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300,000 saudi pilots including pensacola have been grounded and definitely after a saudi air force officer shot and killed three americans at the florida naval base, wounding eight others. "a safety stand down an operational pause commenced monday for saudi arabian aviation students." classroom training is expected to resume this week for those students. training for international aviation students from other countries has already resumed. the 140 saudi students training in pensacola are grounde...

Decades, for decades now foreign military personnel have been coming to the united states in flight training, its very significant. because the u.s. has a number of very, u.s. military, large, widespread training ranges across the united states that pilots from other countries, they may not have access to that kind of wide geographic area that they can conduct realistic, in-flight, in the air training. it always starts, of course, with classroom training. what goes on at pensacola. but this is a...

Certification issue or some problem that they overlooked when they certified the airplane, to ground the airplanes now would be admitting to that. it would be admitting that we did something wrong, and theyre not going to want to do that. >> thank you. mary, you said that regulators are essentially betting with their lives of crews and passengers that this wont happen again. explain. >> well, thats right. so what the faa and boeing have said is after the first crash, they said they were going to...

Something wrong. theyre not going to want to do that. >> thank you. you said that regulators are essentially betting with their lives of crews and passengers that this wont happen again. explain. >> thats right. what the faa and boeing have said is after the first crash they said they were going to make changes to the manuals and require classroom training of the pilots now or of training. and then immediately after the ethiopia crash the faa issued another guidance, another order that said it w...

Leaving the forest service and states at a loss for helicopters and manpower, prompting officials for the first time in nine years to mobilize 200 soldiers to fight fire. >> going through classroom training on wednesday and then through some field training later this week, and then by sunday they will be up, be with actually working on the line as firefighters. so we expect that to be 20 crews. >> reporter: more than 3,000 remain evacuated. fire fighting costs roughly $30 million a day. losses w...

On autopilot. >> i see mary nodding her head in agreement there. you think pilots are too reliant on technology now? >> i do. and thats part of the training. and i also put some of that blame on their carriers. i mean, for example, i worked on the colgan crash. on that one it was very surprising they got very short amounts of training and some of it was just classroom training including some of their upset training occurred in a classroom. so they just relied upon the computer too much and the c...

In on the l.a.x. shooting. i want you to listen to what he said. >> close-up of the tsa is to insure that people can board planes safely. take flights safely. the responsibility for protecting airport security is not a tsa function. but something that i think we need to certainly examine, given ha happened in los angeles. >> so tom, hes referring to the potential here, the notion that some are suggesting arming the tsa. do you think thats a good idea? >> the only question about doing that. the t...

>> yes. effective july 1, dog walkers need to get a license. they can either be grandfathered in if theyve been a dog walker for three years or more or underdog 20 hours of classroom training or 40 hours of an apprenticeship. they need to pay for a dog walker license and there are rules governing how they walk dogs. you can have between four to eight. six is recommended. if you drive the dogs around in a car, your car has to be inspected. you have to have insurance, et cetera. >> tucker: it says...

Things i enjoyed the most at the airline a period when i was a supervisory captain and instructor. we were hiring new pilot, and i got to fly with pilots who had gone through the classroom training. they had several thousands of flight experience before they came to the airline. and i got to fly with them on passenger flights and sign them off as being completely qualified to fly with regular line captains. i also got to fly with captains who were new who had been first officers who had been thr...