How to become a Pilot ?

Students from flight school will generally graduate with both a CPL (Commercial Pilot Licence) and an IR (Instrumental Rating).

Pilots eat different meals to avoid food poisoning.

Together, these combine to make a Frozen ATPL. In order to ‘unfreeze’ your ATPL, you will need to accumulate 1500 hours of flight time, in which case you will be issued with a full ATPL. Once you have achieved this, you will be qualified to captain commercial planes yourself.

Hajimi Fuji volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused acceptance because he had a wife and two young children.

Prior to taking any training, it is recommended that you take the CAA Class One Medical Test.

To honor his wish his wife drowned her two young girls and drowned herself. Hajimi then flew as a kamikaze pilot, meeting his death on the 28th May 1945.

All pilots must pass this medical check in order to achieve their ATPL.

Two paragliders were sucked into a thunderstorm during practice. The updraft was so powerful that one pilot was sucked up to 19,000 feet and killed by a lightning strike.

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The pilot of the second glider passed out from the altitude, but woke up still airborne and covered in ice.

Module based training. This is offered by the majority of training providers, and is carried out in large segments, with gaps in between.

The course incorporates both practical and theoretical based training, the latter of which can either be completed within the classroom setting or as long distance learning course; giving the student time to work in between.

Under certain conditions, a pilot not trained to fly by gyroscopic instruments can enter into a death spiral, believing that he is maintaining straight flight and completely unaware that he even turning.

The module based training is a more affordable option for students, as it allows them to hold down a full time job whilst they are taking it.

Colin McGregor, the brother of Star Wars actor Ewan McGregor, is a British RAF pilot and goes by the call-sign “Obi Two”.

However, in order to undergo this training route you must already hold a private pilot license, and have completed 150 hours+ of flying before the practical element of the course begins.

A Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WWII returned 20 years later to present his family’s 400-year-old sword as a symbol of regret.

The modular route requires the participant to take more initiative, as it requires greater amounts of self-discipline and study.

A pilot was actually recorded saying “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue” shortly before his plane crashed.

Integrated courses. This course is more intensive than the modular training, and takes around 18-20 months to complete.

The course will be taken with a flight training provider, and like the modular training, incorporates a mixture of theoretical study and practical flying based experience.

During the Berlin Blockade in 1948, a pilot who was doing supply drops for the civilians became known as ‘Uncle Wiggly Wings’ after he started dropping candy and chocolate from his plane and wiggling his wings so people knew it was him

Unlike the modular training, you won’t need any previous experience for this route.

Bob Barker was trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2 but wasn’t sent to a fleet squadron in time to fight

The majority of providers are experienced in taking on all kinds of students, whether they have zero hours of flight time or 100+ hours.