Fear of Landing

MARCH 21, 2025

On the 11th of March, the NTSB released an aviation investigation preliminary report on the mid-air collision between PSA Airlines flight 5342 and a Sikorsky UH60L US Army helicopter. Hains Point is a non-compulsory reporting point: pilots are not required to report passing the landmark, but the controller may request that they do so.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Descent 58

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

However, flying a small plane often means operating at much lower altitudes, usually between 5,000 and 10,000 feet, depending on weather conditions, terrain, and air traffic. Flying a small plane at lower altitudes allows pilots to navigate visually and avoid the complexities of high-altitude air traffic control.

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

I’ve been intrigued by the photographs being passed around of the Austrian Airlines Airbus A320 that flew into a hailstorm. Austrian Airlines, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Austria. The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet.

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Airlines Airline Weather Cockpit 97

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 3, 2025

For the final segment of our royal visit to Versailles , I flew United Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 first class on the 2hr20min flight from Washington (IAD) to Miami (MIA). United entertainment selection 737 MAX United entertainment monitor 737 MAX In theory, United also has Channel 9, where you can listen to air traffic control audio.

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Narrow-Body Aircraft Air Traffic Control Flight Deck Airlines 62

Fear of Landing

MAY 24, 2024

A few days ago (21st of May 2024), Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 encountered heavy turbulence on a passenger flight from London-Heathrow to Singapore. Airline photograph of cabin after the passengers had been disembarked. Clear air turbulence is a rare but increasing weather phenomenon which is linked to climate change.

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Turbulence UTC Weather Airlines 94

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Welcome onboard For some people, traveling by air has become purely routine, much like traveling by bus or train. For others, flying on a commercial airliner may be a once-a-year event when heading off on vacation. We will now begin our tour through a commercial airline flight, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey!

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Cabin Crew Runway Clearance Knot 269

Air Facts

JUNE 12, 2024

Joe was just short of celebrating his 50th anniversary as an employee of Hawaiian Airlines when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. He asked to be taken home to Kona on his own airline, but the only aircraft available was one of our 304 seat Trans-Pacific DC-10s. But this was Hawaii, and we not the usual airline.

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Inflight Pilot Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This regimented approach can be beneficial for students pursuing aviation as a full-time career, as it is often designed to meet airline and professional pilot training standards. Radio communication with Air Traffic Control (ATC) will be introduced, as well as how to taxi the aircraft safely and efficiently.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

It is not uncommon for air traffic control to pose this question to pilots on IFR flight plans approaching certain airports when the weather is VFR. Courtesy: Jeppesen] Visual into KTEB One of the first guided visual approaches was created for the descent to Runway 1 at Teterboro Airport ( KTEB ) in New Jersey.

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Approach Air Traffic Control Runway Flight Deck 92

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, I had forgotten that we live in a cynical culture where the news media and Hollywood movie producers have convinced their audiences to trust no one in positions of authority, including airline captains! We were nearing the LAX airport at 18,000 feet and starting to get busy with the descent into SAN.

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Indicated Airspeed Air Traffic Control Airplanes Descent 98

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

January 8, 2024 POOR ALASKA Airlines. This is the plane that spent two years on hiatus after the crashes of Lion Air flight 510 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, until its twice deadly stall-avoidance system was redesigned. If the fuselage is breached, that squeezed-together air rushes out. It looks bad, I know.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 1, 2024

There are numerous jobs in aviation besides just airline pilot. Career opportunities include business aviation pilot, flight instructing, cargo airlines, military flying, law enforcement and many more. You can set your own schedule, use airports that airlines don’t serve and leave the hassles of security lines behind.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Airplanes Air Traffic Control 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Shortly after that, the Cheetah starts a gentle descent. Are you talking to air traffic control right now?” After the accident, the NTSB determined the probable cause to be “partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing, which resulted in a descent and impact with terrain.” At 7:23 a.m.,

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Pilot Descent Knot Air Traffic Control 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Shortly after that, the Cheetah starts a gentle descent. Are you talking to air traffic control right now?” After the accident, the NTSB determined the probable cause to be “partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing, which resulted in a descent and impact with terrain.” At 7:23 a.m.,

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Pilot Descent Knot Air Traffic Control 52

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Image: Stages in a turbine engine Geared Turbofan – A New Class In recent years a hybrid engine has entered airline service. Descent planning can be complicated and needs to be done more than 100 miles from the destination. Pilots need to be very proficient with air traffic control procedures and in radio communication.

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AV Web

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

ERIDS is basically the Google for controllers who need to find strange airline callsigns, aircraft types, fixes, charts, airspace, and thank God, ATC procedures. Facing the Medusa We have a kid on our crew who is an absolute rockstar air traffic controller, and I mean that in both a good way and a bad way.

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VFR On Top Clearance Approach Weather 59

Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

Witness the implementation/maturing of SWIM (System Wide Information Management), active enroute domestic CPDLC, and increasingly full-procedure “climb via” and “descent via” clearances. These steps reduce controller workload and are efficient and predictable for spacing and arrival sequencing. Jim Mignogna Comm-Multi-Inst.

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Clearance Pilot Weather Approach 40

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. I requested a descent to warmer air at 5,000 feet from Elmira Approach. But no ice formed that morning.

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

Alliance – An arrangement between a group of airlines agreeing to cooperate on a substantial level. Codeshare – a marketing arrangement in which an airline places its designator code on a flight operated by another airline , and sells tickets for that flight. It warns pilots of a too high or too low descent path.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 52

Aerotime

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Japan Airlines flight 516 was landing at Haneda Airport (HND) when the Airbus A350-900 collided with a Japan Coast Guard DHC Dash 8 that was already on the runway. The investigations complete findings, when published, could have far-reaching implications for future commercial air operations. JetBlues $3.8

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Turbulence Runway Airlines Airline 130

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The aircraft involved in the Vilnius incident was operated by Spanish all-cargo airline Swift Air under contract to DHL. years old, having first been delivered as a passenger plane to now-defunct carrier Australian Airlines in October 1993 and was later operated by Qantas. The aircraft, registered EC-MFE, was 31.1

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Final Approach Approach Instrument Landing System Runway 334

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 23, 2025

I often share air traffic control clips of interesting interactions between pilots and air traffic controllers. First for some context, GlobalX is a charter airline based in Miami, which was founded in 2018 (at least in its current form).

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Approach Runway 80

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2024

A United Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner was forced to return to Singapore Airport having reported an engine failure after take-off. The crew then shut down the engine in question and initiated a descent back towards Singapore. years old, having been delivered new to the airline by Boeing in August 2015.

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Air Traffic Control Descent Runway Airlines 269