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Very interesting.
Well, I´m new here, so forgive me if this was already asked by someone, but what are the prerequisites to becoming an airline pilot and, specially, to piloting large aircraft like an A-330 or a 7x7?
The article you linked to stress the need of pilots to be familiar with the laws of physics. It seems to me that this would constrain the pool of would be pilots to engineers, physicists and mathematicians. Maybe some economists also.
What is the usual extraction of the pilot workforce in the airlines?
ps: I´m a brazilian that for profissional reasons fly over the south atlantic quite often, including in the ill-fated AF447. I have read this thread from the beggining, and also the old one. I´m an engineer, but have no training in the aeronautics industry, and must confess that I´m learning a lot from the very competent commentators here.