Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

Back in the early days of jet airliners, pilots long experienced in more forgiving two- and four-engine, piston-powered prop planes found themselves running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas on the final approach to landing. Some pilots soar like eagles to a smooth touchdown, and others settle to the runway like wounded turkeys.

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Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2024

Western Airlines flying over Frankfurt International. Col Halvorsen passed in 2022, so this year his daughter flew in Western Airlines to celebrate the event. Behind Western Airlines, the new Garrison Wiesbaden control tower is dedicated to Col. Gail Halvorsen pictured with his parachute-candy in a publicity photo circa 1949.

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Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the turn there is no problem, but when rolling out on the runway centerline, the view is reduced even more. To get a little better view approaching the threshold I leaned to my left and stretched up to maybe see a little more of the runway. The view from the rear seat is mostly out the side window. And I won the bet!

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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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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are at the runway’s landing end. The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area. Commercial airliners, like smaller regional jets. Let’s review them.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 20, 2024

Currently the airport has 2 terminals with a 3rd starting operation in the near future, it has an impressive 5 runways (runway 17L/35R, 17R/35L, 16L/34R, 16R/34L and 15/33). One of the airline's check-in area. I made my way to the airline's check-in kiosk. Airline lounges are located at the floor above.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

Taipei to Hong route has a lot of flights and the airline deploys both 787 series but there are 2 issues, the flight time is too short and also aircraft change happens very frequently so with this route ended up being ruled out, my next option was a flight from Tokyo to Taipei. I suppose the airline rotate these aircraft every few months.

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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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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Introduction I always rated this airline very highly especially after reading trip reports on them and when they announced the merger between this airline and Air India, I had to book and fly with this airline before they disappear from our skies. Your airline may be disappearing but you will always be part of our memories.

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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 speeds are based on aircraft weight and performance (affected by runway and weather). Procedures may differ on other aircraft and at other airlines. Pilots set the bugs before takeoff and prior to landing.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. Touchdown At 16:00 the airplane touched down on the runway threshold to the left of the centerline.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 3, 2025

Many of us will have heard the jokes about how some airlines will offer to fly you to a particular city, only to discover once you arrive there that you have landed tens of miles away from your desired destination and that you then face an hour (or sometimes more) traveling by surface transport to reach the city that you wanted to visit.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Given that a single runway can only accommodate around 40 movements per hour, the designers knew they would have to build an airport with at least four runways for the anticipated growth in air traffic. The airport’s original plans called for five similar terminal buildings, all built in the central area between the runways.

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Cranky Flier

AUGUST 19, 2024

But this isn’t to say that the airline didn’t try, try, and try again to make the West Coast work over the years. At this point, all the flights to the West Coast were there to create options for New Yorkers as the airline grew into the slotholdings it had been gifted there. It just had to reach a certain threshold.

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

An airline pilot was incapacitated immediately upon takeoff of an airliner from the airport. As the graphs obtained directly from the watches suggest, prior to any flight, there is a rise in the heart rate above the underlying “resting” threshold. And yet it was! followed swiftly. The news was rather sad.

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Aerotime

MARCH 17, 2025

The airport has remained shut since, although several airlines have already stated that they would be willing to reintroduce services to the airport as and when it reopens to commercial operations. “So far in 2025, airline representatives have reached out to us, conducted their audits, and are analyzing the situation.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 26, 2024

But too much airspeed can lead to bounced landings if the pilot tries to force the airplane on the runway or a runway excursion if the airplane runs out of room before it runs out of speed. The left wing dropped and the airplane descended off the side of the runway, impacted terrain, and cartwheeled before coming to rest.”

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Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

Fate is STILL the hunter Air Facts Journal In 1961, veteran airline captain, Ernest K. This truism was learned one fateful day when I was employed by Skyway Airlines as a 25-year-old Beech 18 captain. Skyway’s Beech 18’s were configured for commuter airline operations with seats in the cabin for nine passengers and a crew of two.

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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 definition has been in place since 2005. This list is not exhaustive, however.

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NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

Abeam – Describes the positioning of an aircraft directly across from or over a navigation aid or runway. Alliance – An arrangement between a group of airlines agreeing to cooperate on a substantial level. A continuous broadcast of weather, active runways, and other important information like NOTAMs (see below).

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Student pilots get a free pass, because theyre adorable skittering off runways in Loss of Directional Control (LODC) events that vex the best among us. Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. Thats FA tenacity. No mention of IPC results.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 28, 2024

The day I had to make a short field landing in a B757 Air Facts Journal During the winter of 2012, I was the captain on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco (SFO) to Denver (DEN) flying a Boeing 757. There had been a significant freezing rain event prior to our arrival that left all six runways with a coating of clear ice.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction What a way to celebrate my first ever Indian domestic flight experience by flying on the airline's brand new Airbus A350-900. Let's say I didn't have the best first impression of this airline and I believe some of you have read about the negative reviews of the airline in almost all aspects of air travel with this airline.

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