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Embraer releases multiple updates at FIA, includes plans for auto-takeoff system

Aerotime

The system will reduce the takeoff distance and increase the takeoff weight, allowing aircraft to fly further, particularly from airports with short runways such as London-City Airport (LCY). The E-Freighter marks Embraer´s first step into the cargo market. Improvements to the E2 family aircraft include the E195-E2 becoming 12.5%

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Feeling the Heat

Ask the Pilot

On the most basic level, hot weather affects air travel the way it affects most things: it makes people uncomfortable and wears them down. Aerodynamically, warmer air is less dense than cooler air, meaning that in hot weather a wing produces less lift. How much so will vary with the temperature and runway length.

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AV Web

I’d yet to land on that fabled grass runway, the Augusta National of general aviation, and this would be the year. As I passed Atlanta, the skies went from sunny to cloudy, which was as advertised, but as I neared the South Carolina state line, the weather wasn’t lifting. Except it wasn’t meant to be. Three hours came and went.

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Unveiling the Runway: Navigating the Logistics of UK Private Jet Travel

Flightworx

A well-prepared flight plan takes into account not just the direct path from point A to point B, but also factors in potential weather changes, air traffic, and emergency landing locations. Flightworx draws on years of experience to clear the runway for your smooth journey, no matter the destination. Don’t leave access to chance.

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Night Flight from Catalina: Beechcraft Baron Incident

Fear of Landing

A pilot who goes by Coyote Stan commented : “Everyone should get an opportunity to land and take off from this runway. ” The runway (04/22) is a tabletop runway with no overrun protection. Runway 22, the standard runway in use, heads southwest, with the California coastline. But I had it.

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Discovering Indigo Airbus A321neo Part 2: Hyderabad to Chennai

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

There are 2 terminals, one for cargo and the other for passengers. Soon, we entered the runway and off we go. We turned into the active runway. Once we were cleared of the gloomy weather, it was smooth for the rest of the flight. The weather was certainly better than the western part of the country at that time.

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White-Knuckle Affair

Plane and Pilot

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. entered WWII, Nolde joined the CAP, ferrying cargo and personnel around the country.

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