American B757 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 370 posts, RR: 0 Posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 721 times:
hello every one, I know this may have been posted before, but forgive me......
I am doing a career project in School and am doing in on being an Airline Pilot. One of the things I have to do, is get a list of vocabulary words, or "terms" used in this profession. Could you please provide me with some words used in your profession? such as "heavy" what does that mean? Also, could you please give me the internet sites for some schools, such as Purdue, and embry riddle.
Iainhol From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 620 times:
Heavy is aplne over 250,000 pounds max take off weight.
A site to go to is http://www.jetcareers.com you will find many terms and a lot of useful info. For the schools just search Yahoo for aviation school.
Iain
Pilot1113 From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 2333 posts, RR: 13 Reply 2, posted (13 years 2 months 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 616 times:
I have a similar project for English. I attend Purdue University http://www.purdue.edu in their Aviation Administration program. If you have any questions, you can email me and I'll be sure to answer them. I have a backlog of emails, but I will be sure to get back to you ASAP.
Some key terms:
- Bounce: Land, then immediately take-off again
- Firewall (verb): To push the engines to their max limit
- Missed: Missed Approach
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