According the the 2003 Nall Report, about 76% of all fatal and non-fatal AC accidents were attributed to "pilot error". Only about 15% were attributed to mechanical failure and 9% to "other" causes (whatever that is).
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like say there was crosswinds, the plane landed but
the tip of the wing hit the ground and that tip broke off
would that be human errors or nature's fault????
That would be human error. A pilot should be able to handle landing in a crosswind. If the crosswind is too high for a particular AC or the pilot is not confident, he/she should make the judgement to either request a more appropriate runway or divert to another airport.
IIt’s also hard convincing my parents that I want to become a pilot when it’s usually rated one of the top 10 dangerous careers almost everywhere? How can I convince them it isn’t (if possible)?
Yes Dude, Same happend with me, I couldn't make my mother agree to let me join the pilot courses.. I waited for 2 years before joining the degree college because I was hoping that she will change her mind ..but no success.
Now I am 25 years old & working in petrochemical plant as SAP Basis Consultant & earning a good $money$... but whenever I flying my Airbus A-340 in FS2004 I am feeling that flying is my right place not a huge room with Dell servers.
& talking about dangour, personaly , I prefer die when flying my aircraft & doing what I love than in my comfortable bed .
Guys ... If you got the chance to be a pilot & you love flying then just do
it... chance never comes twice...
Before considering a career as a pilot consider the following;
I have been flying commercially for 35 years and a number of my friends and associates have been killed on the job. Being cognizant of this as a career issue just shows good sense. Let us not forget that fellow United pilot Jason Dahl was among the many pilots and flight crew members and passengers killed 9-11-01. I have lost fellow pilots in my Navy A-7 squadron, in the corporate world and in the majors, and have had a few close calls myself. Consider that to get to the hiring stage you will be doing your most dangerous flying, both because the aircraft are limited, sometimes indifferently maintained, (Let me tell you about the ball peen hammer my mechanic found in the tail of my Cessna 152 Aerobat sometime) and because, let's face facts, you have yet to know what you're doing.
You, like medical doctors, you are going to spend a great deal of your life and somebody's money before you get the big airline job. If you are not now well under 30, my advice is to see if you can get into nursing school. Many, many of my co-pilots will retire before I do because they were unlucky enough not to have fallen into an airline job that hasn't gone bye-bye since deregulation.
So, if you are young enough, smart enough, lucky enough, healty enough and, I'm taking it for granted here that you will work your ass off for 10+ years, you cannot imagine doing anything else you may have a shot. As for me, I'm glad I did it, but then I did and was all those things and then some.
I belive it is worth being a pilot, but its alot of work. Its great when you get to tell people you are a pilot, they treat you like a super star, so is it worth it? You bet.
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