World Airline News

JUNE 11, 2024

[link] Austrian Airlines issued this short statement: “On today’s flight OS434 from Palma de Mallorca to Vienna, an Airbus A320 aircraft was damaged by hail.” “The The aircraft encountered a thunderstorm cell on approach to Vienna, which the cockpit crew said was not visible on the weather radar.”

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One Mile at a Time

JULY 23, 2024

The government is increasing oversight at Southwest Airlines, after a slew of concerning (and puzzling) safety incidents… Government scrutinizing Southwest’s safety issues The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently auditing Southwest Airlines’ safety policies, after several recent close calls.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A Big Surprise from a FAA Inspector Air Facts Journal The FAA employs Air Carrier Operations Safety Inspectors to oversea airline operations. On board in a cockpit observer seat was a well known FAA air carrier inspector who oversaw the L-1011 operations at TWA. This board oversaw the training and standards of the airline.

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Aviation Bussiness News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Binter Canarias earned both the title of ERA Airline of the Year and the ERA Regional Connectivity Airline Award. Alfredo Morales, CEO, Binter said: “Receiving ERA’s highest award this year means a lot for Binter, as we celebrate the 35th anniversary of our airline.

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Aerotime

AUGUST 2, 2024

According to EASA, “ground assistance, advanced cockpit design with workload alleviation means [and] pilot incapacitation detection” would be used to compensate for one less pilot during cruise flight. They offer a more comfortable path via which passengers can adapt to the notion of single pilot operations: the softly-softly approach.

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Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

Operated by one of the carrier’s 19-strong fleet of Boeing 747-8 widebodies as Lufthansa flight LH456, the aircraft made a standard approach to runway 24R at around midday on the day of operation. The video which has so far been watched over 1.6 It departed LAX at 16:06 local time and landed in Frankfurt at 11:14 the following morning.

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AV Web

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Jeremiah FELIX is a pilot for a Canadian airline with concerns about the apparent move toward single-pilot airline operations. However, as automation evolves, discussions about potentially reducing the number of pilots in the cockpit—possibly to just one—are intensifying. The Critical Role of Two Pilots in the Cockpit.

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AV Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The prototype is the forerunner of an eventual supersonic airliner called Overture the company hopes to have operational in the next decade.

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Knot Cockpit Approach Pilot 102

Aerotime

JUNE 7, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that interruptions and multitasking led to distractions that resulted in a near-collision incident between a Delta Air Lines and American Airlines aircraft at John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) in New York earlier last year. More of the audio is now available via @liveatc.

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Aviation Bussiness News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Yet, it appears as though the Aerospace and Defence Industry has taken a more considered approach to adopting AI compared to other industries. We are also seeing AI enhancement to dynamic pricing of airline tickets, which improves airline profitability by better maximising yields based on load factors.

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AV Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By Myron Nelson Airline schedule “meltdowns” seem to be in the news of late. The issue itself is fundamental to airline operation and could fill an entire tome to address fully. INFRASTRUCTURE Every day up to 50,000 individual airline flights operate in the U.S. airspace system, carrying upward of 3 million passengers.

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Airline Airlines Clearance Airplanes 103

World Airline News

MAY 26, 2024

A cockpit view pushback, engine start, taxi, take off and departure in a Boeing 737-800 (Boeing 737NG) from the ‘Aalsmeerbaan’, runway 18L. Interesting ATC audio, facts, approach charts and actual call-outs and Boeing procedures were added to provide a sense of everything that is going on inside the cockpit during landing.

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Cockpit Runway Approach Pilot 59

Aviation Bussiness News

JUNE 10, 2024

Air Canada Cargo has chosen to implement web-based software that continually scans the airline’s data to automatically identify specific opportunities with customers. The airline says the integration ensures sales teams have timely and relevant information to improve discussions and serve customers more effectively.

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One Mile at a Time

JULY 20, 2024

Southwest Airlines can’t seem to stay out of the news lately when it comes to concerning safety incidents. On top of that, weather conditions in Tampa weren’t great that day, with rain and strong gusts, so it was a tricky approach. Around 2hr50min after departure, the plane was on approach to runway 10 at Tampa Airport.

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Professional Pilot

JUNE 10, 2024

After the war, this contributed to the development of a god complex for some airline captains. The aircraft had 2 flight data recorders, but no cockpit voice recorder. In 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 experienced an anomaly when the pilots extended the landing gear for their approach to PDX (Intl, Portland OR).

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Cockpit Approach Pilot Runway 75

Flyertalk

AUGUST 15, 2024

Cowboy State Daily reports Alaska Airlines Flight 3491 ended up at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) when the pilots were unable to land at their scheduled arrival city. While the aircraft departed without incident, the trouble began when approaching the Wyoming terminal.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 21, 2024

You’ve been hired by a major airline and you can finally walk through the terminal at the airport in your flight uniform! While both absolutely have their pros and cons, I figured I would share what a recent trip for a major airline was like. You get assigned a block time of day during which the airline can call you in.

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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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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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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 10, 2022

If your goal is to become a commercial pilot and fly for the airlines, then this will help you determine what kind of outcome you may have. The New Normal, How Colors Have Become More Important Below you will find several examples of modern day jet cockpits and the multi paneled approach they use to display system information.

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Cockpit Pilot Weather Runway 52

AV Web

AUGUST 4, 2024

Who among us hasn’t sat in their cockpits in awe of the splendor viewed outside our windshields? 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. We approached JFK, knowing that they were experiencing very low ceilings—CAT II for you gauge jockeys out there.

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Air Facts

JUNE 17, 2024

It is one of the first airplanes designed around the concept of a single pilot in the cockpit, and the level of automation was impressive. The HondaJet is one of the first airplanes designed around the concept of a single pilot in the cockpit. Historically, cockpits were manned by up to five crew members.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. So to prevent gear-up landings, a runway duty officer (RDO) sat by the runway with a flare gun and would fire it ahead of any hapless pilot lined up on final approach with the wheels up.

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Air

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In recent decades, a great technological revolution has taken place in aircraft cockpits. Discover the fascinating history of cockpit instrumentation in our post about the Glass Cockpit. EBT Traditional APPROACH Based on real scenarios and global data analytics. We now learn from the mistakes of absolutely everyone else.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The ILS approach has revolutionized aviation and the types of weather we can fly in. Including how it became the most reliable approach for pilots in aviation history. The ILS is a type of approach pilots use to land. It is a precision approach aid based on two radio beams. This is most likely thanks to the ILS.

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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. What is the best IFR route and which approach can I expect? How is the weather developing? Call the controller or a flight service specialist. Where is the traffic?

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Clearance Weather Approach Runway 52

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

But perhaps Junkers’ best-known design was the versatile tri-engine Ju-52 aircraft, which first flew in 1930 and was used extensively as an airliner and as a military transport aircraft in the 1930s and throughout the Second World War. Morszeck set up a firm in Germany, Junkers Aircraft GmbH , precisely with this goal in mind.

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Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

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. We watched it land and trundle, and continued our approach. This hand is routinely in place during an approach, monitoring autothrottle activity. What’s happening!?”

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 14, 2024

Southwest Airlines has just internally revealed details of an incident that occurred back in April 2024, which can only be described as a very close call. and many pilots of other aircraft were performing missed approaches. Unfortunately this go around was anything but routine. The plane descended all the way down to 400 feet(!!!!)

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Thrust Pilot Weather Runway 120

Ask Captain Lim

AUGUST 18, 2024

There are some air crash investigations that have remained unsolved, The most notable one is Malaysia Airlines MH370. The main wreckage, including the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, remains missing. On September 27, 1977, Japan Airlines Flight 715 also crashed near the Elmina Estate.

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Aerotime

MAY 6, 2024

One of those early pioneers is Lilium, a Germany-based startup, which, almost a decade after it was founded in 2015, is approaching the last key stages before launching its electrically powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. This is why it has partnered with airlines like Lufthansa and Saudia.

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Jet Approach Cockpit Runway 296

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

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! One of the first items on before taxi checklists is to set the take-off flaps well before the aircraft approaches the runway.

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Cabin Crew Runway Knot Clearance 274

Inflight Pilot Training

MAY 21, 2024

If you’re one of those people longing to return to the cockpit and reignite your passion for flying, there’s no better time than now to do just that. Alternatively, you may have reached the mandatory retirement age of 65 and had to leave a cush job with the airlines, and are now looking for a scaled back aerial gig.

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AV Web

JULY 21, 2024

We spent the day with old airline friends at a beach restaurant, drinking non-alcoholic beverages and eating a parade of appetizers. He had spent his airline career carrying packages around the globe, mostly at night. I don’t know how many long nights in the cockpits of various slow-piston and faster-turbine aircraft.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

Most fatalities occurred during takeoff, climb, and go-around rather than the approach to landing. Let’s take a look at how the pros train, and then consider our approach to stall and spin training with a focus on prevention. However, there are some airplanes where the approach to a stall is practiced in flight.

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Aviation Bussiness News

MAY 28, 2024

Airframe manufacturer Airbus will take a more open approach to IT architecture as it strives to develop the truly connected aircraft. Banbutsu works heavily in the automotive industry that is turning the cockpit of the cars into a fully connected space providing a range of digital services to its users.

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Approach Cockpit Airlines Airline 52

Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Corporate pilots who had seen nothing but gray or rain outside the windshield suddenly could see the terrain, obstacles, runways, approaches, their own flightpath ahead, and even traffic in 3D. The SVS reduces landing minima from 200 ft to 150 ft, giving the EFVS a better chance to pick up the runway environment and approach lighting system.

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Flight Deck Primary Flight Display Approach Runway 52