Raise the commercial pilot retirement age and military pilots might spend a few more years in the services.
Fateh notes that over the years researchers have documented problems associated with heads-up displays, including those used by military pilots.
But it would not be until later that the 30-year-old would get chance to do something about it - and in the process revolutionise the way military pilots are trained.
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Clayton Laurie, a historian at the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA, said the spy agency needed highly skilled military pilots to fly the planes over the Soviet Union.
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Small airplanes flying today already are equipped with sophisticated gear that just a few years ago was available only to airline or military pilots: terrain warning systems, synthetic vision, direct GPS navigation, and more.
Military jet pilots inspire spectators with their awe-inspiring skill while showing off the military's capabilities for taxpayers, Muehleisen said.
The current cap of 60 puts pressure on military jet pilots to bail out of the armed services earlier than they might otherwise do because of a fear that their lifetime earnings with a carrier will be unnecessarily limited.
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Geneva, Switzerland-based watch brand, Alpina, was known for manufacturing military watches for pilots that were precise and resistant to shock.
Commercial planes are not as agile as military jets, and civilian pilots are not usually trained in evasion.
In fact, there are some early, early flight simulators on the Boardwalk at Coney Island back in the '40s that the military used to train potential pilots.
So I've appointed a special envoy, a Major General Scott Gration, a very close friend of mine, was one of the top fighter pilots in our military, in our Armed Forces, and somebody who's also an expert on development issues.
The civilian "Women Air Service Pilots" performed important military duties including ferrying combat aircraft from the factories where they were made to various air bases around the country.
The Super Tucano will be used by the military in Afghanistan, primarily by Afghani pilots.
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Because of downsizing, the military, once a fruitful source of pilots for the airlines, is turning out fewer pilots.
Even a cursory assessment of the hurdles unmanned aircraft must overcome before they can displace human pilots from the performance of most military missions suggests the technology has been oversold.
Under a military co-operation deal in 1996, Israeli pilots have been training in Turkish skies.
The four current NASA pilots who can operate the modified 747 are ex-military aviators who split their time flying other planes including zero-gravity aircraft and T-38 supersonic jets.
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The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas.
Women in the military already are allowed to serve on most Navy ships, as combat pilots and in hundreds of support jobs, including those in war zones.
However, the notion that human pilots have no future on the modern battlefield finds few takers among military professionals.
That rise in servicemen and women surviving multiple injuries is the result of improved care and lessons learned from increasing experience with battlefield injuries, from the military medics who treat the wounded on the frontline, to the medical teams and pilots who risk their own lives to evacuate the wounded, and the staff who give emergency care in Afghanistan.
With most Afghan roads too dangerous to drive, military and diplomatic operations in Afghanistan are supported by a range of contract aviation firms, often staffed by expatriate pilots and flight assistants.
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