Checkride
This Pilot's Life
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Spend a career with United Airlines, and it seemed you were always in the Denver area. Not just the second largest passenger hub on the system, Denver was home to UAL’s training center. The epicenter of a pilot’s world, the center (DENTK) housed the classrooms, aircraft simulators and systems mockups for every aircraft in the fleet. Ground school instructors, Flight instructors and Standards check pilots were gathered here with every accruement deemed necessary to further pilot training. The individual aircraft manuals were written, edited, revised, and printed here. The Vice-president for training resided here, while every other V.P. labored in the executive offices a thousands miles to the east in Elk Grove Village, Illinois just northwest of Chicago’s O’Hare airport. A pilot’s training began in new hire school and continues throughout a career. Each advancement along a career path was preceded by another visit to TK. Successfully gain any position on a new airplane and six weeks of classroom lectures, hands on systems analysis, and simulator training to proficiency followed.
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About the Book
This book covers a span of over fifty years in aviation. From hand started light airplanes, flying off grass strips to wide bodied jets spanning the continents, from the CAA to the FAA and from regulation to de-regulation. Told from the viewpoint of a green kid hanging around the local airport to a veteran major airline Captain
About the Author
The author learned to fly in the early fifties graduating to teach other young pilots, before landing a job flying DC-3’s with a regional airline. He bridged the gap between unpressurized piston aircraft to jet turbo-prop airliners. When the first turbo-jet airliners were introduced to the traveling public, now with a major air carrier, he was in the fifth class on the new Boeing 727. Nearly thirty years later he retired flying DC-10-30’s to Hawaii as line check airman for United Airlines. Unable to live without wings, he volunteered for air/sea rescue looking for Cuban rafters off the Florida Keys. Eventually he finished up flying a King Air turbo-prop for his county Sheriff.