Tuesday, October 21, 2008

FLY HIGH



FLY HIGH

This article is about different kinds of pilots they have in the U.S Navy. These pilots are paid for the adventures they undertake in their daily work. There are many types of pilots. As for example there are pilots that fly passengers to another country or across the world. Other pilots fly for the military. Some other pilot cargo planes, they carry packages across the world at anytime of the day.

From Student to Teacher
Flight School Owner/ Flight Instructor
This part of the article tells us on how Barrington Irving starts dreaming of becoming a pilot. Barrington did not know what to do about his career. He did not think much about it. One day he was working, when he saw Capt. Gary Robinson who worked for the United Airlines. Barrington and Gary began talking to each other. After talking to Gary Barrington now know what to do for his career, He wanted to become a pilot. As for his dream Barrington started to start his dream. So he became a pilot.

Testing, Testing
Test pilots
The pilot’s tester Heather Ross was one of the first to pilot the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is designed to carry between 210 and 330 passengers. “My pilot job is unique in the world of piloting careers,” says Heather. “Most pilots train [on] and fly only one model of airplane at a time, but a Boeing test pilot trains and flies many or all the Boeing airplane models.” In this process Heather has to test everything (depending on the system that is being tested).

Flying to Your Destination
Commercial Airline Pilot
Prince Gillenwater, who was 11 years old, he played in the outfields on his Little League team. He was not watching the ball, but he was studying the planes overhead. When he got older he realized he career was not becoming a flyer, but to be in the medical fWhen he tried to get into the medical field he did not get in. So he join the U.S Navy and became a pilot. “Other medical jobs didn’t interest me,” says Prince.

1 comment:

Kyle said...

i liked your blog. dont you think it would be great to be a pilot! awesome job!!!