Between flying their first combat mission on 1 July and war's end on 15 August, the pilots logged over 8700 combat hours.
These pilots logged 776,351 miles of flight in the first year without an accident or loss of any mail.
If pilot has logged less than 400 hours and has not acted as pilot in command within six months, a flight review is required.
An instrument-rated pilot, Chiao has logged over 2500 flight hours in a variety of aircraft.
Both airlines avoid pairing pilots and co-pilots if both pilots have logged fewer than 100 hours in the position.
The pilot had logged 95 hours, all on type.
'Loud and Whistling Noise' Mr. Dempster said the pilot, Robert Marshall, 22 years old, had logged 1,700 hours of flight time.
In addition, the proposal states that a pilot must log 100 hours in a particular type of aircraft within 120 days after receiving F.A.A. clearance.
Last year, while pilots at British Airways logged 18 million passenger miles, Alitalia's pilots flew half that amount.
The safety pilot option is a very popular among general aviation pilots since it is the least expensive of the two options and because both pilots can log pilot-in-command (PIC) time.