Pilots Don't Just Fall From Heaven - Softcover

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In Pilots Don’t Just Fall From Heaven, Rudi Roedig and illustrator Karl-Friedrich Krohn have collaborated to take an oftentimes humorous look at how to become a pilot—European style. In the United States (and many other countries), almost every airline pilot has to work his or her way up through the ranks. Typically, anyone who is aiming to fly a big airliner starts out after flight school as a flight instructor, overworked and underpaid, putting in incredibly long hours—in order to qualify to work even longer hours as an executive pilot on a small business jet. Next comes a job with a commuter airline. And on the horizon, for those who happen to be in the right place at the right time, waits that dream job with one of the big airlines. The majority of European pilots do it this way, too—including Rudi Roedig, himself today a widebody pilot on international routes. However, that’s not the only way. In Germany and (and several other European countries), those few who pass an extremely competitive selection process stand a good chance to have it all handed to them on a silver platter: flight training with a major airline from the very beginning . . . and a post-graduation job guarantee. But as Roedig points out, even those who don’t make the grade and snare one of those coveted training spots with a major company like Lufthansa may still be hired—straight out of (self-sponsored) flight school—by one of the many holiday airlines, thus becoming a Boeing-737 or Airbus-320 pilot at the ripe old age of twenty-three.

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