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Lithium-ion: is our current situation acceptable? |
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By Rick Hogan
Lithium-ion batteries are known or suspected to have caused several serious inflight fires in the last few years. They've grounded an entire fleet of aircraft. Why are we carrying them, again?
Imagine walking into a store, looking for a new battery for your automobile.
There's a helpful battery salesman standing behind the counter. You tell him what you need and he says, "Oh, you need a battery? I've got a whole wall of tried and true batteries over there that we've been selling for decades. They're reliable and predictable, but not very exciting."
"Now, over here, I've got a really exciting lithium-ion battery," he says, laying it onto the counter with a flourish.
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By Rick Hogan
Would you take a $2 million signing bonus to do the same job you're doing right now, but for a different company? Would you take the new job and turn your life upside down, possibly uproot and relocate, and scrape by financially for a few years if it meant you could double your lifetime earnings and fund a comfortable retirement? That's (literally) the two million dollar question.
I have the privilege of talking to a lot of pilots at different stages of their careers and different levels of the industry. A significant number of these pilots have been sitting in the left seat at regional airlines for a number of years now. A common theme that comes up is whether transitioning to a major airline is really worth it. Regional pay is better than it used to be, work rules and conditions have improved, and the equipment is generally pretty nice. You can have a decent career at this level, and it beats working for a living. |
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Stick pusher stall training |
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On February 12, 2009, Colgan 3407 approached the Buffalo airport. The captain, likely tired nearing the end of the day, began slowing the aircraft and configuring it for a stabilized approach Ten seconds later, the speed was rapidly decreasing and the pitch increasing from the autopilot maintaining altitude.
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Furloughed? 11 tips to guide you |
 Here are 11 tips for those of you who have been unfortunate enough to have been let go from your airline. It's a tough job market, so it's important to stand out and have an effective job search. Here are a few tips to get you started.
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Three ways to get your career going again |
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 [Guest article by Rick Hogan, aviation author and MD11 first officer]
I came up with a new industry term (in my own mind) the other day after talking to a career-frustrated friend of mine: stagnation point. The stagnation point is when you reach a certain level in your career and begin to wonder if you’re ever going to make it to the next step. I can tell you without a doubt I’ve been stuck there before, just like he is, and just like a lot of other people.
One thing I’ve learned about moving past the stagnation point is that creating opportunities isn’t all about grinding out flight time. I was logging nearly 100 hours of multi-engine, multi-crew, turbine PIC month after month for a long time, and not seeing any results. I wanted to scream at the online applications I was obsessively updating, "Hello! Look at all this work I’m doing! Why isn’t my phone ringing?" |
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