Quote from AK Forty Seven:
"Quote from Maverick74:
Hey RCG, can you cool it on the pilot shit? You are guilty of the same thing you are accusing Lucrum of. Sure, getting a "private pilot certificate" is pretty easy. But to actually become a "real commercial pilot" is not. It takes thousands of hours of flight time."
From May to Dec the 9-11 hijackers were knowledgeable enough to fly a commercial airliner into the WTC..7 whole months :eek:
Flight training
In March 2000, Mohamed Atta contacted the Academy of Lakeland in Florida, via e-mail, inquiring about flight training, "Dear sir, we are a small group of young men from different Arab countries. Now we are living in Germany since a while for study purposes. We would like to start training for the career of airline professional pilots. In this field we haven't yet any knowledge but we are ready to undergo an intensive training program (up to ATP and eventually higher)." He sent 50-60 similar e-mails to other flight training schools in the United States.[20]
On May 18, 2000, Atta applied for and received a U.S. visa.[20] After obtaining his visa, Atta traveled to Prague before going to the United States. Atta, along with Marwan al-Shehhi arrived in Venice, Florida, and visited Huffman Aviation to "check out the facility." They explained that "they came from a flight school in the area, they were not happy and they were looking for another flight school".[27] By December, Atta and al-Shehhi left Huffman Aviation, and on December 21, Atta received a pilot license.[28]