Pilots Train in KC
University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, October 28, 1970
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Students Get High, Professionally
A TWA Trainee Prepares to "Land" in This Cockpit
By BOB LITRAS
... in the jet simulator at TWA's Flight Training Center
water writer
Deep in the hills of Kansas City, Mo., there is an old department store where students ht high on a daily basis.
The old department store belongs to Trans World Airlines that has served as the TWA Operation since 1948 for TWA and for airlines from all parts of the world. The students get high "in" some of our most sophisticated individualized training equipment ever invented.
To find out more about the secluded professional life of an airline pilot, the Kansas consort tour the Training Center in Kansas City. We were greeted by Harrison on Doug Alexander, a former Air Force pilot, with TWA and former British Royal Air Force pilot, Alexander
The training center is normally stated by about 300 ground instructors, instructors and technicians, and trains all of TWA's 4,000 flight pilots, copilots and flight engineers equipped to train and retrain pilots, copilots and flight technicians. The passenger aircraft that TWA uses: the DC6, Boeing 727-507 or the B737.
**WE LKE TO Think this is the first training facility in the city we needst and/or fastest of buildings, but inside, we're still one of the
Student pilots are accepted from airlines all over the world, intending to study in the East and the Far East, Alexander said. TWA pilots are chosen from applicants who are already qualified with military experience.
A pilot first spends two weeks in classroom training covering equipment, hydraulics, jet propulsion, safety and emergency procedures. Federal Aviation Administration rules, to name a few.
"We don't attempt to train a pilot from scratch," Alexander said.
Seniority dictates when he will be able to move up to become the captain of a larger plane. Any time a pilot chooses to change assignments, he must receive upgrading training at the center.
ALEXANDER SAID **that** usually a smaller plane would be on a smaller, planes usually the DC8 or the Boeing 727 for the room training would be oriented to the plane.
Classroom training is accomplished with the aid of a TWA invention—the systems trainer. The student will be illuminated boards that contain diagrams of each of the major systems in an aircraft. In the classroom, you may be set up that duplicates the situation in an airplane such as a
Alexander said that systems trainers cost $7,000-81,000, and that any system on any of TWA's trains could be reproduced on a trainer.
wheel well fire, a locked thrust reverse, or an electrical failure from the brake system. Trainer boards resemble those in the airplane, except they are
... to the trainees inside the simulator it does
CLASSROOMS ALSO use slides, movies, and a question-answer device known as a responder.
Does It Really Fly?
A responder is an electronic device that allows students to answer the question on their buttons on their desks. The answers are tabulated on the in-screen display at a glance how many students understand the subject matter, and how many each student has written on his desk that tells him if he was
"It it helps to save em- embarrassment for the pilots," Alexander said, "and it keeps the class from being held up."
Classroom training also includes emergency procedure instruction in full-scale cabin different kinds of aircraft cabins.
"HERE THEY LEARN by
hands," he wrote.
Herschel has come to in and actually operate the emergency doesen,
oxygen masks, life rafts and even a fire extinguisher.
At the end of two weeks' classroom training, pilots are Cockpit Procedure Trainers (CPTs) with size duplicates of aircraft cockpits, and are fully instrumented. A pike spend at least five hours in the cockpit, with the controls of the aircraft. CPTS cost $100,000 to $250,000 or more. Alexander said, but even without using an actual airplane,
"It costs around $7 per hour to use a flight trainer, but to train pilots in real airlines would run about $80 an hour," he said.
Almost any trouble situation can be duplicated in a simulator, complete with engine noise, visual effects and motion. The plane and roll just as airplanes do. Da'Ram flying can be accomplished, and all kinds of weather situations can be reproduced.
partment and mounted on a steel rack.
From the CPTS, student pilots progress to the famous Link-built aircraft, which is like a nose of a jet aircraft. The fuselage is chopped off just in front of the cockpit.
IN F front of the simulator is a television screen that receives images from a camera scanning the landscape and airports in the basement of the building. The camera captures the cockpit of an aircraft in flight.
Pilots train in the simulators for three four-hour sessions, preceded by a 90-minute briefing. An instructor "rides the treat of the simulator and monitors the flight crew's progress."
"We can train two captains, a captain and a co-pilot, or a complete flight crew during one flight." Alexander said.
TWA has eight simulators in the Kansas City facility, and three more in a satellite training facility. Each simulator costs more than million, and requires the assistance of its own coordinating staff. A staff of 30 technicians keep the simulators in repair.
THE STUDENT PILOT, at the successful completion of his simulator training, graduates to actual air training. TWA jet trainers that handle the same larger airliners. When a student has successfully completed his 8 to 10 hours of air training (lands, landings, etc.) he is assigned a position on a flight crew
all of TWA's flight crews must return to the once each year for a day of refresher or training, said. Six months after recurrent training, all pilots must have an additional training for TWA captains must return 60.
TWA is not the world's largest airline, but since the first TWA飞机 in 1950, oopotomaw training in jet flight has been an important company goal.
"We're talking about professional people," Alexander said, "and they've got to be good. All of the major airlines have the same thing as we do, but we like to think ours is best."
ONCE A PILOT has gained seniority, he can choose the type of plane he wants to fly. If he does so, he will move to the center for upgrading training.
"All of our big planes—the 747's—are flown by our most senior pilots," Alexander said.
Some pilots choose to return to the center and serve as instructors and then return to the plane after a year.
"By the time a man leaves the profession, the company may have spend over $150,000 on his job and he is good." Alexander said.
The equipment is amazingly versatile and its expense is amazing, too.
Alexander was a pilot from 1936 to 1946 for the RAF and flew in combat planes and trainers, he said, but now he is alive and sees things develop.
be alive and see things develop I like to ride in the front end
Moshe Lazar, visiting professor of French, will give the talk this afternoon in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
The lecture, which will be illustrated by a close session of the lectures, will be presented this semester on "The Mysteries" in Hell in Medieval Civilization.
VIENNA (UP1)-Austria imposed strict health control regulations at its eastern borders Tuesday as a result of cholera neighboring Czechoslovakia, health authorities said.
Cholera Scare Hits Austria
An 18th century painter, Hieronymus Bosch, will be the topic of a lecture today.
A health authority spokesman said the controls were imposed after the World Health Organization (WHO) informed Austria that two of those were definitely established in eastern Czechoslovakia.
with the crew when I fly anywhere."
Final Medieval Lecture Today
"Flight crews are about the best people you could ever hope to meet anywhere, anytime."
Bob Meyers, Lawrence senior, was recently appointed Volunteer in service to American Airlines (A) organization, University of Kansas at Kendall, and member of government division in Chicago.
He plans a speaking tour of organized living groups in November and a VISTA recruitment week in December.
VISTA Representative at KU
The Army has a program that allows qualified officers to receive their master of arts degrees from various universities of foreign study. The University is a participant in the program.
Myers said he has general information and applications for VISTA and information on special programs for students in the schools of law, architecture and urban design and business. He can be reached at the KU-Y office, in the Kansas Union.
Officers Study Foreign Areas On Army Plan
The program, called Foreign Area Special Training (FAST), currently has eight people working on graduate degrees.
A member of the program focuses on the purpose of the university's tradition to produce people with qualified skills in other countries. The FAST program focused on Soviet and Polish lands; it covers areas there are two personal Polish-Czechoslovakia area and Polish-Zechoslovakia area, the FAST member said.
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