Airline Pilots Get Jet Transport Training On 8th Floor of Converted Furniture Store
Editor's note: The rigorous train-
pilots undergo learning to fly the
giant new commercial jetliners is a
little known aspect of the jet ace.
In the following dispatch, a vet
eran aviation writer tells what he
found out about the training pro
gram from a visit to the training
center of one major airline.
By ROBERT J. SERLING
UPI Correspondent
' Kansas City) Mo. - (UPD - All
was quiet 'and routine in the
cockpit of the big Boeing 707
jetliner. -
The cruising altitude was
30,000 feet. The ground speed
was 487 miles per hour with a
20 mile headwind. .
A loud, raucous buzzer
squawked suddenly. A red
light began flashing on the
instrument panel so bright
that the roof of the flight deck
glowed crimson.
"Grab her!" the captain
snapped to the co-pilot.
The latter took the controls.
In one swift motion, the cap
tain donned an oxygen mask
and pulled a lever that auto
matically opened the mask
compartment above every seat
in the passenger cabin.
Plane Nosed Down
The co-pilot donned his own
mask. At the very second he
let go of the wheel, the cap
tain took the controls, pushed
them forward and the giant
plane began nosing down.
In back of the two pilots, a
third man quietly marked
down a grade next to an item
reading
"Emergency descent after
explosive decompression, use
of oxygen mask and mike.
The grade was "good."
"Not bad," he told the per
spiring captain. "Get her nose
down a little bit faster. This
is a race against time."
'I'hio !TiiHftTit AA nrif talrA
place at 30,000 feet. It hap
pened on the 8th floor of a
converted Kansas City furni
ture store a ' half - million
dollar structure that Trans
World Airlines has remodeled
into the most modern ' pilot
training center in the world.
The flight deck was merely an
electronic simulator which is
so close to the real thing that
on a landing, you can hear
tires squeal on make-believe
pavement.
Praises Jets
The man in charge of this
breeding ground for jetliner
pnots is i-api. nay itowe, di
rector of TWA Flight Oper
ations Training. Under his
guidance, TWA is turning out
the captains, first officers and
flight engineers who are man
ning the airline's new 707 jet
liners. Rowe, soft-spoken but
plunt, is outspoken in praise
of the jets.
"They are . different, they
are demanding, and they do
not tolerate carelessness or
mistakes," Rowe said. "But in
the hands of a thoroughly
trained pilot, they are the
safest aircraft ever built
and it's our job to make sure
our crews are so trained."
This is how the crews are
trained:
" -A full year before TWA
took delivery of its first 707,
all pilots, . engineers, naviga
tors and dispatchers received
home study material on jet
operations - high altitude
meteorology, electronics, jet
engine principles and the fly
ing characteristics of high
speed, swept -back wing air
craft. -Actual qualification on the
jet begins with 60 hours of
ground school courses. In
these, crews familiarize them
selves with - every detail of
the plane itself, from its en
gines to its airframe; from
flight deck instruments to the
air-conditioning system. . They
must pass a stiff examination
before they are allowed to
progress to the next phase.
Simulators Preferred
-Another 24 to 30 hours are
spent in the 707 simulator. All
airlines prefer to use simula
tors for pilot training for two
reasons: (1) they are cheaper
($125 an hour compared to
$1,200 an hour on a real
plane) and (2) they can train
and test crews in emergency
procedures without risking a
five-million-dollar aircraft. In
the simulator, a pilot will
spend 10 hours observing, 10
hours at the controls them
selves and another four to 10
hours "refining" his perform
ance and passing tests
The entire jet course takes
three weeks, in 14 completely-
equipped classrooms that con
tain everything from animated
diagrams of various jet sys
tems to color movies of the
airports the jets will serve
(taken from a cockpit to ac
custom crews to all runways,
approaches, obstructions and
so on).
When pilots complete the
course, they fly the real thing
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Pages 1-8
Steel Negotiations Reflect
Management Cost Resistance
By ELMER C. WALZER
UPI Financial Editor
New York -(UPD-Wall Street
experts are pointing out that
the steel negotiations reflect
a tendency on
the part of
managem e n t
to put up stiff
resistance t o
increasing 1 a -bor
costs.
Sever a 1
other big labor
other. big
labor negotia
tions are soon
li h ff
This year's crucial talking
point for management is pro
ductivity. The labor side
stresses worker security -
guaranteed annual wage
clauses, or company-paid sup
plemental unemployment ben
efits. Industry is driving against
feather - bedding. This is seen
XJ
Elmer Waller
to come - aluminum, rubber,
and railroad. Copper negotia
tions have been going on for
some time and the copper
miners are working during
the negotiations - without a
contract. -
Copper companies are be
deviled by record high inven
tories of the metal which their
customers built in anticipation
of a strike that would shut
down production. Now they
aren't buying copper and the
price has been gliding.
All management is putting
up a tough fight against labor
and will continue to do so,
according to a survey of cor
poration presidents by Dun &
Bradstreet.
Tough Bargaining Year
"This year's contract bar
gaining may be the toughest
since World War II," says Dun
and Bradstreet in a report on
its survey in the current Dun's
review.
"Labor is strong, determin
ed, and, in some cases, run-,
ning scared. Management,
strengthened b y , recession
economies and improved pro
ductivity and profits, is set to
meet labor's demands with ag
gressive counter - proposals
and it has no intention of giv
ing something for nothing." ..
Encampment Due
Oregon Air Reserve
Portland -(UPD- Oregon's
304th air rescue squadron (re
serve) will leave Portland Sat
urday morning for its annual
1 5-day I summer encampment
at Hamilton AFB, San Rafael,
Calif.
The 304th has a comple
ment of 64 officers and men
from Oregon and southwest
Washington.
Major John A. Forsythe of
Portland, squadron command
er, said today the unit will
leave Portland International
airport in seven airplanes be
ginning at 9 a.m. Saturday.
The. 3 04th has four SA-16 am
phibious aircraft. Three C-119
"flying boxcars" of the 313th
troop carried squadron ' at
Portland will assist in the air
lift to Hamilton.
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FRONT-PAGE CATCH
Looe, England - (UPD - W.
E. Melhuish, a newspaper
vendor, went fishing for the
first time in his life, and land
ed in the newspapers. Mel
huish pulled in a 10-foot, 372-pound-
shark.' It was not only
a record but more than
doubled the previous record
for a shark caught in English
waters. . ,
as the number one theme for
the railroad bargaining to
come later in the year. Man
agement also is expected to
drive for modification of rigid
seniority rules and obstacles
to free subcontracting.
Here are two of the other
points brought out in the sur
vey:
Need for union cooperation
to train workers for other jobs
when automation eleminates
their jobs.
Check 'Growing Power'
' And a feeling among man
agement that the time has
come to impose government
restrictions and restraints on
labor to check the unions'
"growing concentration of
power."
The survey reveals that
while management if often
outspoken against labor
unions, it is far more friendly
than might be expected in con
fidential replies to' question
naires sent to company presi
dents on -the Dun & Bradstreet
panel.
Four out of ten of the presi
dents held on balance,
"Unions are a - constructive
force in the economy, and al
most all the others feel union
ism historically has served a
necessary purpose although
union power has now grown
to unhealthy dimensions," the
survey said.
The toughness of industrial
leaders and of unions at the
bargaining table may bring
more walkouts. Wall Street
just now isn't as cocky about
them as it was a short time
ago. They could get out of
hand and turn our prosperity
into a new recession, some of
the experts feel.
An eight - week steel strike,
steel and market men hold,
could put tr.a nation in a
strait jacket.
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Juno Rocfcef
Explodes on Ground
At Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral, Fla.-(l'PD
An Army Juno II rocket
with an ''all-purpose" scien
lific satellite exploded in a
tremendous cloud of smoke
and flame Thursday in
what was supposed to have
been the most complex data
gathering" trip into space
yet undertaken.'
On ignition, a huge puff
of smoke erupted from the
rocket.
Instead of lifting ' from
the launching pad, the
rocket was enveloped in a
huge ball, of fire. It was not
known whether the rocket
actually left the ground.
Several fragments of the
76-foot rocket could be
seen around the launch site.
Alhambra, Calif. -(UPfi-A 20-year-old
bowler delivered a
clean strike with his car, po
lice reported today. Earl L.
August reached around to
grab a bowling ball that was
rolling loose in the back of his
car and as he was groping
for it lost control of the car.
The auto hit a utility pole
square on the nose. August
was unhurt, but the car re
ceived $1,000 damage.
for another 10 hours. Then
comes the final exam: a
test by a Federal Aviation
Agency inspector. -
Do any pilots flunk this
admittedly tough training?
Rowe says TWA has yet to
expeuience a complete failure;
two captains declined to take
the course and two more
dropped out voluntarily after
starting. This is about par for
most airlines flying jetliners
and perhaps a little better.
Many Nervous
"I don't doubt many pilots
are nervous when they, start
out," Rowe explained. "The
jet is more than just another
big plane it's a completely
different aircraft from any
thing they've ever flown, from
the power plants to its aero
dynamics. But after 90 hours
of concentrated instruction,
our crews know the 707 as
well as they knew their old
Constellations and- I'd make
the flat statement they like
the 707 a whale of a lot bet
ter. It's a sweet-flying, sweet-
handling ship that asks only
one thing: Fly it by the book."
That is the one thing Rowe
and his nine fellow instructors
hammer away on their stu
dents: "Fly it by the book."
The jet is not temperamental.
but it is terribly sensitive. Its
great weight, its sensitivity to
outside temperature and the
flying characteristics of its
swept-back wings are all fac
tors that leave no margin for
error. ..... .
Is there any, particular
phase of jet operation that has
given pilots the most trouble?
Rowe says there have been
a few cases of undershooting
runways (landing too short).
"We fixed this by training
pilots not to lower their flaps
to 50 degrees until the aircraft
was actually, over the run
way," Rowe explains. "We've
had no trouble with under
shoots since then."
Argument Ends
In Death of Man
Tacoma-rtlPD-Arthur P. Ma-
grini, 66, Seattle, shot and
killed Edwin Newell, 55, Ta-
coma, Wednesday evening aft
er the two had argued on a
street corner here
Witnesses said the two men
argued for spme time, . then
Magrini went into his broth
er s home, got a .32 caliber
automatic, came back outside
and shot Newell between the
eyes, killing him instantly.
Detective Capt. R. J. Drost
said Magrini went back into
the house after the shooting
and waited for police to arrive.
Magrini, who is being held
on an open charge temporari
ly, confessed to the slaying
orally.
GENTLEMEN IN DISTRESS
St. Louis, Mo.-(UPJ)-At- least
two gentlemen in the cast of
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
at the Municipal Opera Wed
nesday night probably would
have preferred to have been
somewhere else. In the first
act, dancer Larry Merritt's
pants split down the back
when he did a bend-over. In
the second act, dancer Robert
Pageant's pants came loose
while he was dancing with a
partner.
Airplane experts say the
time is near when a plane will
leave New York at noon and
arrive in Los Angeles at noon
of the same day.
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