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Is this a realistic plan to become an airline pilot?

  • Posted on August 7, 2011 at 12:01 am

Here is a short outline of my plan. is it realistic?

-Get my PPL after high school.

-Go to college to get a bachelors (probably in accounting or electrical engineering).

-Work at my job that i get the bachelors in. according to 1salary.com entry level accountants make 40,000 a year. so i would work there for about 2 years and save my money like crazy. I’ll be living with my parents during all this by the way.

-so now ill have about over 60 grand. I will quit my job and head off to flight school. and do the ATP 90 day fast track.

-Flight instruct for 2 years or so.

-Then at about 26 I will apply at a regional airline.

-Ill then move out. Find a cheap super cheap apartment.

-and then after that well you know how it goes. work there for over 10 years and then start applying for the big boys.

so is it realistic?
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Please write your answer on the second question i wrote. there is more detail on that one.

Can you use the iPhone GPS in flight on an airplane to track your position?

  • Posted on August 5, 2011 at 9:37 pm

If so, do airlines allow it?

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Getting Custody of My Kids?

  • Posted on August 5, 2011 at 12:00 am

My ex-husband kidnapped my kids seven years ago. I didn’t know where they were for a long time, but fortunately I tracked them down in Switzerland. (Lucky for me I worked for an airline and didn’t have to pay for those scores of transatlantic flights!) Even though he lived in Switzerland and I lived in the US, the jurisdiction for the proceedings was in Croatia (VERY long story). I got the kids back, but it was only a "physical custody" situation. The authorities in Croatia assured us that a more permanent custody arrangement would be put into force.

Numerous enquiries and seven years later seems an adequate indication that nothing further is going to develop in that quarter.

Here is the problem: My ex is moving back to the US (so he says – he is very untrustworthy) in August. I know he is going to take to pull something again. Just what, I ‘m not certain of. He’s only going to do it.

As of right now, I don’t even know where he is, if he’s in Switzerland or anyplace else. All attempts at communcation with him have been futile; he doesn’t respond to phone, post, or email.

Is it even possible to gain custody here in the US (Pennsylvania specifically, for me) with an absentee parent? Other factors include the fact that the kids have not lived with him for five (5!) years, and over the past 5 years I’ve probably gotten a grand total of 00 worth of child support from him. (Breaking it down, that’s about a month. Sheesh.)

I filed for income taxes a little later this year, and was expecting a reasonably large sum. Well, he beat me to the punch (he’s a US citizen now, therefore he has to report on his earnings made overseas.) He CLAIMED THE KIDS AS HIS DEPENDENTS. Now, as I’ve mentioned, they have not even LIVED with him in five years, and he contributes zilch toward their upbringing. (As I said, a total of about 00 in the past five years.) As if that wasn’t enough, the Swiss government – and I’m not sure how this works – essentially pays you for having kids. All this time that he’s been getting money for MY kids, he’s been pocketing it instead of sending it along to us.

I can prove that the kids have been with me this whole time.

Do I have a shot at getting custody? Or will the courts refuse to give it to me till we somehow locate the father? I have NO idea where he is…for all I know, he is still in Switzerland, or Siberia, Greenland or Tasmania…you get the idea.

The last time he and I spoke, on the phone in December, he said that he was going to "take" the kids again if I didn’t straighten up..

Can anyone give me an inkling as to what I can expect? The last time I tried to get custody there was a royal s#!tstorm and he disappeared shortly thereafter. The problem there occurred was that I had willingly allowed him to take the kids to see his dad in Croatia. (I am dead serious — he had NEVER given me a reason to distrust him before, despite his general asininity.) When I tried to establish custody, the authorities pointed out that I had willingly let them leave the country.

But anyway. I want to know if I would be able to establish custody with him out of the picture, seeing as we don’t know his whereabouts at the mo, or would I still hit a roadblock?

Can anybody help me here?/make suggestions? My nerves are totally shot, especially since I can’t afford a top-notch laywer.
Thanks in advance for those of you who take the time to read this, and threefold thanks for those who answer it as well….

What are the chances a lost item is found and returned to me by United Airlines?

  • Posted on August 4, 2011 at 2:24 am

On May 21st, 2009, I was aboard United flight 840 from Sydney to LAX and left my digital camera on my seat. I’m pretty sure I left it there because I do remember taking pictures on the plane. When I got home I realized that it was gone. I tried contacting United’s lost & found by e-mailing and leaving messages on their answering machine but needed to go to the airport to talk to a live person. I was told that it normally takes a day for the cleaning crew to bring down items found on flights and that in some cases it may take longer, but also that nothing from flight 840 was brought to lost & found by the cleaning crew yet. Is it likely that there was nothing left behind from a 14 hour flight? It has been 3 days now and I haven’t heard anything. I tried tracking where the plane went afterward and it looks like after landing, the cleaning crew had about an hour to clean up the plane before departing to Chicago. After Chicago, the plane went back to Sydney and then back to LAX. Knowing this, is there still a chance that the camera might show up? How honest are the cleaning crews? I have just contacted the Chicago and Sydney lost and found for United so there is hope there. Just wanted any input from anyone who might know anything about this. Anything else left for me to do? I have over 600 pictures missing. I got engaged on my trip too…. Totally bummed out! Thank you very much for the help!

American Airlines lost my bag?

  • Posted on August 3, 2011 at 4:50 am

I had something very important to me, I mean EXTREMELY important to me in there. I have cried for a while, I’ll admit. They said most bags are located in a days time, but I am extremely anxious that I’ll never see it again. My flight was a full one, and it came in at 5:00 last night. I have the tracking tag on it and the code, as well as my address, and I keep checking the website, but so far, no luck. I am scared to death it’s gone forever. Help me! What do I do??
I mean the tag I put on it had my name, address, zip code, and cell phone number.

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Is this a realistic plan to become an airline pilot?

  • Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:14 am

Here is a short outline of my plan. is it realistic?

-Get my PPL after high school.

-Go to college to get a bachelors (probably in accounting or electrical engineering).

-Work at my job that i get the bachelors in. according to 1salary.com entry level accountants make 40,000 a year. so i would work there for about 2 years and save my money like crazy. I’ll be living with my parents during all this by the way.

-so now ill have about over 60 grand. I will quit my job and head off to flight school. and do the ATP 90 day fast track.

-Flight instruct for 2 years or so.

-Then at about 26 I will apply at a regional airline.

-Ill then move out. Find a cheap super cheap apartment.

-and then after that well you know how it goes. work there for over 10 years and then start applying for the big boys.

so is it realistic?

Last time i asked it this is what i got: "sounds selfish" and "do only it if you love flying" and one guy thinks i should get a aviation realated degree.

so lets get it clear. while living with my parents the only thing im not paying for is the place where i will be living. Ill be paying for everything. I will also not be a burden on them. because even right now at a young age i help out around the house (with NO allowance).

has for the love flying part… do you really think i would go through making 10,000 dollars a year if i didnt love flying? nuff said.

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lost luggage?

  • Posted on August 1, 2011 at 9:38 am

my grandma and I just had a flight from Warsaw on LOT airlines to JFK and two of out suitcases were missing. They said that they will deliver it the next day and we got one of the suitcases . The suitcase lock was broken and half the things were missing from inside. another weird thing is that the things that were in this suitcase were supposed to be in the one we did not get. and everything was not packed as we had it and of course many things were missing. I tried calling the numbers they told us to call but they have no information about the suitcase and they dont know where it is , in other words no way to track it.\
we have no idea what to do, or who to call.does anyone have any ideas of what we should do, and how many days is the maximum until it counts as officially lost.

PLEASE HELP US SOME HOW>

Probability Distribution word problem (standard deviation and mean) help pls!!?

  • Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Jamieson Airlines has a central office that takes reservations for all flights flown by the airlines. The calls recievd during any week are approx. normally distributed, with a mean of 12,000 and a standard deviation of 2,500.
a. During what percentage of weeks does the airline receive more than 11,000 calls?
b. During what percentage of weeks does it receive fewer than 12,300 calls?
c. During what percentage of weeks does it receive between 10,800 and 13,400 calls?
d. During the past year, the manager of the cenral office has kept track of the number of calls received each week. SHe has determined that the smallest number of calls was 10, 800 and the largest number of calls was 13,400. If the calls received are normally distributed, determine the mean and standard deviations this data suggests.

I understand if you cannot do all 4, but please show the work for what you can do, this way I can try to figure it out. I need this one for class tomorrow….Thanks!

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need help on two question on stat 151?

  • Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:26 pm

hi i need help on these question, i think i know how to do them but i just need more conformation.

The management in a large computer company believes that workers are more productive if
they are happy with their jobs. To keep track of the workers’ satisfaction with their job, surveys
are conducted by management regularly. A recent survey reveals the mean job satisfaction
score for all workers at this company was 14.05 (on a scale of 0 to 20) and the standard
deviation was 2.01. Assume the job satisfaction scores of workers are normally distributed.

c) A worker with a score of 9 or less is considered to be very unhappy with their job. What
percentage of the workers is very unhappy with their jobs?
and
__An airline manager estimated that, on the average, 9% of the passengers flying across the
Atlantic experience some airsickness. What is the probability that on a transatlantic flight of
160 passengers, at least five will experience some airsickness?

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Is this a good plan to become an airline pilot?

  • Posted on July 29, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Just a quick outline of my current plan. I’m 14 btw so have a lot of time to think about this. but this is what i came up with:

-do good in high school. aim for the 4.0. I will play baseball (I already do) and track. Apply for the A US academy like USAFA or USNA. if i don’t make it ill go the civil route which is this:

-Get a ppl summer before college. Try to get around 100 hours by the time i finish college.

-go to college and get a bachelors in Accounting.

-Accountant for about 2 years to pay for flight school. loan from parents maybe if i dont make enough has accountant.

-maybe go to 90 day fast track at ATP. Probably not ATP maybe a local FBO. anyways lets say i do go there. I work has a flight instructor for over a year to earn time.

-apply at a regional airline. And go from there to earn time to then work for a major airline.

Whatya think?