Aircrew

For aviation personnel includes persons who actively, commercial or private use on the manned aviation, participate. The aviation personnel is to distinguish according to flight personnel and ground staff.

For flying personnel include, for example:

• Pilots
• Flight Attendant

For ground personnel include, for example:

• Technical personnel, such as in aircraft maintenance (eg aircraft mechanic )
• Flight dispatcher

The training and licensing of aviation personnel is regulated by the Regulation on aviation personnel. In Germany, the Federal Aviation Authority for aviation personnel is responsible, which checks the conditions and capabilities of aviation personnel and issues licenses. In addition, there is almost for every profession in the field of aviation, a variety of educational and professional requirements.

Mobile staff

The aircrew is a part of the staff of an airline and works in aircraft that are in flight.

It counts for aviation personnel and consists of different professions or functionaries:

• Pilot ( the official name of the pilot's license, " a commercial airline pilot ," legal name in Germany, " pilot ", also colloquially " captain " )
• Co-Pilot (legal German title: "Second pilot ", also: " Co - Pilot", "First Officer " )
• Flight engineer (only in some, mostly older types )
• Flight Attendant
• In military aviation, among other weapons system officer, navigator, loadmaster, observer, gunner, radio operator

As the ground crew (if contact with the public ) carries the flight attendants usually a special clothing ( uniform).

Airship and Space

In airships, the term crew on flying personnel is common positions here include Navigator, purser, flight attendants and various military personnel.

In space, the term refers to the ship's crew team on board a manned spaceship. When the U.S. space shuttle this example, consists of a commander, a pilot and several specially trained for the flight mission specialists, while it is composed with the Russian Soyuz spaceships mostly from commanders, flight engineer and sometimes a space tourists. A crew is selected from a larger group of astronauts candidates because of high training effort in general, years before the space flight. Depending on the importance of the mission and replacements can be formed that can replace a health prevented astronauts just before the start.