Most of the people that intent to become a pilot had in fact built up the dream since they were young person. As a child they may be attracted by the film or cartoon and dream that he too can end up like them as a pilot. As a child, he thought that he might one day become a fighter pilot, but as he grew older, his mind opened up to many of the other aviation jobs that are available.  When he finish his high school, he may be think about the option of career in aviation. By then he is more informed..

List of Jobs in Aviation

Engineering: Aerospace Engineer or Mechanical Engineer working in manufacture of aircraft or the components.

Aerospace: Manufacturing Worker or Technician in companies like Boeing and Airbus

Aviation Maintenance: Aircraft Mechanic or Licensed Engineer. Either with A&P licenses or the EASA for Europe.

Aviation Maintenance: He may opt to join air force and work in the aircraft carriers.

Aviation Maintenance: Aircraft Mechanic for an airline with worldwide opportunities.

Airline: Aircraft Dispatcher for airlines. A licensed personal

Air Traffic Controller – a highly paid by stressful

Pilot: either in agricultural, or Charter operation or best of all an airlines pilot.

There are in fact many position with the pilot openings, he can be an instructor or trainer or even a simulator trainers.

The opening for pilot job, once you are in the league are wide open. The problem is always how to get in the be accepted, as the value of the pilots are in the experience that they have. The thousand of hours clocked in will make the difference.

This video, the aviators does it, and it provide a clear practical guide,

There are four basic forces acted on the aircraft, the thrust, drag, lift and gravity.

a. The Thrust is the force that pushes the aircraft forward. The aircraft must move forward in order to generate the lift, without forward movement, it will fall off from the sky like a piece of iron. The forward thrust is provided by the engine. When aviation started about 100 years ago, the choice of engine was limited by the technology at that time. It relied on the internal combustion engine like your car. The issue was, how to get maximum power with the limited space and weight allowed. One of the approach was to have the radial piston engine.
With the invention of the jet, the aircraft building changed. The aircraft, commercial and military operate within the hemisphere, with available air and oxygen. There are 2 types of jet engines commonly used, the pure jet and the fan jet.

b. The lift is provided by the wings when the stream of air flow above and below them. Due to the design, the air on top flow faster thus producing lesser pressure. The higher pressure at the bottom pushes the wings upwards.

c. The gravity is the natural tendency for the aircraft to fall towards the ground. The pilot needs to know the center of gravity in so far as to affect the way the aircraft is loaded. Loading to heavy a load in front of the aircraft may cause the center of gravity to go beyond limit and cannot be compensated by the control spaces like the horizontal stabilizers and the elevators.

d. The drag is caused by the structure and has to be overcome by the thrust. It ca be used to slow the aircraft before landing by the use of air brakes or extension of the flaps.

The video provides the basic of aircraft theory of flight, more like an awareness for public

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I did not pay much attention,  until I get home and opened the local paper. There was a write up on the company, or rather I am sure whether it is a company of a single individual running the show.

Being able to earn a living by doing what you love is great. That is what Andreas, the name of the pilot, is doing right now. However flying is expensive, the fuel, the aircraft, the fees to pay to the flying instructor is expensive. However if you can effort the cash and the time, the rewards can be satisfying.

Embraer has raised its forecast for regional jets by 5% to 7,225 deliveries in the 30- to 120-seat sector over the next 20 years.

This will nearly double the global fleet to 8,060 aircraft in 2030. Of the 7,225 new deliveries, more than half – a total of 3,835 – will be for growth while the remainder will replace older jets.

Some 20% of the current fleet will still be operating in 2030.

The airframer’s outlook, released during the Paris air show, reflects a recovery in the industry that is “much faster than expected”, said Embraer (chalet B351).

It predicts demand for 4,125 commercial jets with 91-120 seats and 2,670 for jets with 61-90 seats.

While acknowledging that the market for 50-seat jets has been “impacted” by high fuel costs and poorer yields, Embraer is upbeat over the prospects for this category.

“The aircraft are still essential to feed hubs in the USA and will progressively help to develop regional aviation in other regions,” it said, identifying Latin America, former Soviet states and Africa as candidates.

In the smallest category, 30-60 seats, Embraer foresees a need for only 15 jets for the decade 2011-20 but a surge to 415 in the following 10 years spanning 2021-30.

One-third of all deliveries will go to North America. Europe will take another 23% and China – the fastest-developing market, according to Embraer – will take 13%.

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Reading his blog, I could sense the excitement of the young pilot going through the daily activities and working his way to earn enough experience to earn his license.

.. I was so happy last week. At the end of the week I was scheduled with my my new instructor. And with the new instructor I got a new airplane, a Cessna.  From now I will be flying a Cessna 172R built in the end of the 90′s. I had never flown such a new airplane before, as the Cessnas I had flown were from the 70′s. This Cessna has an engine with fuel injection, so again something new to me, but I have already become accustomed with it.

POSTED 2 AUG 2011

Last Thursday and Friday were really nice and sunny, so I used them to fly solo touch-and-goes and become more familiar with the new Cessna. On Thursday I flew a bit with the instructor, but Friday I was “ridin’ solo”. The circuits were nothing unusual except for an incident, where a Cessna made 2 touch-and-goes on the opposite runway without stating anything or answering on the radio. Luckily my instructor was watching my flight from the ground and spotted the traffic on time, so we didn’t come too close. However the second time he came round I was on final, so a go-around had to be made. This woke me up a bit, but fortunately it all ended well as I’m here writing this blog

My normal schedule was interrupted since last Friday. It has been raining heavily and the winds have been too strong to fly. According to the weather reports, we were having a cyclon overhead us, so maybe I’ll get to fly on the weekend, we’ll see. I still have a bunch of solo traffic circuits to fly so I can’t wait for the nice weather to return, however I’ll be back writing if it keeps on raining

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Limitation of a student pilot. He is allowed to:

- Act as pilot in command in solo flight

- Fly in class B airspace.

- Fly cross country with endorsement for each flight.

Student pilot are not allowed to:

- Carry passengers except for the instructor

- Fly at night or with limited visibility

- keep virtual contact to the ground

- make internationally or become a copilot

- getting paid for flying

The student pilot are not allowed to fly different model of aircraft or fly into other then the base airport.

Prerequisite to become a student pilot.

- Able to read, write and understand English

- minimum age of 16 years

- medically fit

Requirement to fly solo:

- pass the written test

- trained under instruction from qualified pilot.

Had perform the following tasks satisfactorily:

- Preflight check, operating the engine and aircraft systems

- Taxing, surface operations and runup

- Straight and level flight, right and left turns

- Climbs and climbing turns

- Descents and descending turns, with and without flaps

- Flight at various airspeeds

- Full stalls recovery

- Ground reference maneuvers

- Done the Airport Traffic Patterns

- experienced in Normal and Crosswind takeoffs and landings

The Boeing 787′s launched airline, All Nippon Airways is set to start the operation in the third quarter 2011. The aircraft will be fitted with Rolls Royce trend engine. Another milestone will be set with the work on Trent 1000, the engine designed for the -9 stretched version.

Although certificated at a thrust rating of 74,000lb (330kN) in 2007, the “Package A” version of the Trent 1000 is rated at 64,000lb and will equip only the first four ANA 787-8s. The Japanese carrier’s fifth 787 – the first to be operated on international routes and due to be delivered at the end of the year – will introduce the Package B version of the engine rated at 70,000lb.

“Going into service we’re confident we’ve got a mature product that’s had a lot of engineering work and issues fixed, and a lot of flight-test experience,” says Trent 1000 programme director Simon Carlisle. “Clearly the [787] programme has gone much slower than we would have liked, and the engine would have been ready back in 2007. I guess we’ll never know what that would have meant.”

He adds: “No doubt, where we are today we’ve got a more reliable product, because we’ve had time to do a ton more testing on it.”

The Trent 1000 has accumulated more than 1,000 flights and over 2,800 flight hours, and flight testing of the first Package B engine began in May. Package B re-optimises the fan system around a different nozzle geometry, due to an earlier change in the thrust requirement for the 787. Also revised is the air system and low-pressure turbine (LPT).

Trent 1000 chief engineer Andy Geer says: “I don’t think it’s any secret that both engine companies on the 787 programme adopted a very similar style of LPT – high lift, short, low weight, and both of us have had some challenges in getting full aerodynamic efficiency out of that. So we’ve both done an iteration of the design. Package B gets us back within 1% of [fuel burn] specification.”

The UK manufacturer is working with Boeing and ANA to ensure a smooth service entry for the 787.

“I guess that will really start to feel real around the beginning of July when Boeing starts to do route proving,” says Carlisle. “They’ll take the aircraft to Japan and do a ton of testing. We’re absolutely treating that as if it was active service.”

He acknowledges that lessons were learned from the introduction of the Trent 900, powering the Airbus A380, in 2007.

“We’ve got higher levels of support stationed around the world. Initially it’s quite straightforward for us because it’s all Japan and domestic for the first few months. Once ANA take their first international aircraft then we’ll start putting support into Europe and the west coast of North America. That’s people, assets and spare parts backed up by the operations centre in Derby and Boeing’s operational centre in Seattle.”

Carlisle also stresses the importance of getting the company’s public relations strategy right.

“The thing we’re very cognisant of from the A380 is being on top of communicating with the media. We’re expect intense media interest in the aircraft. You can be sure that any squawk or cough will get a lot of attention, so we’ve been spending time on making sure that we will be in a position to handle that in the correct way,” he says.

R-R and rival General Electric – offering its GEnx turbofan for the 787 – have split the market roughly equally in terms of numbers of customers, although GE leads in terms of aircraft numbers.

Geer says the Trent 1000 is within a “cigarette paper” of matching the GEnx on fuel burn, but the Trent’s three shaft architecture will pay dividends in terms of better performance retention.

“Most of the focus on fuel consumption is on new engines,” he says. “An engine is new once in its life and it spends the rest of its 24 years and 364 days not new and you should be more worried about its deterioration characteristics.

He adds: “Over the full life, our experience is that the three-shaft engine is significantly better. But it’s not always easy to sell that in advance.”

Another feature of the Trent 1000 is its intermediate pressure shaft electrical power offtake, which helps to reduce fuel consumption with the engine running at idle, particularly beneficial for short flight cycles.

Next up are Package C improvements for the 787-9.

“We’ve just been going through our concept close-out review, so we’re moving into the detailed design phase for the parts that will go into Package C,” says Geer. “The Package C programme has moved around a bit so we’ll continue to tune when we deliver those solutions to best match the aircraft we are delivering.”

Further away is Boeing’s proposed -10X double-stretch, which would see the introduction of an extensively improved Trent 1000 which would then be offered across all three models of the 787 family.

“We’re just starting that conversation with Boeing so they’re in the process of defining the aircraft and we’re working closely with them to decide what the engine requirements are,” says Carlisle. “At the moment all of that fits well within the capabilities of the Trent 1000. One of our desires is to take some of the learning we’re getting from the XWB and feed that back into the 1000. We see these engines very much as sisters. Technology-wise they’re very equal, despite their different architectures.

“Our goal here is to make sure that when we do that, we design an engine that covers the whole family. Once Boeing nail down their requirements for the -10X then we’ll respond with our offering for the whole family.”

R-R has begun manufacturing Package B Trent 1000s, which will power ANA’s longhaul 787s

The Package B engine features a re-optimised fan system

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Undergoing training to become a pilot is always exciting. Being young and forward looking, the days are always fill up with excitements, confident of the future..

The spring semester is coming to an end and exams are on the way. I still continue flying and have flown a few cross-country flights in the past week with some traffic circuits. We had 20 degrees Celsius for a few days and it felt like summer, but now the weather is more moderate and I’m still waiting for the clouds to get some real IFR experience.

Yesterday I had my first simulator session. We have a FNPT II simulator and use it for instrument flight and MCC training. The simulated aircraft are Piper Seneca V and Beechcraft King Air. It’s pretty neat and I will have another session tomorrow. Besides flying and simulator training I still have to keep learning for the exams.  Waiting for June now

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