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Presents an overview of twenty-three careers in the field of transportation, including job duties and responsibilities; personal and professional requirements; suggestions for exploring the occupation; information on employers, salary, and employment outlook; and additional sources. ... Read more

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• The latest information on a field of interest
• Training and educational requirements for each career
• Salary statistics for different positions within each field
• Up-to-date professional and Internet resources
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Find the Best-Paying and Most-Fulfilling Jobs in Professional Piloting

Customer Reviews (6)

Must Have
I am a soldier who is looking into becoming a pilot when I get out. I do not know anything about the professional piloting industry, so I decided this book would be a good place to start, and it was a great choice. It gives very deep insight into every type of professional piloting out there, including regional, national, and international airline piloting, as well as corporate/business piloting, fractional and charter piloting, and contract piloting. The author has sections devoted to these different categories and there are many interviews with pilots in each of the categories, as well as insight into the top companies and corporations in each. There is also a chapter devoted to choosing the right flight school and a chapter on how to conduct interviews once you are qualified, and more. The only bad thing about this book is that there are some parts that get into all the technical pilot lingo that a newbie like me does not understand, but that will come with the education, and then I can read the book again, too easy. I highly recommend this book to any individual who wants to get paid to fly.

Very helpful career book
Purchased this for a young man planning to apply for a pilots job, and he told me it was very helpful.

Every High School Library Needs This Book!
It's a truth that most every young person's interest in aviation will lead them to consider flying as a career.Rob encapsulates for them the essence of how to get started on the path to a professional pilot career.While there are a lot of books on the subject, the Professional Pilot's Career Guide not only manages to cover just about every variation of how one can get paid to fly, but also gives them a dose of reality about the good, the bad, and the ugly (including the "Order of the Sleepless Knights" aka Freight Dogs).What really makes Rob's book interesting and readable is the sidebar slice-of-life stories about real people "living the dream".My opinion is that this book belongs on the shelf of every high school library in the country.

The Professional Pilots' Career Guide is not just for wanna-be's and newbies.There is a lot of valuable information for those who maybe considering shifting career gears by branching off into a different flying job.The book also includes a section on the do's and don'ts of interviewing for the job and on resources available on the Internet.

Anyone interested in getting started (or moving up) in their professional pilot career should consider reading this book to get the edge on their competition.

A must buy for future pilots
This is a must have book for any future commercial pilots.The writing style has something to be desired, but he gets his points across.

IT'S IN THERE
I was a fighter pilot in the USAF,USAirways captain for 28 years, and have written 5 books on airline safety. Since I have been flying for over 70 years, I thought I knew something about aviation , this book proved me wrong. First I want to congratulate Robert Mark on the fact that he was an Air Traffic Controller for 10 years, that got my attention quickly. Rob has over 6,000 hours in the air and has produced a remarkable book.

If you want a job as a pilot, don't know whether to try for a small or large carrier - Wonder about prerequisites to fly airlines, wonder about pay scales on small or large carriers---Its In There
Wonder about how to look and act at a job interview - Important websites for pilots--Its In There.

I only wish that I had read this book before I applied for my first flying job, it would have helped me to find the proper track, and follow it.

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This is a guide to working on cruise ships and yachts. It covers how to find jobs in these areas or ways in which to pursue a career in these unusual settings. The guide is used by colleges and universities to help advise students. ... Read more

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Guide to employment on Cruise Ships. ... Read more

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The commercial aviation industry is a major part of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and a key contributor to the nation's economy. The industry is facing the effects of a reduced role by the military as a source of high-quality trained personnel, particularly pilots and mechanics. At the same time, it is facing the challenges of a changing American workforce. This book is a study of the civilian training and education programs needed to satisfy the work-force requirements of the commercial aviation industry in the year 2000 and beyond, with particular emphasis on issues related to access to aviation careers by women and minorities. ... Read more

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Many companies, suppliers and parts manufacturers must ship the fastest way to meet the intense deadlines which are commonplace now in American industry - and air freight, also known as air express, is the quickest way of all to ship.

Every day, thousands of airlines, flying out of dozens of airfields throughout the United States, carry loads of cargo in their holds to destinations all over the country and indeed throughout the world. And thousands of air express carriers, such as Cannonball in Chicago, advertise guaranteed delivery of freight by the following day for all materials that it picks up. The shipper may have to pay a premium for such swift service, but in many cases, such as the situation of the intense pressure to ship out parts described above, it is happy to do so. Also, there are hundreds of companies which supply highly perishable food stuffs - fruits and vegetables, meat, fish and other commodities to distant destinations, which must arrive in the quickest way possible to keep their freshness.

Where companies are seeking to hold down their inventories of costly parts and equipment, they know that by using air freight, they can order the exact number of components required and still be assured of receiving the goods in time. This explains why in recent years the amount of air freight shipped annually in the United States has expanded to over 12 million ton miles, an increase of roughly 4 million ton miles of cargo from just a few years ago. A ton mile is one short ton carried one mile. Since 1930 which was the first year airliners began carrying cargo, the amount of air freight carried has risen sharply.

In fact it's hard to imagine the United States without air freight. Residents of Chicago and Philadelphia enjoy fresh oranges flown in from California. Computers in Detroit run on software that arrives daily from Phoenix; and auto makers in Detroit outfit their cars with parts arriving from all over the country.

This in turn cuts the cost of inventories and warehousing which in turn reduces the cost of production. Delivery as you need it is helping U.S. manufacturers to keep up with foreign competition. And it continues to expand the importance of air freight in the economy.

Today giant airliners carry passengers and cargo between major cities throughout the world. And planes and helicopters speed medicine and other supplies to the furthest reaches of land and jungle. The air express industry has grown enormously in the last decade or so, and the end of such growth is nowhere in sight. Air freight is still the preferred route for speed and when you consider that many air freight carriers advertise that they can deliver any shipment the following day to any point in continental United States you can see why.

Regardless of whether the cargo is foodstuffs, steel, books or machinery, sales agents, rate and billing clerks and customer and sales service agents offer their knowledge of tariffs, carriers and routes. This repository of experience and know how is unlikely to be replaced by computers or technology in the foreseeable future. So the prospects for expansion in this field are excellent.

This new Careers Ebook contains a wealth of unbiased information about careers in air freight, based on the latest national surveys. Careers Ebooks cover attractive and unattractive sides, opportunities, education necessary, personal qualifications required, earnings, descriptions of different job specialties, first person accounts by those in the field, and how to get started; including practical advice on what to do now. There are live links to schools and colleges, associations, periodicals and other sources of reliable information. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Defense Transportation Journal, published by National Defense Transportation Association on June 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1088 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Professional development & career choices.
Author: Irv Varkonyi
Publication: Defense Transportation Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: National Defense Transportation Association
Volume: 65Issue: 3Page: 28(2)

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