Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In my glass-cockpit airplane, on an instrument approach, there are a number of things to be set and to look out for. By comparison, in a steam-gauge cockpit, much more information is kept in your head, and many of those avionics settings arent even there. Not all checklists are related to the engine and airframe.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On board in a cockpit observer seat was a well known FAA air carrier inspector who oversaw the L-1011 operations at TWA. If the glide slope failed, the Policy Manual permitted crews to revert to the Localizer Approach minimus. The flight crew did everything by the book while observing strict cockpit discipline. Well guess what?

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One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

One is right by the cockpit, while one is in front of row one, on the right side. A few minutes later we began our descent, at which point the seatbelt sign was turned on. I always enjoy the views on approach to my home airport of Miami (its one of the few redeeming qualities of the airport !).

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Airlines Airline Approach Runway 110

Flyertalk

AUGUST 15, 2024

While the aircraft departed without incident, the trouble began when approaching the Wyoming terminal. After a cockpit crew change, the aircraft continued to Jackson Hole without further troubles. The aircraft entered a holding pattern over Jackson Hole before the pilot made the announcement to the cabin.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

AGL (or when AGL is unknown), the descent rate exceeds 4,000 ft. AGL and the descent rate exceeds 3,000 ft. AGL, the descent rate is between 3000 ft. Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold.

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Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

My phone chime woke me up from a deep sleep hours later and I headed back to the cockpit to relieve the Captain so he could get some well deserved sleep. Arriving at the flight deck door, I performed the normal cockpit entry procedure but received no response. They relayed that only pilots in full uniform could be in the cockpit.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

When flying a plane for the first time, this knowledge helps you make informed decisions in the cockpit. In-Flight Maneuvers: Basic Turns, Climbs, and Descents During your first flight, youll learn basic maneuvers like turns, climbs, and descents. These are the building blocks of piloting.

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Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

During the final stages of the flight, air traffic control told the pilot to expect the RNAV A approach to Montgomery County. The pilot asked for the RNAV GPS RWY 14 approach, which had lower minimums. His troubles began before he even started the approach. The Mooney continued its approach.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Combining the data shown on your cockpit instruments helps you make better judgments. One example is Indicated Airspeed (IAS), which is the airspeed you read directly from cockpit instruments. A positive reading means you’re climbing, while a negative one indicates descent. In a climb or descent, this is just as true.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Our approach guarantees youll be comfortable handling any maneuver when flying a small plane, even in challenging conditions. This approach helps you build confidence, master techniques, and make the transition to real-world flying seamless and enjoyable. Our goal is to help you approach every landing with confidence.

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Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 13, 2024

On the 25th of November 2024, a Boeing 737-400 crashed on final approach to Vilnius airport with one fatality. With a temperature of 1C and a dew point of -1C, the likelihood of serious structural icing on approach was low. There were four crew onboard, two of whom were likely to have been in the jumpseats for repositioning.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Before the aircraft begins to move, on the left-hand ( port ) side of the aircraft you may also notice the ground crew waving a thin red flag at the captain (who always sits, aviation convention dictates, in the left-hand seat in the cockpit of fixed-wing aircraft). Part two will soon be available on AeroTime.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

They were interrupted by São Paulo Approach asking them to try a different radio frequency, as they had reported a slight echo on the frequency. During the conversation with the controller, there was the sound of a single chime on the cockpit voice recorder. Source: CENIPA The captain resumed the approach briefing.

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AV Web

JULY 21, 2024

I don’t know how many long nights in the cockpits of various slow-piston and faster-turbine aircraft. I remembered those cozy nights as I chomped on a burnt grilled cheese sandwich with sauerkraut (Yep, we served that at night) and peered out of the cockpit windows at more stars than people on Earth can imagine.

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One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Theres an additional lavatory right by the cockpit, but that seems to be reserved for the crew, since a curtain is pulled in front of it. Korean Air 787-10 map enroute to Seoul Incheon As we began our descent, the crew distributed landing cards for Korea, and started preparing the cabin for arrival.

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iPad Pilot News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Many apps include audio-specific features that are difficult to hear from your iPad’s speakers in the noisy cockpit. For example, ForeFlight presents both visual pop-up and aural alerts for runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, TFRs, final approach runway, low altitude, traffic conflicts and more.

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iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For those new to aviation or those making the leap from paper charts, there comes a point when a decision is necessary on which app to use in the cockpit. When taxiing on the ground, you’ll be alerted when you approach and enter active runways, and include the runway distance remaining from your position.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

For the unmanned test, the pilot controlled the aircraft from a remote cockpit with a curved screen offering a panoramic view of the instruments. The second pilot put on protective gear and approached the aircraft with a “high-voltage trained hook man” to shut down the electrical systems. A vertical descent rate of 19.5

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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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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. Briefing A pre-landing briefing highlights essential points critical to the approach and landing phase. It also allows you to focus on flying during the last stages of the approach and landing.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 26, 2024

Kuwait Airways A330 first class lavatory Kuwait Airways has a first class lavatory at the front of the cabin by the cockpit. Sure enough, the descent started at 12:50PM, and then the seatbelt sign was immediately turned on. Kuwait Airways A330 approaching Kuwait Airport Then the Kuwait skyline came into view.

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Approach Descent Airlines Airline 118

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

While waiting for everyone to be settled down, one of the crew approach me and asked if I was willing to move to the emergency row, but it was a middle seat. There were a few good bumps during take off and more of it during the descent especially flying through the clouds. A quick look at the cockpit. Last photo of my seat.

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Flight Training Central

JULY 26, 2024

I was heading 290 degrees getting vectors for the ILS approach.… Approach told me to turn left to 250 degrees. The horizon came back into view, I stopped the descent, added power, and began to climb. After a minute of silence, the Controller gave me a vector to intercept and cleared me for the approach.

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Air Facts

JULY 1, 2024

After all the preliminaries, and in full command of the cockpit, we, my instructor and I, took off on a simulated flight from Teterboro, New Jersey enroute to Norfolk, Virginia (short flight) at 15,000 feet. The better part of valor was to keep my opinion to myself, but he asked me if I could show him my technique for an ILS approach.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 21, 2024

The cockpit and cabin light up! Pre-Flight One of the best parts about flying the Airbus is the cockpit. As I come back up to the cockpit from the stairs just outside the jetbridge, I can see that passengers are already boarding. Now, back in the cockpit, the Captain and I run through our briefings and checklists.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This approach gives perspective on all factors, including those that might otherwise be ignored or unrecognized. We continued our descent for a couple of seconds and then he began a turn again to the left towards the taxiway. NTSB ERA22LA393 shows an airplane slow on approach that flared high.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. I’ve been a lucky man, indeed.

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Aerotime

APRIL 2, 2025

On November 25, 2024, a Swiftair Boeing 737-400 tragically crashed during its approach to Vilnius Airport (VNO) in the early hours of the morning. At 03:09:09 local time, the captain tried to contact the Vilnius Area control center (ACC) to report a descent into Vilnius but received no reply. The aircraft was completely destroyed.

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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. The 1,000-foot en route ceiling means that approach minimums never come into question. Mountain obscuration means finding another route, nonnegotiable.

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Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

B747-8i, B737, MD11 Contributing Writer AI-powered system could be trained to assist in the cockpit and even land the plane in extreme emergencies, such as pilot incapacitation. As type rated pilots are envisioned as GPs, the ground-based cockpit will most likely look like the real deal minus oxygen masks. Y oure alone.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cirrus Approach Access all your Cirrus airframe and avionics training courses in one easy-to-use mobile platform. WeatherSpork Another weather app, but with a unique approach. Civil Twilight This is a robust guide to sun and moon data for pilots and aviation enthusiasts.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is Aegean's Airbus A320CEO with the racoon style cockpit. The aircraft was on final approach to SKG. The Captain made his announcement and informed us about some whether ahead of us especially during take-off and we can expect some during our descent. We hit some light chops during our descent.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Just prior to descent, the chemical smell was detected in the forward section of the aircraft by cabin crew staff and then by the captain and the first officer in the cockpit. The flight data recorder also lost power as part of the emergency procedure.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 29, 2024

Kuwait Airways has two first class lavatories at the front of the cabin — one is on the left, while one is in the center, near the cockpit. As soon as we started our descent, the seatbelt sign was turned on, and the crew prepared the cabin for arrival.

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Runway Airlines Airline Descent 121

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When both plans were filed, he asked me to stand-by while he verified that the flight plan was properly pushed to Cleveland Center where Rochester Approach would be able to retrieve it. When I contacted Rochester Approach, the controller came back with, "Are you looking for your clearance to College Park?"

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