Ask Captain Lim

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A Delta Airlines Boeing 777-200ER at Tokyo Narita Airport. To aid pilots’ recall, they act on the 5 C’s (CCCCC): C rew: Inform all cockpit crew members. C ontroller: Communicate with air traffic control and declare a distress call. The captain opted to return to the Los Angeles International Airport.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 29, 2024

It seems that a few potential causes are most likely: Were the takeoff calculations just not done correctly, or was there a miscommunication in the cockpit, regarding takeoff performance, and how much power had to be applied? As mentioned above, Azul is now investigating this incident, and we’ll see if the results are made public.

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Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose. This long, metal tube connects all the main components of an airplane.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Full Understanding of Air Traffic Control When flying an aircraft, good pilots must have a clear understanding of air traffic management. Ground training will cover the basics of air traffic control and the lingo that pilots and controllers use.

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Cranky Flier

MAY 17, 2024

Airlines and airports are already positioning themselves to stake claim to the new slots before the bill is signed into law. American Flies South for Winter American Airlines AAnounced eight new routes to Latin America and the Caribbean this winter including daily service to both Bridgetown and La Romana. Yeah, me neither.”

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Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

If the co-pilot was lucky, the captain might let them work the radios and help with a few navigational duties, but the phrase “Gear up and Shut up” was considered a normal cockpit environment. And there were plenty of accidents; a few airliner crashes a month, while tragic, were not unheard of. The question of course is why?

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Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

This is an exploration of how NASA research has influenced modern airliners through research and technology. Traffic Management Advisor (TMA) – 1990s: TMA software forecasts arriving air traffic to help controllers plan for safe arrivals during peak periods. You can click through for a larger version of the image.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MAY 14, 2024

Becoming a commercial airline pilot is a dream for many people who are looking for a challenging and rewarding career. If you’re considering pursuing this career, you may be wondering about the salary and qualifications required for different types of airline pilot jobs.

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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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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The two most useful benefits have been ADS-B datalink weather and a real-time traffic display in the cockpit, delivered by the network of ADS-B ground stations in the U.S. Both ForeFlight and FltPlan.com offer GA pilots convenient access to the Pre-Departure Clearance system that the airlines have been using for years.

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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. The airlines would prefer if we lived close to our bases but these hubs are usually in large metropolitan cities and in some cases, we cannot afford to live close in.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 3, 2024

Other roles available in the industry include air traffic controllers, aircraft maintenance engineers, airport operations managers, and avionics technicians. At Leopard Aviation, we train students interested in becoming pilots , but our curriculum also provides a solid foundation for no-less-important careers beyond the cockpit.

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Inflight Pilot Training

JULY 23, 2024

Airlines around the world are struggling to fill cockpit positions with qualified candidates, leading to a massive surge in demand for pilots. Regional airlines, in particular, have been struggling to find pilots, as many pilots move up to better, empty positions at major airlines.

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Aviators of Tomorrow

JUNE 16, 2023

They pursued careers in aircraft design, mechanics, air traffic control, and even entrepreneurship, founding their own aviation companies and flight schools. airline, American Airlines. However, she faced numerous challenges due to gender discrimination and eventually left the industry.

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Tradewind

MAY 17, 2022

Like lawyers gunning for partner or professors aspiring to tenure, the ultimate career goal of many professional pilots is to fly for a major airline or corporate jet operator. In April 2021, for instance, United Airlines announced a noble goal of training 5,000 new pilots by 2030, half of whom would be women or minorities. The result?

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Inflight Pilot Training

MAY 7, 2024

Pilots must be able to work effectively with air traffic controllers, ground crews, and other pilots to ensure safe and successful flights. It’s been shown that being humble contributes to better outcomes with the learning process, as it allows you to be honest with your abilities and progress in the cockpit.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 1, 2024

Daily responsibilities include pre-flight checks, weather analysis, creating and filing flight plans, coordination with ground crews and air traffic controllers, and continuous in-flight monitoring and communication. Obtaining a Commercial Pilot certificate is a fundamental requirement to become a commercial pilot.

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Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

In reality, FAA has broken its own “sterile cockpit” rule, and unless the mature and experienced voices in the room stand up for reason and the cold, hard rules of aviating, navigating, and communicating, the system will continue its “graveyard spiral” to the inevitable consequences. It’s not a social science laboratory. Jason Meister ATP.

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Inflight Pilot Training

AUGUST 6, 2024

Private aviation refers to the use of private aircraft, either owned or chartered, for air transportation. Private aircraft are not operated by commercial airlines and are instead owned by private individuals or companies, or by charter companies that offer their services to clients on a per-flight basis. What Is Private Aviation?

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AV Web

MAY 15, 2024

That said, a controversial measure adding airline slots to Washington’s Reagan National Airport was among the more prominent provisions of the bill. The bill faced much less contention in the House than it had in the Senate, where a string of unrelated controversial amendments threatened to scuttle passage.

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AV Web

MAY 15, 2024

That said, a controversial measure adding airline slots to Washington’s Reagan National Airport was among the more prominent provisions of the bill. The bill faced much less contention in the House than it had in the Senate, where a string of unrelated controversial amendments threatened to scuttle passage.

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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. In decades past, multiple airline crashes were the norm every year, with hundreds dead at a time.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 17, 2024

It will expand critical protections for air travelers, strengthen safety standards, and support pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers.” The package includes language with a requirement for airlines to install 25-hour cockpit voice recorders on new and existing aircraft, up from two hours currently.

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AV Web

MAY 17, 2024

It will expand critical protections for air travelers, strengthen safety standards, and support pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers.” The package includes language with a requirement for airlines to install 25-hour cockpit voice recorders on new and existing aircraft, up from two hours currently.

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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 shut down the Warrior, tidied up the cockpit, and met him at the nose of my airplane. That cannot happen in the FRZ.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 26, 2024

However, it does not qualify the pilot for a job at a major airline, which requires an airline transport pilot (ATP) license. A cargo pilot’s duties may include performing pre-flight checks and inspections, communicating with air traffic control, loading and unloading cargo, and flying the aircraft.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2024

Western Airlines flying over Frankfurt International. Col Halvorsen passed in 2022, so this year his daughter flew in Western Airlines to celebrate the event. photo via Wikipedia) A C-54 dropping candy from the cockpit on tiny parachutes as the aircraft lands in West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift circa 1949.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

The House voted in favor of a reauthorization bill in July that would have included raising the mandatory airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65. But in February, the Senate Commerce Committee rejected that element of the proposed five-year, $105 billion FAA reauthorization measure.

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AV Web

APRIL 29, 2024

The House voted in favor of a reauthorization bill in July 2023 that would have included raising the mandatory airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65. But in February this year, the Senate Commerce Committee rejected that element of the proposed five-year, $105 billion FAA reauthorization measure.

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AV Web

APRIL 29, 2024

The House voted in favor of a reauthorization bill in July 2023 that would have included raising the mandatory airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65. But in February this year, the Senate Commerce Committee rejected that element of the proposed five-year, $105 billion FAA reauthorization measure.

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