Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

is one of the simplest and best known federal aviation regulations, and it clearly defines the most essential job as a pilot: to be the boss for the entire flight. Consider the amazing picture below, taken on the flight deck of a Boeing 314 flying boat over 80 years ago.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Approach Airplanes 95

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 Knot Clearance 267

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 98

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Modern commercial airliners have complicated cabin air conditioning systems , as well as other electrical cabling and pipework that keep all the systems on the aircraft functioning. EQRoy / Shutterstock This is a regular source of passenger frustration on certain airlines. All of this hardware needs to be accommodated somewhere.

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Cabin Crew Descent Runway Approach 267

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 21, 2025

Thankfully, I invested in a good starter headset before officially beginning my training, but I can only imagine the (entirely avoidable) challenge it would have been to attempt learning to fly without being able to understand half of what my instructornot to mention air traffic controllers and other pilotssaid.

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Pilot General Aviation Cockpit Air Traffic Control 103

Fear of Landing

MARCH 7, 2025

TACA flight 110, 24 May 1988 TACA (Transportes Aereos Centro Americanos) was El Salvadors national airline. It had a complicated history, starting in 1930s Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as a cargo airline. The First Officer, Dionisio Lpez, was nearly as experienced as Carlos with 12,000 flight hours.

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Flight Deck Pilot Air Traffic Control Weather 52

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

The cockpit, also called the flight deck, is where pilots use electronic flight instruments as part of a primary flight display. They will also communicate with air traffic control about any flight safety alerts should an issue arise with the electronic flight instrument displays.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Captain Laura

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To learn of this airline captain who was dealing with mental health issues try and attempt to shut off the engines of a regional flight aircraft is truly unbelievable. link] [link] [link] [link] Jump Seating: As pilots and flight attendants, we often do not live where we are based. So lets dissect this a bit.

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Flight Deck Cockpit 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. Downstream consumers of bleed air include cabin environmental and pressurization systems, anti-ice and de-ice systems, and in some cases charging accumulators associated with hydraulic, fuel, or water systems.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control 52

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In 2014, a final rule was established prohibiting flight crew members from using personal wireless communications devices or laptop computers for personal use while at their duty station on the flight deck during aircraft operation. Airlines and flight schools may have stricter policies.

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Cockpit Pilot Air Traffic Control Threshold 52

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 291

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For perspective, aircraft used to have three crewmembers on the flight deck: two pilots and a flight engineer,” Shalopanova said. The reduction in crew means both pilots must decide their work more effectively to balance responsibility and check each other as the flight goes on.”

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Flight Deck Approach 246

Aerotime

MAY 1, 2024

On April 22, 2024, an Air Atlanta Europe Malta Boeing 747-400 freighter operating on behalf of Saudi Arabian Airlines was scheduled to depart from Riyadh King Khalid International Airport (RUH) and fly to Nairobi (NBO) in Kenya.

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Tarmac Runway Cargo Air Traffic Control 291

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. Honeywell’s Anthem integrated flight deck has driven a cascade of upcoming solutions for aircraft, including the Pilatus PC-12. “Can you accept the visual?”

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Approach Air Traffic Control Runway Flight Deck 92

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On the 9th of July 2024, flight LA8073, operated by the Chilean airline LATAM, departed from Milano Malpensa for a passenger flight to São Paulo, Brazil. Then 383 passengers boarded for the flight, making for a total of 398 people on board. The crew gives the final fuel figures to the load controller.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 97

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Operating the flight was Global Exec Aviation, a charter company based in Long Beach, California. On the flight deck that day were James Bland and Sarah Lemmon. The aircraft was a two-year-old Learjet 60 with only 108 flight hours on the aircraft. Air traffic controllers saw sparks coming from the plane.

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Runway Knot Thrust Air Traffic Control 244

Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

And there were plenty of accidents; a few airliner crashes a month, while tragic, were not unheard of. It also led to the birth of cockpit resource management (CRM); a process designed to train crews to utilize all the flight deck’s human resources effectively. The question of course is why?

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Flight Plan Knot Runway Airplanes 104