Sentences with phrase «flight training in»

I had just commissioned into the US Marine Corps, and would be attending an infantry - centric six - month training required by all Marine officers, The Basic School, in Quantico, VA, followed by up to two years of Naval Flight Training in Corpus Christi, TX.

Upon graduation he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.

A couple of days we got a look at Brie Larson preparing to undergo some flight training in preparation for her role as Carol Danvers, and now we've got our very first look at the Oscar winner suited up and filming scenes as Captain Marvel.

Not exact matches

In fact, we want to establish a steady cadence — that there's always a flight leaving, like a train leaving the station.

Guidance Aviation, a company that specializes in high - altitude helicopter flight training, was honored today as the U.S. Small Business Administration's 2013 National Small Business Person of the Year.

The flight crews are brought together with colleagues from different departments and trained in conflict resolution, hospitality and emotional intelligence, to help employees truly understand the customer's perspective; to resolve issues and not push them up the chain.

In the travel sector, companies have to take customer service seriously if they hope to succeed, because a wonderful flight, train journey — or soon, we hope, a space trip — begins and ends with great service.

Once you've settled in after a long flight or train ride, it can be difficult to find the motivation to do anything other than relaxing.

First of all, she is a flight attendant, but also trained at Norman College in the United Kingdom, where the nannies of British royals come from, to support parents.

Rather than have you spend hours on a slow train or in a cramped car, Blade's flights promise to get you out to the Hamptons in just 40 minutes.

An example is the program begun by the late Al Ueltshci, founder of FlightSafety, a pioneer in training airplane pilots using flight simulators.

«The rise in serious incidents involving animals in flight leads us to believe that the lack of regulation in both health and training screening for these animals is creating unsafe conditions across U.S. air travel,» said John Laughter, Delta's senior vice president for corporate safety, security and compliance.

Héroux - Devtek, he notes, builds landing gear assemblies for the Lockheed Martin C - 130J Super Hercules, which remains a workhorse in the U.S. military, while CAE mostly provides flight simulators used mainly to train helicopter pilots.

Don't ask to speak to the pilot, because pilots are trained to prioritize cockpit duties and usually defer to their in - flight crew's judgment when a cabin issue is reported.

As Microsoft noted in a Tuesday blog post, people are already using HoloLens for training flight crews and aircraft mechanics.

So if you plan to hop on Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Peter Pan's Flight or any other ride that normally has a longer wait time, you will certainly find yourself more likely to be one of the last guests in the park.

Maj. Stephen Del Bagno was participating in a routine training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range when the crash occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, the Thunderbirds said in a training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range when the crash occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, the Thunderbirds said in a Training Range when the crash occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, the Thunderbirds said in a release.

«We tend to have a culture where... people don't generally speak up,» said Jason Tan, a former Singapore Airlines flight attendant who works as a consultant training cabin crews in Asia and the Middle East.

The flight took South Korean athletes for training in a ski resort in the North on Wednesday, and brought North Korean athletes to the South on Thursday.

Most people Reuters contacted about in - flight sexual misconduct, against passengers and crew — including airlines, flight attendant unions and airline training consultants — said incidents are vastly under - reported.

There is a magical place in Wales where the UK's Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots conduct low - level flight training - and you can grab your camera and watch them fly on by.

Several factors contribute in selecting the pilot destined to the Hog, including the flight experience, the achieved qualifications and currencies and, of course, the fluency with the English language (as no specific training is foreseen to improve with it before leaving for the U.S.).

«The rise in serious incidents involving animals in flight leads us to believe that the lack of regulation in both health and training screening for these animals is creating unsafe conditions across U.S. air travel,» John Laughter, Delta's senior vice president for corporate safety, security and compliance, said.

The National Development and Reform Commission, a powerful central body, said in March that it would extend train and flight travel restrictions for actions such as spreading false information about terrorism and using expired tickets.

NASA astronauts practiced on part - task trainers for Boeing's CST - 100 Starliner, which will be used to train astronauts in all aspects of shuttle launch, flight, and docking.

With a donation to Project Orbis attendees are able to «take the controls» of an aircraft in one of the state - of - the - art flight simulators that, in some cases, are used by NetJets ® pilots for training.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

I believe that the airline pilot is a professional, highly trained plane operator, skilled in flying, troubleshooting, emergency issues, flight safety, etc..

That flight arrived in Madrid about 10:30 am on Thursday so when the team was training, Navas was on an airplane.

The 27 - year - old was spotted heading onto a flight to Buenos Aires on Monday night and is highly unlikely to return in time for training this morning.

Game finishes at midnight in Moscow, no chance of a flight home, cargo only that time of night, back to the hotel 1 - 30 am, 8 hours sleep, up at 10, get to airport 11 - 30, check in, flight 1 - 00 pm, lands at at Luton 5 pm, get away 6 pm, get home between 7 or 8 pm, in on Friday for some light training, fly to Newcastle Saturday for the game, get to St James's Park 12 Noon on Sunday for a 1 - 30 kick and they still couldn't let us have the late kick off.

The 26 year old had been given permission to leave the Republic of Ireland training camp to discuss terms with the KC Stadium side as well as to undergo a medical as Steve Bruce looks to bring in attacking reinforcements that he hopes will help in his pursuit of keeping the Tigers in the top flight.

The De Lucias have a new station wagon, and in the first month the car traveled 4,500 miles, mostly on training flights.

While driving birds over to Jersey for training flights, Sam became interested in chicken farms he saw en route.

Bolton, West Ham and Hull would almost certainly head the same way if they fell out of the top flight, hence why clubs overreach themselves financially in an effort to stay on board the gravy train that is the Premier League.

By the way he and Nasri are at the mgm in Vegas as we speak, hopefully Nasris only flight thereafter will be back for pre-season training.....

I have poor circulation to start with, but my compressions socks help prevent blood from pooling in my legs during long flights and car / bus / train rides.

Our in - flight personnel are trained to handle these situations with professionalism and discretion... As with other devices that have an on / off switch, customers will be asked not to use them during takeoff and landing.»

For example, last month, a group of Libyan police cadets studying in Amman, Jordan, set fire to the training facility due to a flight delay.

I began my training in 1982 and by spring of the following year I had completed all the necessary elements up to that first solo flight.

2010: Won passage of the Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act in the wake of the Colgan Air Flight # 3407 disaster in the Buffalo area.

There, he had to go to the MP's house, collect the passport in question, get back on a train the same day, run back to Parliament, hand the MP his passport, all to ensure that the forgetful boss could board his flight.

The president further indicated that «at the State Banquet Hall last Tuesday I announced that we will in the next four years assist the Ghana Air Force to establish a flight training school which would be a center of excellence in West Africa.

In Portugal train services are down to ten per cent, with 160 flights cancelled and protests taking place in about 40 Portuguese towns and citieIn Portugal train services are down to ten per cent, with 160 flights cancelled and protests taking place in about 40 Portuguese towns and citiein about 40 Portuguese towns and cities.

(WBEN) A battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over the big pilot training rules that family members who lost loved ones aboard flight 3407 secured in Washington after that flight went down in Clarence in 2009.

«Capt. Akinkuotu is a seasoned transport pilot, flight and aircraft maintenance engineer, airline chief executive and a trained aviation industry regulator,» the ministry said in the statement.

A: Some of my trained volunteers and I have done a handful of test flights, and we're now pulling together the resources — money, an RV, a pickup truck — to stay in the field for weeks at a time in a «mobile flying camp.»

The winged Kliper craft would subject passengers to only modest launch g - force stresses and would gently glide into the atmosphere upon return, resulting in cheaper flights and shorter training periods for tourists with busy earthly schedules.

Keith Yamamoto, vice dean for research at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, is such a strong advocate for young scientists in training that he took a red - eye flight from California just to attend 1 day of the retreat!

Solar Impulse 2 test flights are due to take place in May 2014, followed by training flights over Switzerland.