Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

I’ve been intrigued by the photographs being passed around of the Austrian Airlines Airbus A320 that flew into a hailstorm. Austrian Airlines, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is the flag carrier of Austria. The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet. But not just that.

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One Mile at a Time

APRIL 2, 2025

Whats exciting is that the airline recently started taking delivery of 787s , representing a new era for the carrier. The roughly five-year-old Dreamliner was intended for Chinas Hainan Airlines, then flew for Vietnams Bamboo Airways, and then it was transfered to Austrian. Austrian is one of the few airlines to have inflight chefs.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

They already have orders for up to 1,000 aircraft, with customers including American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and AirAsia. The prototype lifted off, hovered and flew at a speed of 40 knots before landing. The pilot then increased acceleration with a target of seven knots ground speed. A vertical descent rate of 19.5

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Even though synthetic vision might help me perform an emergency descent to a valley that might not be cloud filled, that’s pretty sketchy as a risk-mitigation strategy. Also, from when I lived out West, there was the mountaintop clearance guideline—1,000 feet for every 10 knots of wind, with 30 knots meaning no-go.

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Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. Instead of a gentle breeze out of the west, we had over 20 knots of headwind blowing out of the south. Obviously, the winds aloft were nowhere near forecast. I didnt know.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

The airlines use their high-fidelity flight simulators to great advantage, and when combined with stick shakers, multicrew flight decks, and low-speed and stall-warning systems, the training is excellent. Not to worry: The airliner you are flying has probably not entered a stall in its entire 20- to 30-year service lifespan.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It's not everyday you have a new airline and from a hindsight, I should flown with this airline at the start of its operation but whatever it is the end of the airline's operation happened and from the public's point of view, it was shocking. After a while, I gave up, I decided to book with Air Asia instead.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 11, 2025

There are numerous jobs in aviation besides just airline pilot. Career opportunities include business aviation pilot, flight instructing, cargo airlines, military flying, law enforcement and many more. You can set your own schedule, use airports that airlines dont serve and leave the hassles of security lines behind.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Welcome to this unusual trip report featuring Delta Airlines and Virgin Atlantic! Photo: Rainer Bexten) Introduction For those who have been following my flights will know that this was supposed to be my Delta Airlines flight from Boston to London Heathrow. This is the Delta Airlines check-in counter for international flights.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

ATC was in communication with the pilot, as the airplane entered several right- and left-hand banks and rolls and entered a steep descent while in a bank angle. As the pilot responded, the airplane bank angle increased to 90 degrees and the airspeed exceeded 260 knots, then the aircraft experienced structural failure and hit the water.

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Northstar VFR

AUGUST 11, 2024

By Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI When I began flight training, I had no intention of flying for the airlines or becoming a flight instructor. The standards for slow flight on a Private Pilot checkride are: maintain the specified altitude, ±100 feet; specified heading, ±10°; airspeed, +10/-0 knots; and specified angle of bank, ±10°.

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

Also, we noted that our fuel consumption was significantly higher than calculated due to headwinds which were 10 to 15 knots higher than forecast, giving us a ground speed of about 120 knots. Through the Lufthansa airliner, we got a new clearance: from present position direct ES and than BIEG. So we could continue to Iceland.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 1, 2024

There are numerous jobs in aviation besides just airline pilot. Career opportunities include business aviation pilot, flight instructing, cargo airlines, military flying, law enforcement and many more. You can set your own schedule, use airports that airlines don’t serve and leave the hassles of security lines behind.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From simple mechanical linkages in small aircraft to high-tech fly-by-wire systems in airliners, ailerons have evolved with aviation itself. You might be surprised to learn that tiny four-seater Cessna 172s and 140-passenger Boeing 707 airliners both use simple cables for moving the ailerons and elevators!

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Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

After 11 hours of flight during our descent to initiate an approach, the airport closed for Category I (CAT I) approaches due to weather. During descent, we monitored the number 2 engine, and when we were at a comfortable distance from the airport we performed a precautionary shutdown and secured the engine. Serkan Bilgin ATP/Helo.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. The vertical descent rate reached the data-recording limit of 9,999 feet per minute. The listed entry airspeed range is 87 to 97 knots.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. The vertical descent rate reached the data-recording limit of 9,999 feet per minute. The listed entry airspeed range is 87 to 97 knots.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The 58-year-old pilot had about 7,000 hours of flight time, built up as a respected Marine Corps F/A-18 fighter pilot and United Airlines first officer. The pilot flew into a gap between ridgelines and performed a series of rapid climbs, turns, and descents. Airspeed rapidly swinging back and forth between 60 and 160 knots.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The 58-year-old pilot had about 7,000 hours of flight time, built up as a respected Marine Corps F/A-18 fighter pilot and United Airlines first officer. The pilot flew into a gap between ridgelines and performed a series of rapid climbs, turns, and descents. Airspeed rapidly swinging back and forth between 60 and 160 knots.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Naturally, my first officer and I got a good laugh from this as our 757 was cruising along effortlessly at about 300 knots indicated airspeed, and was not yawing towards the supposedly dead engine. We were nearing the LAX airport at 18,000 feet and starting to get busy with the descent into SAN.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In the 1930s, Island Airways operated Ford Trimotors on one of the shortest airline routes ever created between what is now Erie-Ottawa International Airport, Kelley's Island, and the Bass Islands. As I passed Kelley's Island, wind streaks in the water out of the southwest indicated a wind of six to eight knots, exactly as forecast.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Shortly after that, the Cheetah starts a gentle descent. It’s only getting 1,700-1,800 rpm and I am going 75 knots.” Pilot: “I am only going 70 knots now. After the accident, the NTSB determined the probable cause to be “partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing, which resulted in a descent and impact with terrain.”

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Shortly after that, the Cheetah starts a gentle descent. It’s only getting 1,700-1,800 rpm and I am going 75 knots.” Pilot: “I am only going 70 knots now. After the accident, the NTSB determined the probable cause to be “partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing, which resulted in a descent and impact with terrain.”

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

Example of a Preventable Accident A prime example of when a go-around could’ve prevented an accident is in the case of Southwest Airlines Flight 1455. The aircraft was 44 knots higher than its target landing speed, which resulted in a runway overrun. Pitch for Climb The next immediate action is to arrest the descent.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Airspeed variations with weight in light general aviation aircraft are only a handful of knots, so it’s easy to fly the published slow speed when light, the faster speed when heavy, and something in the middle when the aircraft weight is something in the middle. No math required.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The aircraft involved in the Vilnius incident was operated by Spanish all-cargo airline Swift Air under contract to DHL. years old, having first been delivered as a passenger plane to now-defunct carrier Australian Airlines in October 1993 and was later operated by Qantas. The aircraft, registered EC-MFE, was 31.1

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Fixed-Wing Foibles Consider the Airbus first officer (FO) who tried to satisfy ATCs request to increase their descent (rate), so he engaged open descent mode. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Thats FA tenacity.

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