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    Pilots On Food Stamps: An Inside Look At Why Your Flight Was Cancelled
    Pilots On Food Stamps: An Inside Look At Why Your Flight Was Cancelled
    Pilots On Food Stamps: An Inside Look At Why Your Flight Was Cancelled
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    Pilots On Food Stamps: An Inside Look At Why Your Flight Was Cancelled

    By Ben Mandell

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    “Incredible!” you might say, “Pilots qualifying for food stamps. Surely you must be joking!”

    We see airline pilots in their pressed suits and crisp shirts as they walk through the airport terminals, hear their calm, friendly voices informing passengers of flight time and weather conditions on the plane and assume they are making six figure salaries, or somewhere close to that.

    Wrong, wrong, wrong!

    This book is a true to life account of the current pilot crisis facing the nation; its origin, the current status and what needs to be done to fix this problem.

    If your Physician put in six to eight years of medical education, training and internship in order to provide you with the best, up to date medical care, would you expect him or her to be paid less than that of a fast food worker with much less training?

    Would it be fair if the physician’s salary was calculated only on the actual time he or she was in the office or in surgery with the patient, without taking into consideration the doctor’s time spent on patient telephone calls, availability for the times on standby when the doctor was “on call”, travel to and from the clinic, hospital or office as well as supervisory and administrative duties?

    Why should a pilot only get paid for his or her actual flight time?

    Is it fair for airline passengers to have their flights canceled and planes grounded because there are not enough qualified pilots?

    As we read this book we must ask ourselves if we will garner the political will to demand better wages for our pilots and if we will hold our elected officials accountable for ensuring adequate airline and passenger safety. And then we must act to make sure the job gets done.

    A Must Read!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBen Mandell
    Release dateSep 20, 2014
    ISBN9781310918490
    Pilots On Food Stamps: An Inside Look At Why Your Flight Was Cancelled
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    Ben Mandell

    Ben Mandell is a commercial pilot and a leader in the aviation industry. Ben has testified before governmental commissions regarding the flight training industry and has pushed for consumer protection laws to insure that pre-paid student flight school tuition is safely protected.Ben has a unique understanding of how all of the pieces fit together within the aviation industry and has been instrumental in helping pilots and aviation employees at all job levels within the industry.Ben works tirelessly within the industry to help improve the quality of life for everyone connected within it. This book is a direct result of his desire to help prospective pilots avoid the bad guys and keep their career on track.

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      We all have this view towards airline industry to be rosy and prosperous with less work. In reality this is just not true. Pilots spend a lot of time and money training themselves to be picked up by commercial airlines. This doesn't end here either, they have to work even harder to complete the flight hours for their pay. There is a lot of going on in the background of this industry and this book gives you view to that side. Give this book a read and I am sure you'll find out more about Airline industry than what media portrays it to be.

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    Pilots On Food Stamps - Ben Mandell

    PILOTS ON FOOD STAMPS

    An Inside Look At Why Your Flight Was Cancelled

    __________

    Ben Mandell

    ~~~

    E-Book Edition

    PILOTS ON FOOD STAMPS

    Copyright © 2014 by Amazing Publishing, Inc.

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

    ISBN 978-0692266304 (Print Edition)

    ebook Edition, License Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Dedication

    This book is dedicated to the professional current and future airline pilots who transport millions of people safely and efficiently across the United States every month.

    Table of Contents

    Dedication

    Foreword

    Preface

    Introduction

    1 The Planes Had To Be Parked

    2 Your Pilot Is a Trained Professional

    3 Twenty Eight Dollars And Eight Cents

    4 Shall We Stay Or Shall We Go?

    5 Endeavor Air

    6 Upgrading to the Majors

    7 How Pilots Are Paid

    8 Pilots Are A Dime A Dozen

    9 How The Aviation Industry Jumped The Shark

    10 Airline Executives in Denial

    11 Mainline, We Have A Problem

    12 The Sky Is Not Looking Good Out West

    13 Where Is All Of This Going?

    14 Why Airline Executives Do The Things That They Do

    15 Upgrade Times and Pay

    16 There Is Only One Solution

    Foreword

    Incredible! you might say, Pilots qualifying for food stamps. Surely you must be joking!

    We see airline pilots in their pressed suits and crisp shirts as they walk through the airport terminals, hear their calm, friendly voices informing passengers of flight time and weather conditions on the plane and assume they are making six figure salaries, or somewhere close to that.

    Wrong, wrong, wrong!

    This book is a true to life account of the current pilot crisis facing the nation; its origin, the current status and what needs to be done to fix this problem.

    If your Physician put in six to eight years of medical education, training and internship in order to provide you with the best, up to date medical care, would you expect him or her to be paid less than that of a fast food worker with much less training?

    Would it be fair if the physician’s salary was calculated only on the actual time he or she was in the office or in surgery with the patient, without taking into consideration the doctor’s time spent on patient telephone calls, availability for the times on standby when the doctor was on call, travel to and from the clinic, hospital or office as well as supervisory and administrative duties? Why should a pilot only get paid for his or her actual flight time?

    Is it fair for airline passengers to have their flights canceled and planes grounded because there are not enough qualified pilots?

    As we read this book we must ask ourselves if we will garner the political will to demand better wages for our pilots and if we will hold our elected officials accountable for ensuring adequate airline and passenger safety. And then we must act to make sure the job gets done.

    A Must Read!

    Preface

    Poverty wages are the reason we currently face a pilot shortage in the United States.

    In January 2014, airlines publically announced for the first time that they were canceling flights because of a lack of qualified pilots.

    The lack of pilots had been building for several years, but in 2014, the industry simply ran out of enough qualified pilot applicants. The planes had to be parked and flights had to be canceled.

    If you have not yet been affected by a flight cancellation, there is a 35 percent chance that you will be in the near future. If your flight is canceled, this book will help you understand why.

    Introduction

    In the United States there are about 30,000 airline flights per day. It is a pretty remarkable system that safely transports more than 1.5 million passengers daily.

    Each of those 30,000 airline flights must have at least two qualified and trained pilots in order for the aircraft to get off of the ground and land safely at the destination with sometimes hundreds of passengers aboard.

    In 2014, becoming a commercial airline pilot requires an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) rating which also includes specific training milestones as dictated by FAA rules and regulations. An ATP rating generally requires a minimum of 1500 flight hours although there are some restricted ATP ratings available at 1000 and 1200 hours under certain conditions. Keep in mind this is the minimum number of hours. Often it will take more than the minimum to get to the airlines.

    Today, if a person desires to have a career as a commercial airline pilot; the cost of training to be employable as a first officer at a commercial airline can exceed $250,000 and take six and a half to eight years by the time all is said and done.

    Yet, the airlines insist on paying professional highly trained and skilled pilot first officers less than the janitor at the local fast food restaurant. This has resulted in pilots being paid poverty wages. Pilots actually do qualify for food stamps.

    In the past, no one really cared because it did not affect anyone but the pilots. If you think about it, the airlines sort of keep the pilots in hiding and out of sight. You generally will not see pilots on television or doing interviews. The information in this book is just not known by the general public.

    Now that

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