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Captain Walter R. Brady testified that he is a manager of flying for Eastern Airlines, and has been such for 8 years. He has been with Eastern for 23 years. He has been a captain, and an instructor, and a check airman. (T-223). It was brought out that a pilot merely ferrying an empty aircraft receives the same proficiency in flying that a pilot flying an on-line passenger aircraft does. Therefore, there is no reason why an instructor, or check or ferry pilot needs more training to allegedly increase his proficiency by flying one month out of four on line revenue aircraft. 
Q. The fact that there were passengers in back or the number of passengers of the amount of cargo if indeed any was there have no effect essentially on your flying the airplane except for considerations of weight, do they?
A. That's rights.
Q. About the only difference between flying an empty airplane to O'Hare and one with a number of passengers are the messages that you pass along to them as part of goodwill and part of the functions of the captain.
A. Yes. (T-229)
Other testimony illustrates further that test pilots, check pilots, supervisory pilots and instructors fly more than a sufficient number of hours so that any further requirement that they fly one month out of four in on-line revenue flight is completely unnecessary and arbitrary. Further, that due to the difference in the purpose of these various categories of flights and pilots, these check pilots and instructors gain much proficiency by flying under difficult, deliberately created emergency-type conditions, whereas the usual on-line revenue passenger flights add nothing to their skill and