
How Pilots Live
An Examination of the Lifestyle of Commercial Pilots
Simon Bennett(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 18. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
283 pages
978-3-0343-1722-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book paints a detailed picture of the commercial pilot lifestyle, from the struggle to pay for training to time spent down route to thoughts of retirement. Once a glamorous occupation, commercial flying is today more of a job than a vocation with many pilots working the maximum permissible hours for increasingly meagre rewards under evermore stressful conditions. Pilots talk candidly about acute and chronic fatigue, short-notice roster changes that leave them insufficiently rested, noisy and poorly serviced down-route hotels, long daily commutes to work, indebtedness, fear of losing their pilot's licence, industry volatility, dread of lay-off or redundancy, the quality and agendas of airline managers, the impact of these and other stressors on family life and where they think the aviation industry is going. Despite these privations pilots remain enthusiastic - a testament to their professionalism and love of flying.
Reviews / Votes
<<I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand what our 'glamorous' way of life is really like; to the regulators and politicians who dictate the rules; and to any aspiring young hopefuls wanting to join what was once a fulfilling career.>> (Mike Buckley, The Log, Summer 2014)More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
414 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-1722-1 (9783034317221)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0586-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
02/2014
250th Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€75.89
Available for download
Person
Simon Bennett has a Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration from Sheffield City Polytechnic, a Masters in Communication and Technology and a PhD in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge from Brunel University, London. He has taught risk management at the University of Leicester for seventeen years. He works as a consultant to the aviation industry where he specialises in flight-deck human factors (teamwork, communication, leadership, morale, hierarchy, stress, fatigue, etc.). He has published in numerous academic journals and aviation periodicals. His books include Human Error - by Design?, A Sociology of Commercial Flight Crew, After Hubris, Nemesis: Why Flag Carriers Fail and Innovative Thinking in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management. Before entering academia the author managed an IT department in London.
Content
Contents: The Realpolitik of Commercial Aviation - Diarising Our Lives - Quantitative and Qualitative - The Lived Reality of Commercial Flying - What Have We Learned?