How do Pilots and tower communicate?
Q. I want to know how they communicate.. what does the pilot have to do to get through to the tower? and when a plane flys over or near an airport will the pilots communicate with their ATC? and if yes what do they say? And how do they link up?
Asked by Eddies Boi - Sat Jan 27 10:16:01 2007 - - 9 Answers - 1 Comments

A. Hi im an ATC from La Aurora International Airport This is an example: well first of all you need to fill a flight plan then we read it on the FDD computer (Fly Data Displayer) the they(aircraft) call for clearance if its an Instumental flight plan then they call ground control here is 121.9 MHZ everything starts like this: La Aurora Ground N7144Q... N7144Q La Aurora Ground Go Ahead... La Aurora Ground this is N7144Q requesting pushback and start engines... then i say N7144Q roger pushback and start engines apoved advice ready to taxi N7144Q: I'll call you when ready to taxy..., then when he is ready he says: N7144Q im ready to taxy...then i say N7144Q Taxy west (it depends the aircraft position it could be east) taxyway to… [cont.]
Answered by Happy girl - Sat Jan 27 21:20:26 2007

What is good about being a pilot? Is there any good movies about airline pilots?
Q. I am interested in becoming a pilot. I want to watch some videos of airline pilots and what exactly they do. I also want to know what is good about becoming one? Where is the best place in the usa to go college to become an airline pilot? What airlines are hiring? is it going to be hard to get a job?
Asked by Patrick - Sun Dec 17 09:54:39 2006 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The good thing about being a pilot is first the joy and thrill of flying, the travel and experiences. There are good paying flying jobs but it can take you a long time and years of lower pay to get there. The bad thing about flying for the airlines is the travel and time away from home, some people do not like this time away from families. Also, with the economy and how the airlines are hurting it is getting harder to get hired into an airline as many have cut back on the amount of pilots they have. So you have many of the furloughed airline pilots looking elsewhere for work and they move into the corporate and charter flying jobs. Some good flight school colleges are Western Michigan University, www.wmich.edu, University of North… [cont.]
Answered by MIPilot - Sun Dec 17 10:20:12 2006

How do pilots plan their descent to the airports to land?
Q. Can someone please tell me how pilots plan their descent to their destination airport or how they plan their approach on final to land exactly on the runway threshold. Could someone please give me an example. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.
Asked by Bage881 - Thu Jul 19 23:20:03 2007 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments

A. As a general rule we plan on taking 3 miles to descend 1,000 feet. Suppose I'm flying at 31,000 feet and am flying to Milwaukee (elevation 780 feet above sea level). I'm flying roughly 30,000 feet above landing elevation so I'll need 30 x 3 = 90 miles for the descent. I do this during the entire descent, constantly keeping track of my height above the destination airport and my distance from the field. (Of course the FMS is keeping track of this, too, but I like to keep my head in the game. It's a bad habit to blindly let the machine fly your airplane). A quick rule of thumb to calculate required rate of descent is to make your descent rate equal to 5 times your groundspeed. An easy way to calculate this is to take your groundspeed, [cont.]
Answered by Jim - Thu Jul 19 23:55:30 2007