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

Yakobchuk Viachelev / Shutterstock One of the last activities you may notice before the doors close will be the flight dispatcher entering the flight deck to hand over any last-minute paperwork, the final passenger and fuel figures, and a finalized load sheet to the flight crew.

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Cabin Crew Runway Clearance Knot 269

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Haynes took the controls and, noting the same control issues, reduced thrust on the number one engine, which resulted in the aircraft rolling out in a wings-level attitude, giving the crew critical time to evaluate the dire situation Flight 232 was facing.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 294

Flight Training Central

MAY 28, 2024

Sitting in the flight deck during the cruise portion of any flight may have a tendency to become monotonous. But as the destination traffic pattern approaches, workload increases dramatically. Air Traffic Controller. VFR approaches to land at night should be accomplished with a steeper descent.

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Crosswind Runway Clearance Air Traffic Control 98

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

At every cabin crew station, where crew members sit during take-off, landing, and during bouts of turbulence, interphones are available for cabin crew members to communicate with each other, as well as with the pilots on the flight deck. Of course, they also double up to act as the PA system for announcements to the passengers.

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Cabin Crew Descent Runway Approach 269

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 104

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

FAA Federal Aviation Administration The FAA is the US federal government agency in charge of aviation standards, air traffic control, airspace safety, and the certification of personnel and aircraft. Then that is BVLOS, even if the drone is just 100 feet away. The list of accepted MOCs is available at the FAA website.

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Pilot Weather Air Traffic Control NOTAMs 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. 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

MARCH 7, 2025

The First Officer, Dionisio Lpez, was nearly as experienced as Carlos with 12,000 flight hours. An Instructor Pilot, Arturo Soley, was also on the flight deck, to monitor the performance of this new plane for the airline. They were having fun, showing passengers their new, modern, flight deck, which was allowed then.

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Flight Deck Pilot Air Traffic Control Weather 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Its wisdom has been applied to everything from home life to business dealings and has its place on the flight deck as well. If unable to raise Air Traffic Control, provide as many details of your location as possible so that help can be provided. When an emergency strikes, seconds matter. D Declare.

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Flight Deck Approach Air Traffic Control Final Approach 100

Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

A meteorologist from Austrocontrol, who supply air traffic control in Austrian airspace, has claimed that the thunderstorm cell was visible and pilots had been warned of the dangerous weather conditions. Airline photograph from inside the cockpit of the A320, showing the damage to the windshields.

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Airlines Airline Weather Cockpit 97

Aeroclass Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Therefore, it is vital for the pilots, air traffic control , and other aviation personnel to be familiar and clear with the airport layout and regulations, especially the critical and busy areas including the runways and the taxiways. Each of these runways has the same heading of 274.4

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Runway Air Traffic Control Flight Deck Drag 93

Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Keep interaction with passengers, other tasks you might want to perform during your flight, or even management of the resources used in the flight deck—such as an electronic flight bag (EFB) device—to periods where the workload is minimal and you don’t sacrifice attention necessary to complete more critical tasks.

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Pilot Weather Approach Air Traffic Control 97

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

When these are not taking place, qualified and registered airline pilots, dispatchers, and air traffic controllers can ride with us. He has also put all of us pilots in precarious positions as commuters and pilots allowing jump seaters into our flight decks. No pilots talk or operate the way he did.

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Flight Deck Cockpit 52

Jetwhine

JUNE 24, 2024

Pursuing my schooling on computer-aided flight plans, usually generated by an electronic flight bag (EFB—see Are You Current with the New Airman Certification Standards? for my ACS motivation), has led me to an FAA advisory circular, Use of Flight Deck Displays of Digital Weather and Aeronautical Information.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Weather Flight Plan Flight Deck 52

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

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. There are different levels of warning systems, as well as logic behind the warning system inhibition during certain phases of flight.

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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. This rule aims to prevent distractions and maintain the highest level of safety.

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Cockpit Pilot Air Traffic Control Flight Deck 52

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

Flightradar24 At 00:37 local time, the 747 freighter was cleared to take off from runway 33R by Riyadh air traffic controllers. However, for reasons yet to be determined, the crew of the Air Atlanta cargo plane began their takeoff roll from taxiway K. The aircraft accelerated down taxiway K, seemingly intending to take off.

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Tarmac Runway Cargo Air Traffic Control 294

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

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. This finding highlighted the role of communication, decision-making, and leadership in cockpit behavior and the resulting accidents.

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Flight Plan Knot Runway Airplanes 104

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Then 383 passengers boarded for the flight, making for a total of 398 people on board. On the flight deck, an instructor pilot sat in the right seat and was Pilot Flying for the first leg. The air traffic controller asked them to move their holding pattern further to the west.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 82

AV Web

MARCH 4, 2025

The Autoland process automatically selects the nearest suitable airport for landing, navigates to the airport, coordinates with air traffic control, flies the appropriate approach, lands, and shuts down on the runway. Autoland also activates automatically if the system determines the pilot is unresponsive.

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Air Traffic Control Flight Deck Descent Runway 64