Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Batik Air 737-800 vs Malaysia Airlines 737-800 It was formerly known as Malindo and I have done a few flights with Malindo and you can check out my last flight with the airline (2016) over here. Introduction It was an easy decision to decide which airline would fly me back from Kuala Lumpur.

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Ask the Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

Jet engines don’t like this low-density air either, producing less thrust. Together, this dictates higher takeoff and landing speeds — which, in turn, increases the amount of required runway. How much so will vary with the temperature and runway length. Extreme heat is no fun for airlines or their customers.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

On the 9th of August 2023, a VX4 crashed at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire during a test flight over the runway. They already have orders for up to 1,000 aircraft, with customers including American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and AirAsia. Then the pilot carefully climbed to 30 feet above the runway.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

This airline is operating a massive fleet of over 550 aircraft (July 2024) excluding the wet lease aircraft of 2 Turkish Airlines's Boeing 777-300ER and damp lease of 6 Qatar Airways Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. This is Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER painted in Indigo's livery. Welcome to my trip report on Indigo!

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Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

United Airlines DC-10 Photo Credit: Kplastique (Wikimedia Commons) What can you do when the hydraulic system in your plane fails? On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10, crash-landed at Sioux City Airport after a catastrophic failure of its tail engine had caused a loss of all hydraulic control.

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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. An Instructor Pilot, Arturo Soley, was also on the flight deck, to monitor the performance of this new plane for the airline.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

We both had a good chuckle, then we lurched out of the parking spot as I tested the toe brakes for the first time and began to waddle our way to the runway in the mighty Cessna 150. How they came to a stop holding short of the runway generally gave a preview as to how they would handle a plane for the rest of the flight.

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Rudder Runway Altimeter Pilot 78

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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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 9, 2024

We learn all about aerodynamics, thrust, drag, lift, and gravity, study flight manuals, emergency procedures, and FARs, take oral exams and check rides, and constantly review everything we can find about flying. It was one of the few in the area that had a rotating beacon and runway lights.

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Aviation Bussiness News

AUGUST 16, 2024

The centre will include not only the hangar but also offices, tool storage areas, and specialised zones for key part replacements, such as engines, APU systems, landing gear, and thrust reversers.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Douglas Aircraft Company was exploring various designs for a short-range airliner to complement their long-range airliners during the late 1950s. The initial idea was that of a four-engine aircraft, which was scrapped due to a lack of interest from the airlines. With a modified wing having a span of 28.44 meters Wingspan 28.44

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Douglas Aircraft Company were exploring various designs for a short-range airliner to complement their long-range airliners during the late 1950s. The initial idea was that of a four-engine aircraft, which was scrapped due to a lack of interest from the airlines. DC-9 in service with Delta Airlines.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 8, 2024

As the airplane is rolling down the runway, air is passing over and under the wings. Among other critical problems, this can lead to the airplane not being able to take off or land with the amount of runway available. Thrust Thrust is our forward motion. Lift We’ll start with my personal favorite — lift. Simple as that!

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Drag Lift Thrust Airplanes 52

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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Airline Airlines Runway Final Approach 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

We both had a good chuckle, then we lurched out of the parking spot as I tested the toe brakes for the first time and began to waddle our way to the runway in the mighty Cessna 150. How they came to a stop holding short of the runway generally gave a preview as to how they would handle a plane for the rest of the flight.

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Rudder Runway Altimeter Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

However, there was still a gap in urban travel since airplanes needed long runways, and helicopters, while versatile, were slow and limited in range. They saw potential in the Rotodyne to transport troops and supplies quickly without needing runways in war zones. Thus, the idea of combining the best features of both was born.

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Runway Drag Airplanes Knot 59

AeroSavvy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A flight crew prepares a Boeing 767 for flight Every airline develops its own preflight procedures. Captain, first officer, and international relief officer preflight task assignments are different at every airline. Airlines are moving toward electronic maintenance logbooks. Every airline develops its own preflight flows.

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Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

Cleared for takeoff! ‘Set thrust.’ ’ There we go, rattling on runway 07R. We are very light without cargo, so in no time we reach the speed to rotate off the runway. We come from the northwest, and fly over the airport before joining the righthand circuit of runway 02. First landing is ‘good!’

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you are lucky, you might fly one of the airline's aircraft painted in the Pokemon special livery. As I had already flown with Starflyer and Peach, I looked the my other options and they are Solaseed Air, Jetstar Japan, Sky Airlines, Japan Airlines and it's subsidiaries and ANA. Passenger's pick up point at the ground level.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Anti-torque pedals manage the tail rotor’s thrust, countering the main rotor’s torque to maintain directional control and stability. Take-off involves accelerating along a runway to achieve lift-off speed, followed by climbing to a designated cruising altitude. Why is helicopter flight control more challenging?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

At this time of blogging) Air India and Vistara will be merged into one airline, with Air India branding continue to exist. Vistara's flight code, UK will no longer exist and so will the airline's website which would direct passengers to Air India's website for booking and redemption. Fortunately, my flight was not affected.

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Credit: Cayla McLeod] Douglas DC-3 : Todays commercial airliners dont excite me, but the airliner that changed the world certainly does. Although todays airline pilots might scoff at the DC-3, true aviators could never. Airliners these days can’t even compare to the looks of the Boeing 707. A time capsule, indeed.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 15, 2024

This is Hainan Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner operating on Changsha to London Heathrow route. Japan Airlines Boeing 777-300ER getting ready for departure to Tokyo Haneda Airport. The airline's Airbus A350-1000 The airline's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Qantas Lounge is located near our departure gate, gate 1.

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AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. The autopilot/autothrottle system will use pitch and/or thrust to maintain the speed commanded by the Command Bug. The speeds are based on aircraft weight and performance (affected by runway and weather).

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Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed Knot Altimeter 52

Fly with Eva

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

So many times I flew the ILS to runway 25R, with the beautiful skyline of Barcelona on the righthand side. The fire hose In my previous airline I never got to see the head office or any of the operational departments. But the new airline has all of its departments, including the simulators and management, at one location.

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Approach Flight Deck Cargo Pilot 52

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. After 50 minutes, we were taxiing to the runway.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Pilot 52

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

According to Airbus, if takeoff is aborted at V1 (the maximum speed at which a rejected takeoff can be initiated), the aircraft “must be able to be stopped before the end of the runway, without exceeding the maximum energy the brakes can absorb”.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The pilots radioed in to say they were aborting the takeoff but to send out emergency equipment as they were going off the end of the runway. The aircraft continued to hurtle down the 8,000 ft runway, overrunning the end and crashing through the airports boundary fence. Air traffic controllers saw sparks coming from the plane.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the inexpensive thrill of soaring in a glider to the massive expense of a commercial airliner, there is a lot to consider regarding the cost of the flight. Large Private Jets / Regional Jets: $10 million – $80 million Commercial Airliners: $80 million – over $400 million How Much Do Airplanes Cost? million – $8.8 million to $8.8

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Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

And there were plenty of accidents; a few airliner crashes a month, while tragic, were not unheard of. Nearly 50 years after NASA’s groundbreaking research, most accidents in non-airliner flights are still attributed to pilot error, indicating that much work is yet to be done in this sector. At its takeoff weight of 23,916 lbs.,

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Flight Plan Knot Runway Airplanes 105

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. The runway came out worst, with a 720-metre scrape, about 2,350 feet, two metres left of the centre line. I still can’t watch the video without wincing.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 76

Ask the Pilot

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

November 1, 2024 Forgive me for being morbid, but did you know that no fewer than six major airline crashes occurred on Halloween? On Halloween morning, 1979, Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashed in Mexico City killing 73 people. The crew attempted to land on a closed runway in the fog. That’s right, six.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 27, 2025

Welcome to my trip report on China Airlines Part 1 Trip Report! Harris Introduction I decided to travel to Taiwan and Japan to fly numerous airlines and add new cities into my flight logbook. SIN-TPE (China Airlines A350) - This Trip report 2. OKA-HND (Japan Airlines A350-900) - Coming up soon 6.

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

An airline pilot was incapacitated immediately upon takeoff of an airliner from the airport. During the takeoff mode, the biggest one of these emergencies being loss of thrust (loss of engine power). Thrown in an occupied runway or contanimated runway and the whole calculation is turned on its head.

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Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

He told me we were initially directed to divert to Portland, then Vancouver, British Columbia after they closed the airspace, but since our airline was not serving Vancouver, we would have no company support when we arrived. They’re probably not getting any information from the airline on our status or where we are.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, there can be little doubt that, over the course of the year, airline safety has continued to reach new levels, with fewer accidents, fewer aircraft being written off, and fewer fatalities. This list is not exhaustive, however. KITTIKUN YOKSAP / Shutterstock After touching down, the A350 struck the DHC-8.

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Runway Airline Airlines Horizontal Stabilizer 258

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Clear weather, everything as usual, and the airfield quiet – just ourselves following a BA 747 to the runway. At night the relationship between airliner and air traffic control changes because less can be seen in the dark, rather like low cloud or fog, but not as serious. Jumbo on the runway, be down in a few minutes.”

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 89