Pe rel ei - Ee A ln ere In the CP Air crew Captain D. B. Bacon, left, and First Ofticer M. MacDonnell work out In CP Alr's Boeing 737. simulator at Vancouver International Airport under watchful eye of check pilot Captain E.. Wells. simutator the. crew encounter a variety of flying problems, Inciuding many nver ex- pertenced In normal flight. ~ Dangers of TORONTO (CP) — So guess I was stabbed in the a museum ByGALLDOTINGA - . Technology has made today's jets safer but it has made the job of. plloting them more ~ “nerve- wracking.” . ; * Bob Fulcher, executive chief-pilot of CP Air’s 737s, . says pilots require more skills now than they did in ’ the past to cope with all the sophisticated: equipment. “It’s more demanding than when.I used to fly the old DC-3,"-he said, . “Today's planes go faster, you have to be more alert.” In addition to main- taining altitnde, the pilot must keep watch over all systems in’ the aircraft, such as the fuel, generator ‘and electrical, In preparation for lan- ding and take-off, there is a constant rejay of in- formation between the ~ captain and the first officer. as they check off the lists of procedures required te ~ keep the plane functlotning in a safe manner. Despite this hectic pace, pilots are at: home in the cockpit, which is covered from the floor t the ceiling with switches, dials, gauges, and buttons, = There are some moments ; : to relax though. Once airborne, the automatic pilot can be switched on, * giving the captain and the officer a chance to sit back while it, maintains the altitude. as well’ as keeps wings level. A nw me elabp alten a eae thane im Sophisticated jets safer, but. tougher | to. fly control. fiying Fulcher worries most about thunderstorms. ._ . “Most pilots hate allp- pery runways but forme. it’s thunderstorms,” he aald. “They can warn you In 20 years. of The Herald, Tuesday. February 10 1941, Page te | for” things to go wrong mechanics. “This ‘is ” senda are soget ie * ‘before you reach the erixis followed by 2 ‘hours of simulator | that’ Would ” stage." - fiying . time in” the rarely, if at all, happi in . "But outside’ of the cock- simulator, which* ina. pit, the pilots bave no - duplicate of the cockpit. -lt oo also ». includes flight, ; An movements to being it’ fas r lose as possibie tthe reat you: think a museum: ‘curaloe’s job is bookish, stuffy and safe? Just follow Ed Keall to the next hot spot in the ' world. The associate curator of weet Asian studies for the Royal Ontario Museum has been stabbed in ithe , the. ahoulder at this time. If - wes just a single, deep, elean knife wound in the back.” . 4 But Keall is more in terested in his work thar in‘ escapades — that threaten it, His work is studying southern Arabia, which, he calls the centre -price,'* ee eee Ee . > get a flight back to ” la good place to spend New . ‘1965. on Islamic projects that were picked up by the . shoulder during an Iranian revolutionary riot and chased off a Turkish beach at kaife point, a A: Nairobi:hotel where he © was slaying recently was bombed the night after he ve aduow he's planning an expedition into North Yemen, often at war with South Yemen. It's all part of searching ; for history among the ruins § of ancent cites, delving @ into the power, resources ¥\ and polities of the pre-® nasties of 300 BC to 1200 *And be can still say, with a laugh: “Tve lost a dot of lives. Cn He was in Nairobi en’: route fram Yemen, waiting Canada. All he wanted was Year's Eve’ and a friend recommended. “the Nor- fork... it's a great-place.”’ Or at least it was a great place until terrorists bombed: it, killing five people and injuring 40." The Turkish beach looked like a fine spot for some swimming and sun, | except "three guys showed up with a knife.” The lranian incident, he says, was “frightening in, retrospect ,.. we could have been killed. — “The driver just had the Buts to keep going.”’ Kenll bas spent a. third of his life in Iran. He first se ediaslanhdillitecenah acorn cient Sof all the trade for cen- turies,"” watching how the . patterns changed and ‘discerning the reasons ‘‘for all the traffic going on.” At ome time, he says, - frankincense and myrth -were like today's oil, - “selling at a very inflated | because the Egyptians were: ps malng it like crazy" for embalming. “But the bottom fell out when the Christlans came and sald they couldn't embalm anymore.” Keall spent six weeks in Yemen preparing for a larger expedition next : December to a 12th-. ; Century Yemenite city, ‘ perform better and. the number of emergencies | “Although technology: bas Mnade. life a Hitle tougher for the pilot no one can .. the - complain about benefits it has brought to air travel. - According to ‘Fulcher, the new planes becomes fewer each year. “There is ‘more leeway SSN BATTERY N.A.C. 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