Despite the fact that they are rarely, if ever in any physical danger, the military has considerable difficulty recruiting and retaining drone pilots.Nearly a quarterof Air Force staff who can fly the machines leave the service every year. A lack of respect, fatigue and mental anguish are ...
The 2006 airshow held at Edwards air force base, in the high desert north of Los Angeles, is likely to be the last for a while, as the base struggles with the conflicting requirements for recruiting, operating as a test facility and saving money during a period in which the American ...
In December 2013, theColorado Gazette broke a storyabout OSI recruiting a ring of informants among cadets in the Air Force Academy. The academy scandal, which made national headlines, contained many of the same details as Neubauer’s story: young Airmen still in training recruited to spy ...
0:09:17 – Emirates are recruiting people from around the world to join their expanding crew ranks, both in the cockpit and the cabin. We speak with Andy Longley, Emirates’ Recruitment Manager (Flight Operations) about the airline, their selection criteria & process and career opportunities. ...
Another call for help. This time it was Travis Airforce Base that answered, “Aircraft in distress, do you have a transponder?”. Followed by the same reply of “What is that?”. The transmissions ceased again. For many years, foreign countries and their air carriers have sent primary and...
Recruiting the right people had been important. A chief pilot, chief stewardess, an engineering base, and administration support had all been put in place. In fact, Lasham Airfield in near Basingstoke came complete with a newly re-surfaced runway and hangar space. The RAF had de-commissioned ...
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It’s just me & one of our helicopter crew chiefs that are still there as everyone else had left for an early start to the weekend since the weather was so bad. It’s Klink on the phone & he wants the airplane out & ready to take an Air Force Major General that ran part of the...
Which brings me to an Arkansas Air Guard T-33, ANG 19544, early on the morning of January 1, 1956. It waited on the Guard ramp at Adams Field in Little Rock. Norman McCreary was a rated pilot, full-time Air Force, and was assigned to the ANG as a liaison officer. We had become...