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Career Profile: Commercial Pilot

Written by admin on Feb 19th, 2008 | Filed under: Aviation industry careers

The Career Information and Profile of the Commercial Pilot will be described in this article. A Commercial Pilot flies aircrafts. These aircrafts can be fixed wings or rotary wing machines. A large percentage of all pilots are commercial pilots.

Before taking off, the pilot has to do the followings:

1. Prepare flight plan.

2. Check for aircraft airworthiness.

3. Check that fuel and cargo are safely loaded.

4. Assess the weather condition.

Once in the air, many a aircraft flies itself using electronic automatic piloting. Being a pilot is many a young boys’ dream. Many pilots are being hired by airlines and major carriers of goods. For those flying in large jet airliners, they are usually part of a small team of pilots. Most airline pilots begin as copilot. Pilots not only operates aircraft, they may also have to supervise other aircraft crew members.

To be a pilot, one must hold a professional pilot’s license. There is also a minimum age limit for the license.



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One Response to “Career Profile: Commercial Pilot”

  1. Hello,

    Just wanna say thank you for the nice information on pilot job description.

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