Captain

Group Captain. A commissioned rank in the RAF equivalent to that of Captain in the Royal Navy and Colonel in the British Army.
A Group Captain may be distinguished by the four rings on his sleeve or the four bars on the shoulders of his greatcoat.

Captain - 1. Any airline pilot wearing four stripes on his sleeve; often found strolling down Lovers' Lane holding his own hand. 2. Decorative dummy often found adorning the bridge of a ship.
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Captain Al Haynes, pilot of United Airlines Flight 232, credits Crew Resource Management as being one of the factors that saved his own life, and many others, in the Sioux City Iowa Crash of July 1989.

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CARPETBAGGER: Code for operation to airdrop supplies underground patriot forces in Western Europe.
Carpet bombing: Concentrated bombing saturation of enemy positions in the way of progressing Allied troops.

Capt: Captain
CAS: Calibrated Airspeed. IAS corrected for air density and compressibility.
CDI: Course Deviation Indicator. The vertical needle of a VOR indicator which shows the aircraft's position relative to the selected radial.

The impaired judgement, decision-making, and flying abilities of the captain and flightcrew due to the effects of fatigue; ...

The original concept of the pilot in command comes from the very distant past when pilots were the captains of ships.

2A from Killingholme; flown by Captains T. C. Pattinson and A. H. Munday, engaged the Zeppelin L.62 at 8,000 feet over the Heligoland minefields. Captain Munday opened fire from the bow cockpit and Sergeant H. R.

There are four ways to fly: the right way, the wrong way, the company way and the captain's way. Only one counts. A good simulator check ride is like successful surgery on a cadaver.

On 14 October 1947, just under a month after the United States Air Force had been created as a separate service, the tests culminated in the first manned supersonic flight, piloted by Air Force Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager in aircraft #46-062, ...

The Jet Stream by Captain Abraham Ackerman
I find that it is a weather phenomenon that is of interest to all pilots.

It will be noted that Commandant Renard proposed to equip this machine with flat blades, thus conforming to the predilection in favour of plane surfaces exhibited by most of the experimenters with aeroplanes already noticed except Captain Le Bris and ...

with Captain Mike Miller, chief pilot for Cathay Pacific Airways. In a sense, the trip was a little uncomfortable for both of us, as my job was to serve as check pilot for Miller, a 20, ...

In days of old, sailing-ship captains would use the trade winds to travel in one direction and use the prevailing westerlies to travel in the other direction.

Dick Keyt, a retired Air Force pilot, American Airlines 777 captain, and an aeronautical engineer, invited me to be the Polen Foundation intern this summer in Granbury, Texas.

The Bell X1 was the first aircraft to break through the sound barrier flown by Captain Charles E Yeager.

Mandatory for captains of Part 121 major scheduled airlines, regional carriers, Part 125 scheduled commuter airlines, and some Part 135 operations. A hiring requirement for many pilot positions in corporate and commercial general aviation flying.

A flight instructor certificate enables you to teach others to fly, and an airline transport pilot certificate is needed to captain an airliner.

Rick is pretty much an airport kid made good. He's flying DC-8 freighters on international routes now, which suites him fine as he earned his captain's stripes the hard way, one hour at a time.

He did stints with the Missouri National Guard and was a captain in the Officers Reserve Corps. In April of 1925 he became an airmail pilot on the St.

Normally, recurrent training is done in an advanced simulator and takes from two to four days, depending on the type of airplane the pilot flies. Pilots in command, or captains, must complete some elements of recurrent training every six months.

See also: Aviation, Flight, Cross, Plane, Maintain