Flying an airplane requires a combination of aeronautical skill and knowledge. Learning how to fly takes hours of intensive flight and ground instruction over a period of months. To become an aircraft pilot, one must accumulate flight time and pass certain tests to show one’s skill in piloting. In America, learning to fly is an easy task. Getting a pilot license, on the other hand, is much harder. To begin with, one needs to …showed first 75 words of 728 total…

…showed last 75 words of 728 total…aircraft pilot is easy, in fact too easy for a terrorist. I believe that we should tighten down security and have background checks in all aircraft schools. It is good, however, that an average citizen can be a pilot in such a short time. “The aviation job market has been so good…” (Babbage 97). With such opportune jobs popping up all over the place, it is no wonder why so many people want to be pilots.