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Here are AA’s current pay rates - https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/american... Multiply the rate by 1,100 for a ballpark annual salary. This doesn’t include per …

Can confirm.

I'm interested in working in aircraft automation and technology related to single-pilot airline operations, NextGen, etc. (not drones) after completing a CS degree. Does contributi…

An airliner at that altitude would be well outside of any city's airspace.

Interesting that they intercepted after only 15 minutes. Maybe the aircraft had crossed the border without making contact. In the US, airliners accidentally lose contact for close …

Can confirm. I moved from downtown Detroit to Austin. Austin is great but the core of Detroit is also pretty cool (except for the weather). A lot of the popular restaurants/venues …

It'd be interesting if they took over one of the carriers they've contracted with (ATI or Atlas). The company is vehemently against organized labor, yet both companies have unioniz…

Will Amazon eventually buy one of these carriers? Or maybe start their own thing?

If you're going to do it, I'd try to join the industry ASAP. It's a good time to get in, though entry charter jobs can be pretty brutal.

I used to be quite into doing exactly what you've written here. Even wanted to compete in an NPC competition. Your guide is the exact same stuff that's written about ad nauseam eve…

Does anyone here work with the FAA, ATC, commercial aviation, NextGen, etc.? Everything about the National Airspace System seems dated and wrong. Here's a stream of questions that …

Exploiting this aviation-related post to see if any aerospace folks will comment on my two-month old Ask - Ask HN: Why is the National Airspace System so dated? https://news.ycombi…

Change fitness to "bro-fitness".

Does anyone here work with the FAA, ATC, commercial aviation, NextGen, etc.? Everything about the National Airspace System seems dated and wrong. Here's a stream of questions that …

Numerous online application systems have you first upload a resume in .docx, .pdf, .txt, from which an attempt is then made to pre-fill out much of the online application. This doe…

Here's a very similar article from 1990 - http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/world/cia-tie-reported-in-...

They sensationalize this as "worst", but I'm sure many pilots would choose jobs such as this over the mundane task of operating a large airliner if the pay and career prospects wer…

How would a degree like this look in the job market compared to a traditional CS degree? This looks more vocational, which could actually prepare a student better for many software…

I feel like there's something there - updating the training process, making it "cool". Flying yourself is viable if you can afford it, and not as expensive and some might think whe…

Is flying popular among the tech professionals who can afford it? Where do they do their flight training? Typical flight schools seem sort of old school for a place like the Valley…

Automated, yes. Autonomous, no. The plane voices an alert, but the pilots still have to react to it.

It's my understanding that aviation as a hobby is popular among a certain technology set. Are they doing their training with regular flight schools or hiring long-term private inst…

Even the newest airliners of today still triangulate their positions off of radio beacons (VORs) as a backup to the GPS system and also contain an inertial system. GPS being the mo…

Phillips County, Ark., home of Marvell Academy. Founded as a segregationist school in 1966 and still 100% white - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvell_Academy http://marvellacademy…