Sentences with phrase «pilot training requirements»

Congressman Chris Collins, along with Iowa lawmaker Dave Loebsack, wrote a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, asking her to support keeping current pilot training requirements in place.

«Honestly, with urgent threats to flight safety, including the Senate bill approved today that strips pilot training requirements, and the legislation that is on the verge of taking health coverage away from people who desperately need it we have much bigger concerns than the President's outrageous tweets,» his spokesperson Theresa Kennedy said.

Back home, the senator had a message about his colleague John Thune's amendment to a Federal Aviation Administration bill that would loosen pilot training requirements.

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The branch has boosted pay, increased bonuses, changed training requirements, and called for retired pilots to return — all to entice fliers to stay in uniform and to be able to meet mission needs.

Industry representatives are pushing Congress to address the rising cost of pilot training, which can exceed $ 100,000 after requirements became more stringent in response to a 2009 crash.

In a road map for regulation released in November, the FAA hinted at a long list of possible licensing requirements, such as medical tests, pilot training, and drone airworthiness certificates.

That is raising issues about regulation and examination (as in England and Wales where the Solicitor Regulation Authority is proposing a new Solicitors Qualifying Examination to replace expensive mandatory training requirements) and the use of technology as in the pilot at Ryerson University in Toronto.