Fly High

Fly High is an article that tells about careers in aviation such as being a test pilot; a commercial airline pilot and they even talked to one man about his career as a flight instructor.

From Student to Teacher
Barrington Irving was raised in Miami, Florida, but was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Irving lived an everyday life not really thinking much about jobs or careers. But one day he met Capt. Gary Robinson, a pilot for United Airlines. After Irving and Robinson began to talk Robinson asked Irving if he had ever thought of becoming a pilot. Irving didn’t believe that he was smart enough to become a pilot, he thought that people from the inner city weren’t smart enough to learn how to fly. When he told Robinson this Robinson replied with ‘if you can do it, then you can do it.’
From then on Robinson worked hard to earn money for his flying lessons.
That was the part of the article that interested me most.

Testing,Testing
This part of the article tells about Capt. Heather Ross, a test pilot for the Boeing Company in Seattle. She was the first person to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a new plane that is designed to hold at least 210 passengers. Ross informs the readers that most people who want to become a pilot train on and fly only one type of airplane, but a test pilot fly's all the planes.
A test pilots job is to test the planes ability to fly, and to make sure that it is airworthy. Ross may test the planes anywhere from one hour to ten hours a day. one of the most frightening test in my opinion is having to turn off the engines and fly the plane like that, but thankfully all pilots are taught how to fly the plane while the engines aren't working.

Flying to Your Destination
Price Gillenwater used to always watch the planes go by will he played outfield on his little league team. Flying wasn't his first career choice but that change after he didn't get into medical school he joined the U.S navy and became a pilot. afterwhich he became a pilot for Southwest Airlines.

All these pilots agree that if you are pursueing a career in aviation you should take classes in math and science. As for me I wouldn't really like a job in aviation, but who knows maybe I will have one.