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>> what do you love about flying? >> i love that flying brings out the best of my character. >> reporter: she graduated from an aeronautical university last may and working as an instructor pilot. she had 250 flight hours at graduation and already earned 600 more. she's still not able to fly for a commercial airline. >> at first, it's a lot of money you have to pay, a lot of time you have to put forward. a lot of work on the front end. as a career choice, it's a great path to choose. >> reporter: it's a path fewer people are choosing. in 2007, faa issued 67,000 student certificates. over six y...

>> [ inaudible question ]. >> i don't have the specific dates. they've been there for -- they left sunday -- okay. they left sunday and it was a normal course of business for us to work across the services in training missions. >> at what point do you ask and take the instructor pilot to make the decision of whether or not to go and not to go [ inaudible ]? >> now, i'm not a pilot. so i'll speak from a novice stand point. but they are very cognizant of weather conditions before they depart on a mission. but can you depart from one station and hit weather you didn't expect. and so the condition...

Staffer or flight attendants. so the building of the team, the crew resource management process. it's formalized. pilots are trained in it. it facilitates open communication. if someone is about to do something with the airplane, the other pilot doesn't feel kfbl. you have an obligation to bring it up. whether you are the first officer or the captain. this facilitates communication. it makes for better decisions. now the question that was brought up and rightfully so by the ntsb and the asiana accident was that, i guess i will call it innuendo or a minimal advice that a problem was developing ...

The inmar sat put out. and so that could have happened. now, could a 777 pilot fly at 200 feet behind in formation? that's why i'm interested what the simulator data that was erased, what the fbi labs at quantico turns out to see. i talked to a 777 pilot just before i came on here. a chap who i have known a long time, a 777 pilot, as well as 787 instructor pilot. he indicated that he probably could, if he had practiced some in the simulator, and was on auto pilot. so there are different options that could have happened. i don't have all of the why or the how because there's just not enough inf...

Flight 68 is exact overlay on the inmar sat put out. and so that could have happened. now, could a 777 pilot fly at 200 feet behind in formation? that's why i'm interested what the simulator data that was erased, what the fbi labs at quantico turns out to see. i talked to a 777 pilot just before i came on here. a chap who i have known a long time, a 777 pilot, as well as 787 instructor pilot. he indicated that he probably could, if he had practiced some in the simulator, and was on auto pilot. so there are different options that could have happened. i don't have all of the why or the how becau...