Air France - Profession: Flight Captain

On a day-to-day basis, the airline pilot is mainly concerned with flying the aircraft and dealing with flight telecommunications, navigation and mechanical monitoring procedures. The pilot shares the safety and emergency rescue operations with the cabin crews (flight attendants).

Starting with the technical analysis of the flight file (weather constraints, choice of flight routes, amount of fuel, flight particularities, etc.) through to the flight completion (crew debriefings and flight reports), the pilot takes care of all priorities which are flight safety and security and operating performance (punctuality, limiting impact on the environment).

Two categories of pilots -- flight captain and first officer

The flight captain manages the crew and takes all necessary decisions with his crew from preparing the flight through to its completion with flight safety and security a constant top priority. He takes responsibility for the mission through delegation of authority from the CEO.

The co-pilot or first officer is second-ranking in the hierarchical structure of the crew. His qualifications allow him to assume the same functions as the flight captain, i.e., flying the aircraft along with the flight navigation, telecommunications and mechanical monitoring procedures.

On long flights, the crew may comprise more than one first officer.

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[BettinaFromBrazil]

we just saw a BLACK WOMAN, doing a "men's" and a "white's" job. Do you think airfrance would hire her if she wasn't a good pilot?

Luckly, their hiring system is abt "CAN YOU FLY THIS THING OR NOT?"

TIME TO STOP BEING SO FUCKING RACIST AND MACHISTS YOU ASSHOLES

"Better sexy and racy than sexist and racist"

[AF401]

That B777-300ER is F-GSQB ^_^

[krugerfuchs]

@hiway51biker you should try a flying lesson it's great

[krugerfuchs]

if she's good enough to fly the plane then there's no problem regardless if she's black or female

[hiway51biker]

Such an interesting occupation...I enjoy watching cockpit videos on here also. The flight crews are all highly trained professional people and I would feel 100% secure in any of their capable hands. They do an incredible job.

[TheExpress666]

Why are some people shocked to see a black woman flying an aircraft...???

[MrGyngve]

@90scoolll And you are a white i suppose? Too bad I share skin color with people like you..

[90scoolll]

@Pvjinflight lebanese is a good pilots

[Pvjinflight]

@90scoolll I would be scared to fly plane flown by lebanese.

[bedford2]

BettinaFromBrazil, you're right. 90scoolll, you're a racist knob.

[90scoolll]

@BettinaFromBrazil that's because they feel scares to fly a planes by black pilots!! black ppl can't make some kind of jobs like white does! big jobs like that should white ppl take care of it, they much proffesional then any other! big responsabilities only should be taken by white people.

[AF401]

@Ahuntsicspotter Ah, ok then.