FEDEX also requires that three FEDEX pilots recommend an applicant for the job.
Military transport flying is neither Part 121 or 135, but can be like a combination of 91 and 135. They also deal often with fairly inexperienced controllers, who are more used to handling tactical/trainer jets (i.e. NAS Pensacola, even Eglin AFB).
I'll contradict myself a bit here-a civilian (more experienced?) Pensacola Approach controller had us lined up on final at Hurlburt AFB instead of Eglin, and we were in a civilian transport! Fortunately the AFB layout is backwards.
We were running late, and in ops I never bothered to look up his number and call the guy on the phone to enlighten him about his mistake.
Approach controllers can send you to the wrong airport or military base-especially with small weather cells everywhere on the Gulf coast and you are already on a heading straight towards one of them.
Last edited by Ignition Override; 20th April 2006 at 01:47.