Drunk jet pilots get 2 12 and 5 years in prison 1739

On 7-24-05 7:42 PM, in article

I am far closer than that, junkie:

My father and brother are pilots. My father is a retired air force and airline pilot of about 40,000 hours and two overseas tours and 15 years of international commercial flying as a Captain for American Airlines.

He flew the T-33, the F84, the F 86, the B-26, the F-100, the F-101, the F-4, and the C-131 for the US air Force and the DC-6, Lockheed Elektra, the 707, the 747, the DC-10, the 727 and the 767 for American Airlines.

He was also a private flight instructor and ferry pilot for new aircraft before joining the Aviation Cadet program.

My brother trained in the T-33 and T-38 and went on to fly several thousand hours as co-pilot and pilot-in-command of the B-52 stationed in Guam and in Louisiana.

In 1991 he left the Air Force as an Academy graduate with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering and with 6 years of Air Force flight duty to take a job with American Airlines.

He flew the 727 as flight engineer out of Miami to South and Central America and the Caribbean. He then moved to the right seat of the Fokker 100 and on to the right seat of the 737-800, after a stint as Flight Engineer on the DC-10 which led as planned to the pair working a number of Los Angeles Honolulu flights.

My brother, having gotten an MBA while in the Air Force (advanced degrees being required to move beyond captain) earned also a law degree by taking two year-long leaves of absence and working the third year of law school.

He used this degree and his experience to become first a lawyer for International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), the company which invented the industry of aircraft leasing and the owner of the largest commercial airline fleet in the USA, and then a marketing manager.

For the past several years, ending in 2004, he worked (mostly) weekends in the chickenpit and weekdays in the office, leasing commercial aircraft, like the B-777, to the likes of KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines. ILFC is also a launch customer for the airbus 380, and my brother's boss, Steven Udvar-Hazi was alongside the president's of France, Spain, and Great Britain as the aircraft was unveiled this year.

Me, I am too ill with a muscle and nerve disease to be a pilot, but I grew up an air force and airline brat, listening to all the conversations and reading the industry magazines like aviation week and Air Transport World.

But I, too, work in the business. I have worked in the marketing department of KLM where I wrote two books which were circulated to all KLM establishments world wide concerning their revenue or "yield," management system of price and inventory control. This book was a central controlling document within KLM for ten years, or so I was told in 2003 by Onno van den Brink, now CEO of Transavia, but then the revenue manager of the North Atlantic revenue group who gave me the buttignment.

Revenue group North Atlantic was also the first place where Northwest Airlines and KLM physically integrated yield, price and capacity management by locating Northwest employees in Amsterdam and managing yield for all North Atlantic Traffic on both airlines from there. This was going on at the time I was there and the consequences there from had to be included in my book.

I now work for Arke-Fly, the Dutch based airline of TUI, the largest tour operator in the world. Arkefly is a new airline built from the ashes of several bankrupt carriers.

Also, my foreign exchange as a young man, which continues to this day, was to Germany with the family of a Lufthansa pilot who later moved to the charter-airline daughter company of Lufthansa, Condor,in order to fly in the left seat.

He retired 5 years after my father, in 2000.

Lastly, I have spent considerable time using versions 5.x 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x accrue time toward achieving one's Air Transport Certificate.

So you see, I have spent a lifetime in an around the industry,and I am well informed about these things.

ej