| crew = 5 ( pilot, co-pilot, AEO, Navigator Radar, Navigator Plotter )

Radar altimeters are also a component of terrain avoidance warning systems, warning the pilot if the aircraft is flying too low, or if there is rising terrain ahead.

He was the pilot on STS-49 for the maiden voyage of Space Shuttle Endeavour ( May 7-May 16, 1992 ), and STS-59 on the Space Radar Laboratory ( SRL ) mission ( April 9-April 20, 1994 ).

The Radar character later appeared in a pilot called W * A * L * T * E * R, in which Radar moved from Iowa to St. Louis, after his wife left him on his wedding night, and became a police officer.

In the W * A * L * T * E * R pilot, interviewer Clete Roberts is seen on TV mentioning that he had recently interviewed Hawkeye, and Radar mentions a picture he keeps in his wallet of him with Hawkeye, LTC Blake, and Major Houlihan.

In the case of the rarely used Ground-Controlled Approach ( GCA ), the instrumentation ( normally Precision Approach Radar ) is on the ground and monitored by a controller, who then relays precise instructions for adjustment of heading and altitude to the pilot in the approaching aircraft.

According to the then commanding officer to the Indian Air Force Radar unit, the following were the day's events, as witnessed by him via Radar, which led to the death of Balwant Rai Mehta, his wife and the pilot Jehangir Engineer:

The Radar Operator would then pass directions to the pilot until the fighter was 6, 000 feet behind, at which point the Beaufighter would execute a swift turn onto the tail of the German night fighter, pick up the enemy aircraft on his forward radar and attempt to down it.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

Homer continued his military career as a member of the U. S. Air Force Reserve, initially as a C-141 instructor pilot with the 356th Airlift Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, then subsequently as an Academy Liaison Officer, recruiting potential candidates for both the Air Force Academy and the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.

However, during the Vietnam War, the last conflict to produce U. S. fighter aces, the one USAF pilot, the two USAF navigators / weapon systems officers ( who were later retrained as USAF pilots ), the one USN Naval Aviator and the one USN Naval Flight Officer / radar intercept officer to achieve this distinction were eventually awarded the Air Force Cross and Navy Cross, respectively, in addition to Silver Stars previously awarded for earlier aerial kills.

Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a navigator, or pilot ( in military UAVs called a Combat Systems Officer on UCAVs ) on the ground or in another vehicle.

When they reached Super Six Four, Gordon and Shughart extracted the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant and the other crew members from the aircraft, and established defensive positions around the crash site.

In 1979, a Jamaican, Maria Ziadie-Haddad, became one of the first women in the Western Hemisphere to become a commercial jet airline pilot when she was hired by Air Jamaica 1968 Ltd as a B727 Second Officer.

The 49 FTS and 435 FTS conducted an advanced pilot training and the Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals ( IFF ) course for recently winged USAF Navigator / Combat Systems Officers en route to Weapons System Officer ( WSO ) assignments in the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft and recently winged pilots en route to the F-22 Raptor, F-15C / D Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and A-10 Thunderbolt II.

The Duke of York served as flight commander and pilot of the Lynx HAS3 on HMS Campbeltown from 1989 to 1991, during which he also acted as Force Aviation Officer to Standing NRF Maritime Group 1 while the Campbeltown was flagship of the NATO force in the North Atlantic from 1990 to 1991.

Up to 11 September 1941, Mitford is reported to have had an affair with RAF Pilot Officer John Andrews, a test pilot, who was stationed at the nearby RAF Brize Norton.

The outgoing pilot informed Captain Pearson and First Officer Quintal of the problem with the FQIS and passed along his mistaken belief that the aircraft had flown the previous day with this problem.

* Denys Graham as Flying Officer Les Knight RAAF, pilot of " Nut "

The dead were: BHP Billiton Angola Chief Operating Officer David Hopgood, Australian ; Angola Technical Services Operations Manager Kevin Ayre, British ; Wild Dog Helicopters pilot Kottie Breedt, South African ; Guy Sommerfield of MMC, British ; and Louwrens Prinsloo of Prinsloo Drilling, Namibian.

After some effort, Trenchard persuaded his Commanding Officer to grant him three months of paid leave so that he might train as a pilot.

Hoping to put his life on a different path, Zack signs up for the Navy's Aviation Officer Candidate School ( AOCS ) to become a Navy pilot.

The first plane landed there on 5 Aug, when LT Newton Wakefield, a former civil engineer and airline pilot, who later became the air station's Operations Officer, brought his SNJ single-engine trainer in with little fanfare.

On the flight deck were Captain Georges Raveneau, as instructor ; First Officer Jean-Pierre Hennequin in training ; safety pilot Michel Crézé ; and Flight Engineer Alain Bricout.

Spaatz was appointed Officer in Charge, American Aviation School at Issoudun, France but after receiving orders to return to the United States, he saw three weeks of action during the final months of the war with the 13th Aero Squadron as a supernumerary pilot.

* Pilot Flying, in commercial aviation, a designation for the pilot in control of an aircraft ; see First Officer ( civil aviation )

As a Chief Warrant Officer 2, he attended the instructor pilot course and flew air assault missions in the UH-60.

Fighter unit GC I / 5 lost four pilots in combat that day ( 9 November ) and it was on that same day that Adjudant ( Warrant Officer ) Bressieux had the distinction of becoming the last pilot in the Vichy French air force to claim a combat victory, in this case a Wildcat of VF-9.

During his military career, Kline served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, commanded all Marine aviation forces in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, flew " Marine One ," the Presidential helicopter, and served as Program Development Officer at Headquarters Marine Corps.

In these cases a Flying Officer usually ranks above pilot officer and immediately below flight lieutenant.

Shaw entered the Air Force in 1969 after completing Officer Training School and attended undergraduate pilot training at Craig Air Force Base, Alabama.

At a range of 14 nmi ( 26 km ) the RIO of the lead F-14A fired the first AIM-7M Sparrow ; he surprised his pilot, who did not expect to see a missile accelerate away from his Tomcat.

All pod controls are in the RIO ’ s cockpit, but the bomb release button is situated with the pilot.

Captain Heard gave orders for the ship to be anchored in the Bay of Bengal until he could obtain the services of a reputable pilot to steer her through the shallow waters.

At Fort Ethan Allen the ever-present wind off Lake Champlain could readily flip a puny man-made thing like an airplane if the pilot miscalculated.

The large Tactical Information Display ( TID ) in the RIO's cockpit gave an unprecedented amount of information to the aircrew ( the pilot had the ability to monitor the RIO's display ) and, importantly, the AWG-9 could continually search and track multiple targets after Phoenix missiles were launched, thereby maintaining situational awareness of the battlespace.

By contrast, the Gemini capsule's avionics were designed so the cabin could be exposed to the vacuum of space when one of two large hatches was opened, so no airlock was required, and both the spacewalking astronaut and his companion command pilot were in vacuum during the EVA.

This in turn required the development of ejection seats so the pilot could escape and G-suits to counter the much greater forces being applied to the pilot during maneuvers.

A second crew member behind the pilot could aim and fire a swivel-mounted machine gun at enemy airplanes however, this limited the area of coverage chiefly to the rear hemisphere, and effective coordination of the pilot's maneuvering with the gunner's aiming was difficult.

Gun breeches were directly in front of the pilot with obvious implications in case of accidents, but jams could be cleared in flight, while aiming was simplified.

Air forces began to replace or supplemented them with cannons, which fired explosive shells that could blast a hole in an enemy aircraft — rather than relying on kinetic energy from a solid bullet striking a fuel line, control cable, pilot, etc.

In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode for the television series Leave It to Beaver, but his parents decided not to let him continue in the role so that he could have a normal childhood.

The pilot could use any one of the three thruster systems and fuel them from either of the two fuel tanks to provide spacecraft attitude control.

The next morning, Nawaf al-Hazmi, along with four other terrorists, boarded American Airlines Flight 77 and hijacked the plane so that Hani Hanjour could pilot and crash the plane into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

The U. S. Navy used a PDP-11 / 34 to control its Multi-station Spatial Disorientation Device, a simulator used in pilot training, until 2007, when it was replaced by a PC-based emulator that could run the original PDP-11 software and interface with custom Unibus controller cards.

The flight transcript might indicate that Saeed al-Ghamdi, who also trained in flight simulators, could have been the pilot or a co-pilot.

Flying with an Army pilot in a Taylorcraft L-2 or a Stinson L-5, Patton was able to inspect many more troop positions and headquarters in a day than could be accomplished by using a motor vehicle.

One traditional story describes the pilot as the famous Arab navigator Ibn Majid, but other contemporaneous accounts place Majid elsewhere, and he could not have been near the vicinity at the time.

While up in the air, Ray decided to do a parachute jump ( being an avid amateur parachutist ) but, just before he could disembark, the plane began to sputter, and the pilot told Milland not to jump as they were running low on gas and needed to land.

With the pilot placed high for a good view over the short nose and close-cowled radial engine, it could almost have come from the Filton drawing boards.

The Bonanza could seat three in addition to the pilot.

In response, Cierva developed a direct control rotor hub, which could be tilted in any direction by the pilot.

When the pilot explained that fumes inside the fuselage could ignite the airplane, LeMay reportedly growled, " It wouldn't dare.

In 1970, the white-bordered Union Flag ceased to be the signal for a pilot, but references to it as national colours were not removed from the current Merchant Shipping Act and it was legally interpreted as a flag that could be flown on a merchant ship, as a jack if desired.

The War Games showed that other Time Lords are also able to erase people's memories, as in that story, Jamie and Zoe's travels with the Doctor were erased from their memory, and the council of Time Lords also put a memory block on the Doctor so he could not pilot the TARDIS.

This panel arrangement was incorporated into every RAF aircraft, from the light single engined Tiger Moth trainer, to the 4-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber, and minimized the type-conversion difficulties associated with Blind Flying, since a pilot trained on one aircraft could quickly become accustomed to any other if the instruments were identical.