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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know:   Part two   

Aerotime

In the previous installment of this two-part article , AeroTime took you through the initial stages of a routine commercial flight, from the pre-departure checks carried out by the pilots and cabin crew, to what is happening outside the aircraft, and from engine startup to taxi and take-off.

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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know: Part one  

Aerotime

Before departure Once you are onboard and safely seated, there will already be a rush of activity going on in the cabin around you. These figures are vital for the crew to be able to calculate the actual take-off speed of the airplane in the prevailing weather conditions (as we’ll see later).

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62 Seconds of Deadly Severe Turbulence

Ask Captain Lim

second duration likely caused the injuries to crew and passengers. The incident was attributed to the swift transition between climb and descent and not the actual change in altitude. The rates of climb and descent were not excessive, being only half of the typical rates during normal take-off and descent. to positive 1.5G

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Continental flight 11

Fear of Landing

The cabin was run by the chief purser and four cabin crew. The gate agent remembered that the weather was terrible: thunderstorms with rain and hail. The gate agent remembered that the weather was terrible: thunderstorms with rain and hail. In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer.

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Extreme Turbulence in Singapore Airlines flight 321

Fear of Landing

The report shows that the real risk is for the cabin crew. Flightradar24 have commented that many analyses are including the descent from 37,000 to 31,000 feet as caused by the turbulence. In fact, the descent to 31,000 feet was flown by the flight crew as the start of the planned emergency descent to Bangkok.

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Discovering IndiGo Airbus A321neo Part 1: New Delhi To Mumbai

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Damp Lease is which the lessor (owner) provides the aircraft, maintainence of the aircraft and flight crew. However, cabin crew and insurance will not be provided. The airline that is leasing the aircraft will provide its own cabin crew and will be trained before being allowed to work on these leased aircraft.

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Icing, Systems, and Human Factors: Preliminary Findings on Voepass flight 2283

Fear of Landing

There were two flight crew, two cabin crew, and 58 passengers on board when the aircraft, an ATR 72-212A (ATR 72-500) departed Coronel Adalberto Mendes da Silva Airport in Cascavel. The weather was overcast for the flight route, with cloud tops reaching temperatures forecast from 0° to -35°C (32° to -31°F).

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