What are the advantages and disadvantages of airline pilots’ job?

As a pilot, you would need excellent spatial awareness

You should be calm and able to take responsibility

You would also need a high level of numeracy for making mathematical calculations.

Being a pilot is not a nine-to-five job. For safety reasons, working hours are strictly controlled, but you would regularly work unsocial hours including nights, weekends, and public holidays. The amount of time away from home would vary, depending on whether you fly domestic or long-haul routes.

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A purser is a chief of the cabin crew. She / he is responsible for Flight Service

A security officer He needs to check people’s boarding cards and x-ray their hand luggage. He also spends time carrying out patrols within the airport.

A flight attendant welcomes the passengers, makes sure they are sitting in the correct seats and assists them in emergencies.

A customs officer’s job is to stop the illegal import or export of drugs, money, firearms, to control transportation of dangerous substances and materials and endangered species.

An air marshal’s aim is to assist the pilot in the safe manoeuvring of the aircraft on the ground. He communicates with the pilot by making visual signals with the arms and hands.

A maintenance engineer His responsibility is to keep the aircraft serviceable.

An aircraft refuller drives an enormous fuel tanker to the planes and connects them with the fuel tanks of the aircraft so that the necessary amount of fuel is supplied there.

A shuttle bus driver is in charge of the bus delivering passengers from the plane to the terminal.

22. Pilots are required to undergo(проходить) regular medical examinations to ensure their fitness to fly. Pilots do not have to be supermen to fly. Many defects can be compensated for, as, for example, wearing glasses for visual defects.

 

These specialized medical exams consist of physical examinations performed by Aviation Medical Examiners

 

The goal( цель ) of the Medical Examination is to protect the life and health of pilots and passengers by making reasonable medical assurance that a person is fit to fly.

Among the Aviation Medical Examiners there are doctors of different specialities: cardiologist, surgeon, dentist, dermatologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, ophthalmologist, oral surgeon, neurologist, neuropathist, physician, psychiatrist, psychologist.

Air crews are a high-risk group to several diseases and harmful conditions due to irregular work shifts with irregular sleeping, jet lag and irregular meals and work-related stress.

There are some professional diseases pilots might suffer from: stomach ulcer, hearing loss or even deafness, atherosclerosis, ischemia, heart problems, high-blood pressure (hypertension), haemorrhoids.

 

23. An infectious disease is a disease resulting from the presence(присутствие) of microbial agents. They are also called contagious diseases. They can be transmitted from one person or species to another.(physical contact). The infecting agents may also be transmitted through liquids, food, body fluids, contaminated objects, airborne inhalation, and so on.

Infectious diseases can cause problems for international flights

 

24. Stress is a feeling we have when we react to events that don’t make us feel very good. Such events can happen at school, like a test or examination, at work, like getting a new boss or in your private life, like preparing for a divorce.

Stress response is what our body does to fight stress. It makes us cope with stress and do well during the situations.

 

Stress can also be long term, like preparing for difficult exam or having private problems with our parents, teachers or friends.

 

Although the right amount of stress can be good, too much stress isn’t. A little stress can motivate us to study hard

 

Signs of stress. People who are experiencing long-term stress may have the following symptoms: panic attacks, smoking, depression, the feeling of constant pressure on them, they change mood quickly, they have stomach problems, sleeping problems, headaches and also may drink too much alcohol.

 

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