Ask Captain Lim

MAY 21, 2024

A SIA Boeing 777-300ER taking off at Zurich Photo Credit: Aero Icarus ( [link] ) The Boeing 777 severe encounter with turbulence On May 21, a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 diverted to Bangkok and made an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport after encountering severe turbulence, leaving one dead and about 30 injured.

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AV Web

JUNE 11, 2024

The shattered radome and cracked windscreens of an Austrian Airlines A320 got viral coverage Sunday after the plane encountered hail from a cell on approach to Vienna-Scwechat Airport. The crew issued a Mayday, likely because of the suddenly opaque windscreens, but landed uneventfully.

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AV Web

JUNE 11, 2024

The shattered radome and cracked windscreens of an Austrian Airlines A320 got viral coverage Sunday after the plane encountered hail from a cell on approach to Vienna-Scwechat Airport. The crew issued a Mayday, likely because of the suddenly opaque windscreens, but landed uneventfully.

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AV Web

AUGUST 4, 2024

The most beautiful instrument approach I have done so far in my life was when I was flying a 767 from San Juan to JFK. It was a long overwater flight that had the distinction of being one of the few times I have flown through moderate or worse turbulence non-stop for more than four hours. We worked hard to be able to fly.

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Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

(Courtesy of Louisa Lim) Mr Hamdan Mohamed Khamis (left), a senior first officer with the Seoul-headquartered Asiana Airlines, is one of the coaches of Flight Experience Singapore’s Fear of Flying programme. Nowadays, the people who approach me are more diverse, often coming from a wider range of backgrounds and experiences,” he says.

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Greg Brown's Flying Carpet Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

Whether you’re preparing for turbine ground school, studying for your Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate, priming for a corporate or airline interview, or upgrading into a personal jet or turboprop— The Turbine Pilot’s Flight Manual Fifth Edition is designed for you. Covers all the essentials of turbine aircraft in one book.

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Aerotime

MAY 9, 2024

However, the airline will reduce its offering from New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and will also axe some less popular European flights to free up aircraft capacity to be used elsewhere across the network. As part of this drive, several route cuts will begin to kick in as the northern winter season of 2024 approaches.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 28, 2024

Photo by Ronan Thomas] Recently I flew in an art deco airliner from Duxford to London on a 100-mile round trip. In 2024, we can easily take jet airline flights for granted. But airlines used to be vastly different. In 1934, a new airliner took off: the De Havilland DH.89 I was transported back in time. 89 Dragon Rapide.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

There is a lot more to gain from these NextGen services than just being able to see the location of thunderstorm cells on your iPad in flight, or noting the location of an airliner passing 10 miles in front of you. What is the best IFR route and which approach can I expect? How is the weather developing? Where is the traffic?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

My ride: SX-NEC in the airline's new livery Introduction Flying with Aegean Airlines has been in my mind for a while and when the chance presented itself, I decided to go for it. However I would be flying Economy Class so will I be impressed with the airline? Welcome to my 2024 New Year trip report! Read on to find out.

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Airspeed Junkie

JULY 31, 2024

Passenger experience is significantly enhanced on the Dreamliner due to its spacious cabin design, superior air quality, and technologies that reduce turbulence, allowing for a more enjoyable and less taxing flight. The reduction in fuel burn not only lowers operational costs for airlines but also minimizes the environmental impact.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is my ride, B-58502, the airline's Airbus A350-900. The airline's website/mobile app The airline's website and mobile app are easy to use, user-friendly and the terms and condition are clearly stated so one should not have any issues navigating them. Meanwhile the airline is working hard to operate more flights to the U.S,

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Adventures of Cap'n Aux

JULY 21, 2024

Disclaimer Throughout this post, I will do my best to approach these stories from a perspective of safety , clarifying any possible misnomers, and analyzing how to mitigate future issues. We will merely approach these incidents from the perspective of learning from them to enhance aviation safety.

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Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Touchdown in Europe is planned somewhere between Scotland and Norway as you approach the Netherlands and Germany from the North Sea. As there is so much traffic, the NAT-OTS has been established in order to offer optimum tracks for most traffic, which means passenger airline traffic. The North Atlantic is a non-radar environment.

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Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Touchdown in Europe is planned somewhere between Scotland and Norway as you approach the Netherlands and Germany from the North Sea. As there is so much traffic, the NAT-OTS has been established in order to offer optimum tracks for most traffic, which means passenger airline traffic. The North Atlantic is a non-radar environment.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

At the time of booking, only China Airlines (among the Taiwanese airlines) offered the afternoon flight for the TPE-SIN sector. Is the Economy Class product as competitive with the top tier airlines? This is China Airlines Boeing 747-400 There are more than 100 smaller models on display! Do read on to find out.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 17, 2024

Introduction Once the destination Lisbon was decided, the fun part was deciding which airline to fly. TAP Air Portugal came into my mind immediately as I am intrigued by the airline's history and beautiful livery. The airline's A321neo has 3 different configuration and more on this on my next trip report.

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One Mile at a Time

MAY 24, 2024

A few days ago, a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER encountered severe turbulence between London and Singapore, leading to one fatality, as well as dozens of serious injuries. Following this incident, the airline will be updating its inflight service protocol, in a way passengers will notice.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Welcome to my Delta Airlines 767-400ER Trip report! Introduction At this time of blogging, Delta Airlines offered 2 daily flights to GRU (Sao Paulo), I can chose either to fly to London Heathrow via Atlanta or New York JFK. Premium Select (2-2-2 seating configuration - 20 seats) This is the airline's premium economy class.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 4, 2024

Introduction This trip came about when I spotted some good airfares from Singapore Airlines thanks to social media. Since I am there, I decided to spend a few days in Thessaloniki before returning home from Athens, trying out Sky Express and flying Aegean Airlines once again. Does this make EVA Air not my favourite airline anymore?

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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. AFFF – Aqueous Film-Forming Foam.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 28, 2024

Currently ANA (Not the airline) Aeroportos de Portugal is responsible for the airport and so far it has expanded the airport by building a second terminal which is used exclusively for low cost carriers. The airline offered lounge access and gave us a chance to upgrade to business class but it was an easy decision to skip them.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Innsbruck is one of the most beautiful and spectacular places on earth with an airport that can support a variety of airline equipment up to a small widebody such as the Boeing 767-300ER. For the final approach, I calculated V REF of about 128 was fought with much shear, with airspeed variances of up to 20 to 30 knots, providing a wild ride.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 22, 2024

Introduction Only 2 airlines operate this domestic route, Athens to Thessaloniki, they are Sky Express and Aegean Airlines. Curious about this airline? Well, here is my experience with this airline, both on ground and in-flight. Unfortunately this airline does not have mobile app version. Not user-friendly.

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

An airline pilot was incapacitated immediately upon takeoff of an airliner from the airport. And possible out of nowhere, we may encounter teeth-chattering clear air turbulence. ” You can almost hear the drumbeat behind those lyrics by Lennon and McCartney. And yet it was! followed swiftly. The news was rather sad.

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ABEAM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

We started the game to deviate to the left and the right but after a while nature was winning from us: we could not avoid anymore getting into the clouds which potentially carried ice, turbulence or worse. After some vectoring by Green Bay approach, we were cleared for the RNP runway 30 approach at Appleton.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Note: This trip report is shorter as most of the essential information of the airline's A380 can be found in my previous trip report (Part 1). Anyway, I will be doing a short summary of this flying adventure soon and if you happen to be considering flying on any of the airlines I just flown with, you can check them out.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 7, 2024

Congratulations to the airline! Introduction When this airline first came out into the aviation world, I kept misreading it as Alaska Air, anyone else has this issue? Today (July 2024), the airline has a massive fleet of twenty-three 737 MAX 8 with one 737 MAX-8200 in operation (197-seater, higher capacity aircraft).

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

Welcome to my 2nd flight review on Aegean Airlines! Introduction There are 2 airlines operating on ATH-SKG route and since there is not much of a choice, I decided to fly Aegean Airlines once again, this time flying on the Airbus A320ceo version. The aircraft was on final approach to SKG. My flight departed from gate 2.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For now, Firefly is the only airline that operates at this airport but I suspect once Scoot starts operating the ERJ-190 E2, we might see them flying out of this airport, giving Firefly some competition. About Firefly Firefly is a subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines set up in March 2007 and started commercial flights a month later.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is Gulf Air's A321neo-LR in the airline's retro livery special scheme. A9C-XA) Introduction Looking at my options on which airlines to fly me home from Athens. I could have gone back to Frankfurt and fly back with Singapore Airlines, but that is boring so I decided to fly home from Athens. Welcome on board A9C-XD!

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 10, 2024

Welcome to my latest trip report on my 112th airline! TAP Air Portugal was one of the airlines I wanted to fly so the decision on the airline part was easy. As for the flight to London, this time I decided to go direct and fly the airline that I should have flown long time ago, that is Qantas!

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

The 1,000-foot en route ceiling means that approach minimums never come into question. Bouncing [in turbulent air inside an RV-9A] means fatigue, and that means stress that can lead to poor decision-making and decreased skills… Then there are winds aloft. The two considerations are turbulence and headwinds.

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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. In particular, new hire airline pilot training is equated to trying to get a drink of water from a fire hose. The geared turbofan powers a large ducted fan using a gearbox similar to turboprops.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 8, 2024

Listed below is a summary of each airline and my imaginary award to the airlines in different categories. This is for those who deciding on the airlines to fly, I hope my blog in some ways help you have a better idea choosing the airlines you are considering to fly. So without further ado, let's begin.

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AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Cherokee Six instrument panel Like my airline job, I fly nearly paperless using an iPad Mini and the ForeFlight app for navigation charts. Although not a problem for airliners, flying at high altitude airports presents challenges for pilots of small piston aircraft. Santa Fe is located 6,349 feet above sea level.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This broad scope approach is ultimately needed to help keep our friends, created in the image of God, alive. This approach gives perspective on all factors, including those that might otherwise be ignored or unrecognized. In contrast, this study sought to examine AOA in the context of all accidents. I can teach you in five minutes.”

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