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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Air Traffic Control Descent Runway Thrust 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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Descent Air Traffic Control Tail Pilot 52

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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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

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

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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Pilot Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control 52

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

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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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 Runway Descent Airline 271