Word: piloting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pilots in the program, as well as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which runs it, claim it has been a big success. Except for an arrest last month of an armed pilot who allegedly arrived at work drunk, there have been no problems like inadvertent discharges or illegal use of weapons, which often occur among new officer groups. But some pilots complain that the TSA has never embraced the idea, providing little follow-up after training and denying them basic intelligence data like the weekly suspicious-incident reports. "The government wants it both ways," says one pilot. "They want...
...aviation-security community was alarmed recently when the TSA put a pilot on a special watch list for having government-issued ammunition in his bag when he tried to board a plane while off duty. The pilot, who had passed rigorous background checks in order to carry a gun, was subject to being pulled aside for searches and not allowed to work as a pilot. He was taken off the list last week, given a letter of censure and allowed to return to work. Said TSA spokesman Mark Hatfield: "We have a thorough review process, and we came...
Most people who come to Allison DuBois are trying to reach the souls of the dead. Paramount Television came to her to find living viewers. DuBois, a Phoenix, Ariz., psychic who lends her services to crime investigations, had earlier worked with Paramount on an unsuccessful reality pilot, Oracles, in which a panel of five seers gave readings to a studio audience. In 2003, the company asked if it could base a drama series on her, to be overseen by Glenn Gordon Caron of Moonlighting fame. The creator of a romantic private-eye series may not have seemed the natural choice...
...Montifiore (Natascha McElhone) belongs to an order of nuns, at odds with the Vatican, that believes the Second Coming is imminent; her reluctant partner, Dr. Richard Massey (Bill Pullman), is a secular academic. But the series leaves no room for doubt that otherworldly events are going on. In the pilot, there is a bona fide miracle (the shadow of Christ appears on a mountainside in Mexico), a Satanist cuts off his own finger without bleeding, and a baby--who may be the Antichrist or Christ reborn--impossibly survives a shipwreck. It's over-the-top stuff...
...producing duo Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, who created the legendarily zeitgeisty TV series thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, now have a pilot with ABC called 1/4life, about a houseful of people in their mid-20s who can't seem to settle down. "When you talk about this period of transition being extended, it's not what people intended to do," Herskovitz says, "but it's a result of the world not being particularly welcoming when they come into it. Lots of people have a difficult time dealing with it, and they try to stay kids as long...