Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

As a pilot, you’re in charge of the navigation inside the cockpit, as well as the flight attendants and cabin crew members. The flight crew depends on you to guide the aircraft to its destination safely, which instills trust in your passengers. However, things can change at any time and throw a wrench in your plans.

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Ask Captain Lim

MAY 21, 2024

If shear rate values increase along the route, it’s time to warn the cabin crew of approaching turbulence during the preflight briefing. Most flight planning systems consider wind speed 1,000 feet below and 1,000 feet above the cruising level.

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Turbulence Wind Shear Cabin Crew Flight Plan 59

Cranky Flier

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

From Cleveland, the carrier announced another 10 new destinations — beginning in May — on a list that includes big cities, desirable warm-weather locales, enticing tourist destinations, and Myrtle Beach. Delta also announced new flying to Florida and Hawai’i.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It took a while before the seatbelt sign was turned off and the crew started preparing for in-flight service. Some nice Indian music was being played before take off and landing, I thought that was nice, it somehow helps to calm one nerves especially when flying through turbulent weather. The pillow added extra comfort for me.

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Weather Runway Cabin Crew Airlines 59

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 7, 2024

Initially a woman sitting at the aisle seat was willing to change her seat with the wife (sitting a row behind me - middle seat) then after that the cabin crew came to assist and informed them that there was a vacant seat at the first row (no idea which seat it was). One thing I won't miss is the dreadful weather. Here we are!

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Cabin Crew Weather Airlines Airline 59

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 17, 2024

Do remember to your place your reservation before the deadline of 24 hours before the flight of departure as it would give the kitchen crew some time to prepare your food before being delivered to the aircraft. The cabin crew on board will prepare your food before serving it to you. For my flight, these meals were the options.

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Airlines Airline Cabin Crew Weather 59

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The weather was not good that day. Greeted by the not-so-friendly crew, I made my way to the seat with about 90% of the seats taken. I checked the weather radar and fortunately for us, the weather was good until evening time. The crew came around to serve us snack and for the rest of the ride, it was a comfortable ride.

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Weather Tarmac Cabin Crew Runway 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 10, 2024

My cabin luggage was able to fit in but it is better to have the handle of the baggage facing you to optimise space. My in-flight experience We boarded with the cabin crew welcoming us. Besides the main meal, we were given a bun and a brownie which later the cabin crew came round to offer beverages.

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Cabin Crew Airlines Airline Runway 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The weather was cooling and it was a great day for walk. Once that was cleared, the cabin crew were released for duty. Like my previous flights, a set of crew would come around with a camera offering complimentary polaroid photos for the passengers and not surprisingly, they went past me. The weather looks great right?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

My in-flight Experience After boarding the aircraft, the purser standing near the door gave me a half hearted smile and one of the cabin crew (let's call her A) was loud, instructing the passengers like how a school teacher deals with his/her students. Unfortunately weather at Athens was not good, it was quite windy at that time.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 28, 2024

This is the area of Rossio Santa Maria Maior The view is absolutely stunning especially in good weather. On the day of departure Even though we had plenty of time before our flight departure, we decided to head to the airport early as dragging our cabin baggage across the footpath was not ideal. Goodbye Lisbon, until next time!

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AV Web

JUNE 2, 2024

I do know that these sorts of accidents happen every year, usually during the cross-over time between winter and spring, and the injuries usually happen to people not wearing their seat belts or, unfortunately, to cabin crew trying to do their jobs. I do not need to prove myself or push weather. This is for two reasons.

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Turbulence General Aviation Cabin Crew Ceiling 87

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

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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Simple Flying

MAY 17, 2024

If you only take a few flights per year, you might have experienced turbulence once or twice, while frequent fliers might have experienced it a lot more times. Depending on how severe it is, it can be a very unpleasant part of the journey. While turbulence rarely causes significant harm to passengers, many still fear it.

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Turbulence Cabin Crew Weather 105

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

Once on board, I noticed a cabin crew was serving champagne on a plastic cup and was pleasantly surprised I was given one, I suppose because of the occasion (New Year's Day). Once we were on our way, we flew through a bit of turbulence but once the weather was better, the seat belt sign was turned off. That's a good idea!

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Airlines Airline Weather Runway 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Look at the cabin ambiance, I am a definitely a fan of these colours. A starlux cabin crew was preparing the flight for departure. The captain came to do the announcement and reported fine weather for most parts of the journey except around Singapore where it would be slightly bumpy during the descent.

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Airlines Airline Runway Cabin Crew 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The cabin crew on this flight was certainly better than the previous flight, the ones I met in the lower deck were friendly and helpful. It was good weather at Singapore as our approach and landing was smooth. There was turbulence from time to time but nothing bad to mention. There were 2 meals offered on this flight.

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Runway Cabin Crew Airlines Airline 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

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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Descent Runway Cabin Crew Weather 102

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The cabin crew were waiting for us. However, he mentioned that there was turbulence along the way, not a surprise especially June to October period is usually the typhoon season and bad weather is quite common. I wonder whether was it because of the bad weather on route that caused us to push back late.

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Airlines Airline Turbulence Weather 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 15, 2024

Introduction I wasn't looking forward to going home as I thoroughly enjoyed myself in London especially the cooler weather and more exciting places to visit compared to my country. The cabin crew were great as they came around many times during the flight to serve water and of course the 2 meals we received.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 10, 2023

What else I noted about this flight is the cabin crew made a birthday announcement wishing a 17 years old passenger, a happy birthday (I wonder whether she received anything from the crew - SQ does offer birthday cakes but you need to request in advance) and our first officer on this flight was a female.

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Airlines Airline Runway Tarmac 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 4, 2024

The reason is that the nice cabin crew offered to move my seat mate which she accepted to the front so that she could get off as soon as she can to catch her connecting flight. During the flight, I used flightradar24 to check on the weather and our flight progress. Good weather sometimes give you beautiful view like this.

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Airlines Airline Runway Weather 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

The map of Thessaloniki Airport (SKG) (Photo: Wikimedia) On the day of departure After spending about 40 minutes on the public bus, I reached the airport in this gloomy weather. By then the aircraft started its descent when the cabin crew were released from their seats. Unfortunately the weather wasn't good that day.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Looking around the cabin, I noticed this set of cabin crew looked stress and I can understand as they were kept quite busy on this almost full flight. The weather on this day was better than I expect. The weather on this day was better than I expect. However, the ride was smooth from take off to landing at Penang.

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Airlines Airline Narrow-Body Aircraft Weather 52

Ask the Pilot

JUNE 28, 2024

But, you’re thinking, wouldn’t the “welcome aboard” spiel by either the pilots or cabin crew have given things away? In addition to whatever human errors catalyze such events, weather and air traffic control (ATC), to name two, can lend a hand in getting from point A to, as it were, point C. The former were Edinburgh-bound.

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Air Traffic Control Approach Runway Instrument Landing System 62

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 8, 2024

What excites me about this trip with GOL is that I finally caught my first 737 MAX ride and also enjoyed the splendid view from Rio De Janeiro to Sao Paulo although the weather was not the best. Best Cabin Crew Uniform (Singapore Airlines) The Kebaya looks absolutely stunning on the female cabin crew.

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Airlines Airline Cabin Crew Runway 52

Airspeed Junkie

APRIL 12, 2022

The challenge is that additional time is added to your day because you have to commute into and out of your airlines crew base. Atlanta also happens to be in a very congested airspace system which makes it susceptible to weather and long delays. Other cities in the Delta Airlines system are congested as well which is part of the job.

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Airspeed Junkie

MARCH 20, 2022

The challenge is that additional time is added to your day because you have to commute into and out of your airlines crew base. Newark also happens to be in a very congested airspace system which makes it susceptible to weather and long delays. Other cities in the United Airlines system are congested as well which is part of the job.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The weather at Changi was great! The weather that day in Singapore was great and we took off smoothly into the friendly skies. The captain made a couple of announcements including the welcome and thank you speeches and he also mentioned about some weather along the way. This is where my flight departed from. Time to board!

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Pilot Job Central

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Airline operations stress teamwork between flight crew, cabin crew, and available external resources. Crew resource management is an area of emphasis in training and checking in airline operations. Flight schools associated with cadet programs integrate crew resource management into every facet of their training.

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Airspeed Junkie

MARCH 23, 2022

Most of the ones I have seen are in the Caribbean markets and the vendors go on and on about how your bag is going to be protected from the weather because of what they are doing. As far as protecting your bag, the real odds of it getting wet are fairly small since bags are only exposed to the weather for a very short time.

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Weather Airlines Airline Cabin Crew 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Therefore it is common for flight delays in departure and arrival especially if the weather is bad. Since these aircraft were already installed with Aeroflot's cabin interior and configuration, the Indian airline decided to make some minor changes and that also means the airline didn't have to wait long to take delivery of the 6 aircraft.

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Cabin Crew Runway Weather Airlines 59

Airspeed Junkie

APRIL 12, 2024

It can be things you notice, habits of ATC, a routine that dispatch does, runways that get closed, weather habits at certain airports and so on. Talking to inflight or cabin crews in a way that is pleasant and encouraging. Data makes the world go round. The company desperately needs data, all kinds of it, good and bad.

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