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Education




                             Ongoing training is needed

                                      now more than ever





                                                                          my home for the next two days. I had prepared
                                                                          with ground school training so as to make
                                                                          friends with my new foe.

                                                                          Would I be able to master what I had learned?
                                                                          Would I be able to fly the Airbus A320?
                                                                          Well, not actually  the real  plane, but  a  very
                                                                          expensive, Level D flight simulator at the Jet
                                                                          Blue University in Orlando Fla.? I was there to
                                                                          see if I could learn to fly an airplane millions of
        By Roger McNamara                                                 passengers before me had flown in. I would be
        Guide2Interchange                                                 trained by the best, Captain Wayne Phillips, a
                                                                          seasoned professional who had a great way of
              walked down a hallway leading to a door that opened into    making the complicated sound easy.
              a  massive  warehouse-like  facility.  Inside  were  machines
              standing on what looked like hydraulic stilts. I crossed a   As I waited for my session, parades of other
        I steel bridge to enter the belly of the beast, which would be    pilots entered the facility to receive their
                                                                          training,  too.  Pilots  came  in many  varieties.
                                                                          Some were there to switch aircraft, others were
                                                                          new to the airline, but the vast majority were
                                                                          returning for retraining. During the latter,
                                                                          which occurred every 12 months, they were put
                                                                          through their paces to refresh their knowledge
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