I fail to see the fun of it. Do they really hope they're going to blind a pilot badly and see a crash?

All those people caught in the act should be tried for attempted pre-meditated mass muder if you ask me...

Yes. One of my friends took flying lessons whilst working as cabin crew working uo to becoming instrument rated allowing him to fly direct point to point and out of sight of the ground.

He maintained his skills by eventually becoming a flight instructor, still at the private pilot level, and when the airline industry recovered from the 9-11 attacks of 2001 he was accepted for commercial pilot training with a freight airline. He then resigned his cabin crew post, took a pay cut as trainee pilots earn far less than Pursers, and today is a senior pilot and instructor. Still for a freight airline, but he loves that as he gets a far wider variety of work than he'd get flying passengers and also much more hands-on flying as many of the airfields he flies to lack the navigation aids which allow far more automation in landing and take-offs.

He also enjoys it as he flies down through Africa a lot and there's very little ATC to tell him what to do and when to do it.

Go for it!

Absolutely not, if it is a 747 or ANY OTHER autopilot or type of airplane .

Pilots engage the autopilot THEN monitor the progress of the flight -
Flight instruments are crosschecked (captain's and first officer's) -
They verify that the operating autopilot (say nº 2) is not diverging from the flight path of nº 1 or nº 3 -
And that it does not deviate from the parameters such as flight level selected -
And if at each waypoint, the autopilot turns to the proper programmed heading -

Nothing like movies, mobile phones, internet or take a snooze -
That is the stupid imagination of idiots who know NOTHING about airplanes and how pilots fly -

Your question undoubtedly comes from here...

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index...

Others have given excellent answers here, though you may be missing the broader concept of what electromagnetic radiation is and why it can hurt you. All radars (not just air search), use microwave energy. All microwave energy is only one type of ELECTROMAGNETIC energy. Other examples of electromagnetic energy include natural ELF from the Earth, visible light, infrared rays (the phenomenon we most often feel as heat), radio signals, cell-phone and Wi-fi signals, (also considered radio signals) ultra-violet rays, x-rays, and many more. The sun is the largest producer of natural electromagnetic energy in our solar system! You know what happens when you stay out in the sun too long, or put food in the microwave oven. That's one over-riding characteristic of ALL electromagnetic energy: in the right doses, it heats things up, particularly "soft" substances like tissue and liquid. But an industrial laser uses em energy that can heat and cut through sheet metal! So you can see why it can be dangerous to living things.

A radar that is powerful enough can burn you, and even kill you. The worst would probably be a fire-control radar, such as would be found on a naval warship or military aircraft. It's a concentrated, fixed narrow beam of energy, transmitted in many kilowatts or megawatts, and if you stood directly in front of it, it could burn you to death in a matter of seconds. On the other hand, a small radar such as on a private boat uses very low power, and you may only sense a slight warming, if anything.

Cell phone tower antennae also use microwaves, but they are transmitted at power levels far lower than most radars. The signal also fans out from the antenna, whereas a radar signal can be very narrow and concentrated in power. However, tower climbers will still de-energize the antenna mast before repairing or installing additional antennae. Working that close to an ENERGIZED antenna for 3 hours might not kill a worker outright, but it could raise his body temperature enough to give him symptoms of heat stress... namely fatigue and a fever, and this has happened several times.

It doesn't have to be microwaves, either. There have been telecom workers injured by em radiation while working on plain old FM radio towers. (It turns out VHF radiation is actually worse for humans than microwaves). Anybody who works with medical x-ray equipment knows how dangerous those devices can be if improperly used. It all depends on how much electrical current is used to produce the radiation, what frequency is being used, how close you are to the "thing" radiating it, how long you stand there getting nuked, and how much radiation your body actually absorbs.

Sorry for the rant, but you asked (again), and I love this stuff.

It appears that Skipper has repeated answers to you, but you keep on typìng a same question.
Do you have difficulties to understand English?

This is against the TOS of Y!A.
You are being reported.

This has been answered several times already, but I'll give it a shot.

Pilots licenses are recognized internationally, at least by all members of the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). Most countries are members of the ICAO.

To allow the licenses to be recognized, they have to have the same training requirements. The minimum hours required for a Private Pilot, Commercial or ATP are pretty much the same everywhere. The only variation would be that the minimum for the PPL and CPL are reduced a little if you receive all of your training in an approved "academy" - but you are only talking about a few hours, and realistically no one completes the training in the minimum number of hours.

So unless North Korea is issuing pilot certificates after 20 hours of training, the answer is that the is not much difference between the rules from country to country - they all follow ICAO standards.