Sentence examples for pilot in command of from inspiring English sources

"As far as the eye can see there will always be a pilot in command of an aircraft," says Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal, the director of ASTRAEA.

They were the family of Charles F. Burlingame III, known as Chic, the pilot in command of Flight 77, which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

The "Scooter" or "Bantam Bomber," as the A-4 was nicknamed, was equipped with analog controls that left the pilot in command of the attack plane's every twitch as he guided it down for what remains probably the toughest trick in flying: landing a jet airplane on the tiny deck of an aircraft carrier bobbing about in the ocean, scores of miles from land.

It wasn't much of a secret to investigators that the captain, 47-year-old Marvin Renslow, was not a pilot in command of his game from the moment the cockpit voice recorder was played and his motor-mouth monologue could be heard.

Reid, who was legally the pilot in command for all of Dubroff's flights, was apparently manipulating the controls during this particular flight segment.

But Air Force pilots in command of UAVs have countered this assumption several times.

An instrument rating requires 50 hours of cross country Pilot-in-Command (PIC) and 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument conditions.

Or if flying is your thing, pilots can forego the 3 years of work experience altogether if they have over 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft.

To fly as pilot-in-command under FARs Part 135 requires a minimum of 500 hours of flight time.

Inside, the pilot in command, Rob Martin of XOJet, a private jet company based in San Francisco, went over the essentials: the iPod dock; the touch screen to control the lights and movies; the leather swivel seats that I was told (while treating mine like a Tilt-a-Whirl) cost $30,000 to replace; the satellite phone; the Nespresso machine; the cabinet with the Oreo cookies and Kistler chardonnay.

To work for a major airline, you will typically need 3,000 hours total flight time including at least 1,500 hours multi-engine, and at least 1000 hours as pilot in command (PIC) of turbine (jet) powered aircraft, preferably in scheduled airline flying and in type of aircraft.