91.   But when pilots are in the air, he said, they are the ones in charge.

92.   By the end you feel as if the pilot were over and the weekly series were about to begin.

93.   By then he was training to be a pilot and had moved on from collecting license plates to acquiring cars and airplanes.

94.   Career advancement is dictated by where a pilot is on the seniority list, and switching airlines means going to the bottom.

95.   Charged are the pilot, Capt. Richard Ashby, and Capt. Joseph Schweitzer, Capt. Chandler Seagraves and Capt. William Raney II.

96.   Charter clients are not expected to know enough to make their own decisions about runway lengths, weather or how tired a pilot might be.

97.   Chinese pilots have been less aggressive in intercepting American flights in this area than they had been over the South China Sea.

98.   Cargo pilots are particularly worried.

99.   Computers in cockpits now give managers ample information on whether a pilot is good at keeping fuel consumption down, landing gently and so on.

100.   Considering the record profits that airlines are generating these days, pilots should be happy.