"Newps" wrote in message

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
Maybe true about "commercial" pilots but ex-military accounts for about
70%
of airline jobs.

Total BS. Based on the airline types that stop in for a tower tour I'd be
suprised if it was 30%.

Hmm. By "BS" I suppose you mean Brilliant Statistic, right?

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=3427

Which arguably states, with some authority, somewhere between 60% and 80%.

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Jim Fisher