Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet. While the aircraft was flying at a ground speed of 453 knots (about 840 kilometers per hour), countless hailstones battered the fuselage, engines, and cockpit windows. There were 173 passengers and 6 crew on board.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I was still in a pretty rapid descent. While still in a descent, soon to crash into the trees, I turned to look. Settling down, buckling my belt, and enjoying my climb back to 3,000 feet, I got to thinking about whether I could have slowed or stopped my descent with the trim tab. I was in a controlled descent.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These two simple features power three of the most important cockpit instruments. As the name implies, the VSI shows the rate of the aircrafts climb or descent. It shows the rate of climb or descent in feet per minute. This setup is called the pitot-static system. How Does The System Give Inputs To The VSI?

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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. The most common scenario is direct sunlight aimed at your iPad’s screen in the cockpit, causing it to quickly reach the internal temperature limit and trigger the overheat protection mode.

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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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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. The pre-landing check is the first step in ensuring the aircraft is ready for a stable descent. Additionally, configure the aircraft for a stable descent.

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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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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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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Can we simplify life by only talking about things that are actually displayed in the cockpit? For example, in a 200-feet-per-minute descent, a typical light plane will only gain a little speed. So what do we do with energy management? Even better, can we just use the underlying ideas and ignore this abstract term?

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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. A vertical descent rate of 19.5 feet per second is twice the maximum descent speed and it collapsed under the impact. A second pilot maintained visual contact with the aircraft.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The flaps on an aircraft are used for controlled descents with slower airspeed during the approach and landing. When landing without flaps, pilots must adjust their techniques to compensate for higher approach speeds, a shallow descent angle, and longer landing distances. What is the purpose of flaps? What should you do?

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

During the conversation with the controller, there was the sound of a single chime on the cockpit voice recorder. The crew acknowledged and said that they were at the ideal point of descent and waiting for clearance. The approach controller instructed the crew to continue to wait for the descent clearance.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

So when you’re in the cockpit, you’ll know exactly what to do. Initiating a Power-off Stall Now, let’s dive into the stall: Reduce Power Simulate Approach Descent Watch for Stall Warnings 1. Now that the aircraft is in landing configuration, reduce your power to idle and pitch down to simulate an approach descent.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway. Rescue crews extracted her from the plane.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

There were a few good bumps during take off and more of it during the descent especially flying through the clouds. Anyway, during the descent, there was quite a bit of bumps and that also includes a sudden downdraft that made me hold on to the seat in front of me, I dislike this feeling to be honest. A quick look at the cockpit.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

As the jet is slowed, the instructor pilot asks the entire flight crew to note the unnatural quiet in the cockpit, the sluggish control and power response, and the buffeting. If the engine does not restart, maintaining the descent and a margin above the critical angle of attack is a better bet than stalling.

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Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The controller confirmed a descent to 3,000 feet, the minimum safe altitude for BEGKA. They anchored the Mooney to heavy rigging in the tower and were finally able to make it to the cockpit. The LPV approach relies on the pilot flying a highly accurate descent path to the decision altitude. It was now past midnight.

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One Mile at a Time

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

LATAM 787 business class lavatories LATAM’s Boeing 787-9s have two business class lavatories at the front of the cabin — there’s one right in front of the cabin on the right, and one by the cockpit. Even though it was still dark outside, I enjoyed the view on the descent, including whatever was going on with the wing.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Wright State University) The original configuration of the Bell Model 68 was an open cockpit all-metal monoplane with fixed landing gear that was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines with thrust deflectors located at the aircraft’s center of gravity.

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Air Facts

JUNE 12, 2024

Up in the cockpit we could hear Joe ‘s friend start to strum his base fiddle and a then a ukulele and many voices joined in. We soon reached 17,000 feet and then started our descent while looking into Maui’s Haleakala Crater. Joe loved playing the ukulele and singing Hawaiian songs.

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WayMan

DECEMBER 12, 2024

When stepping into the cockpit, one of the most important instruments that a pilot relies on is the airspeed indicator. The Airspeed Indicator: A Pilot’s Essential Tool At the heart of IAS measurement is the airspeed indicator, a key instrument located on the cockpits instrument panel.

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer. The controller cleared the flight and said their descent clearance was being processed. The engines had torn off in the final descent, landing some distance away. The flight departed at 20:35 local time.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

We were nearing the LAX airport at 18,000 feet and starting to get busy with the descent into SAN. When he got back to the cockpit, he told me he did not think the passengers had bought his explanation. Sending him back would be a pain in the rear as we were getting very busy with ATC, but decided to do it anyway.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

You will want to get a gear bag to carry these materials along with a notebook for taking notes and writing down information in the cockpit. It gives you an extra tool to use in the cockpit should your electronic device run out of juice, get stolen, or do an uncommanded gravity check with pavement that renders it inoperable.

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Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Unfortunately, the descent was too steep and fast, resulting in the right wing striking the ground and breaking off. Despite the crash, 184 of the 296 passengers survived, including the entire cockpit crew, though they were seriously injured.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Right after takeoff, you throw a grappling hook at the end of a short rope out of the cockpit. Immediately the plane rolled and yawed right then rapidly descended in a nose-down left spiraling descent, crashing seconds later. Its cool flying. Its connected, along with a safety weak link, to the tail of the airplane.

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Fear of Landing

MARCH 1, 2024

Regardless, the aircraft entered a dangerous descent at 8,000 feet per minute. The Cessna 172S crashed into the ground, destroying the cockpit. However, the cables from the cockpit controls to the flight surfaces were still attached and all of the damage seems to have happened on impact.

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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. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. We can calculate the rate of descent required to achieve a 3° profile.

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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. Its a great backup for charts in the cockpit too. When you break it down though, the real question you should be asking is which app is best for me.

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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The production model P-67 was also intended to be fitted with a pressurized cockpit, a novel concept for WWII fighters, and with an armament of six 37mm M4 cannons installed in the wings inboard of the engines, but these were not installed on the prototype. (US By May 11, Army Air Force pilots began evaluating the XP-67.

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Ask Captain Lim

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the instant case, the crew were caught by surprise when the cockpit door also blew open. An NTSB official was annoyed as headlines accused Boeing of keeping this cockpit door opening a secret. Well, this is not unique as it is common in all Boeing or Airbus airliners. Apparently, not many aircrews are aware of this.

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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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Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

The pilots will don oxygen masks and take the plane to a lower altitude in what we call, plainly enough, an “emergency descent.” It’s hard to know, but I imagine the cockpit crew was quite busy. There was an emergency descent to perform, as well as the necessary checklists, coordination with air traffic control, etc.

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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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Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Radar returns showed that the aircraft was still slightly off of the runway centreline and based on ADS-B data shows the aircraft low on the approach: at about 875 feet above mean sea level before the sudden descent, so 225 feet above the runway elevation despite still being a few kilometres from the runway.

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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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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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