Jun 30th, 2011 at 3:00PM: Last year H.R. 5900 was signed into law requiring the FAA to set a new 1,500 hour minimum flight time requirement for any new airline pilots including small companies hiring co-pilots for their 19-seat airplanes.
The law is mandated to take effect by August of 2013 and was one of the recommendations to come from the Colgan Flight 3407 accident in Buffalo, even though both accident pilots had ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Cockpit Chronicles: Landing an airline pilot job just got harder, but here's one way to do it.
Jun 30th, 2011 at 3:00PM: Last year H.R. 5900 was signed into law requiring the FAA to set a new 1,500 hour minimum flight time requirement for any new airline pilots including small companies hiring co-pilots for their 19-seat airplanes.
The law is mandated to take effect by August of 2013 and was one of the recommendations to come from the Colgan Flight 3407 accident in Buffalo, even though both accident pilots had ...Illinois man works 50 jobs in 50 states
Oct 13th, 2009 at 12:00PM:
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Looking to spice up your work routine? Want to travel the country but don't have the cash to go without a job for an extended period of time? Take a page from Daniel Seddiqui's playbook. Quit your job and contract yourself out to 50 different employers in 50 states over ...Travel the US for 12 weeks and get $50,000
Sep 3rd, 2009 at 1:30PM: TheBigTrip.com, a travel promotion site, is looking to fill an open position. The job: traveling the United States, blogging about the places you visit, and hosting travel webisodes. The job will last twelve weeks and take place in the spring of 2010. Here's the best part - travel expenses and health insurance will be fully funded by TheBigTrip and the selected candidate will receive a salary of ...Roll the dice with "job-loss guarantees"
Apr 12th, 2009 at 12:00PM: It makes a lot of sense right now. You have a job, and you're feeling comfortable in it. You've survived the latest round of layoffs, and it looks like the bleeding has stopped for a while. Or, you're just so stressed out you throw caution to the wind and book a vacation, just so you can recharge a bit. But, you aren't reckless. Because we all live and work in a world at financial risk, you had ...Galley Gossip: Interview with a flight attendant - ME!
Dec 15th, 2008 at 10:30AM: Dear Heather,
I know this is really random and weird, but I'm a Jr in high school and we were given an assignment to write a research paper over a job that we would like to do once we graduate and I have become very interested in becoming a flight attendant. Anyway part of the assignment is to interview someone that does the job we would like to do. It's been very hard trying to find someone that ...Dubai hotel offers meals to those made redundant
Dec 12th, 2008 at 11:30AM: This is definitely one of the most innovative promotions I have seen coming out of Dubai: 3-star Arabian Park Hotel in Dubai is offering free meals to anyone who has lost their job because of the credit crunch. The promotion is not only open to Dubai residents, but anyone in the world who has been fired. All you have to do is bring your redundancy letter with you as proof, and you will have ...Plane Answers: The outlook for pilot hiring
Jul 4th, 2008 at 11:00PM: Welcome to Gadling's feature, Plane Answers, where our resident airline pilot, Kent Wien, answers your questions about everything from takeoff to touchdown and beyond. Have a question of your own? Ask away! When I started Plane Answers a few months ago, one of the most common questions was how a person might go about learning to fly, getting their ratings and gaining enough experience to be ...How to take a year-long vacation without ruining your career
Oct 31st, 2007 at 3:17PM: I just finished reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, in which the author takes a year-long hiatus from her life to travel to Italy, India and Indonesia. In a way, I wish I hadn't read it, because goshdarnit, I want to take a year off. Alas, I am not a best-selling authoress so working is definitely on the agenda for the next few years of my life at least. But taking a year off doesn't ...
