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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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 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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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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iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We’ve been flying with the Apple Watch since it first launched, and it’s become increasingly useful every year for both preflight weather checks and as an in-cockpit resource. It includes a GPS and compass for backup navigation and a bright sunlight readable screen for easy viewing in the cockpit.

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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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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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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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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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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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Flight Training Central

JULY 26, 2024

The horizon came back into view, I stopped the descent, added power, and began to climb. My head movements in the cockpit trying to figure things out were counterproductive and actually were a significant contributing factor to the magnitude of my disorientation. Now airspeed was passing through 190 mph fast! Check your altitude.”

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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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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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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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Air Facts

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The carburetor was broken from the engine consistent with impact damage; however, the cockpit controls remained attached. We were trained to check the operation of carburetor heat prior to takeoff, to apply carburetor heat during slow flight, descents, reduced power, etc. The carburetor heat knob was found in the “off” position.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is Aegean's Airbus A320CEO with the racoon style cockpit. 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. By then the aircraft started its descent when the cabin crew were released from their seats.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 investigation continues and a full report on the incident will be published in due course.

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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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CockPit Conversation

MAY 24, 2024

I reduce power for descent into a familiar or unfamiliar airport, on the way to supper on the way to bed on the way to getting up in the morning and flying some more, and I see it as I would describe it to you. I’ve found myself “thinking in blog” a lot lately.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 22, 2024

Swiss Airlines Airbus A220-300 Aegean Airbus A320CEO (Old livery) Sky Express Airbus A320NEO Gulf Air Airbus A321NEO (Retro livery) Iberia Airbus A320NEO Aegean Airbus A320CEO (Don't let the racoon style cockpit fool you!) Not long after, we started our descent. There was a bit of light turbulence during our descent.

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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. And managing fatigue in the hot cockpit flying into the sun still had to be taken into account. Mountain obscuration means finding another route, nonnegotiable.

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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. I put the gear down one dot above the glideslope and let the drag bring the aircraft down at its 550 foot-per-minute descent rate.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

You can encounter frost when your aircraft is parked in freezing temperatures or when you fly from cold air into warmer, moist air—such as during descent or when climbing through a temperature inversion (where the temperature rises with altitude). But how dangerous is it?

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I reached into the cockpit instantly and pulled the throttle to idle. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. I took a quick look at the prop and flipped the mag switch. Carefully grabbing the back of the prop with both hands, I gave a hearty swing. The engine sprang to life.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I managed to take a little peek of the cockpit when it was opened. At this point, we started our descent into Hat Yai. The foldable tray table Each passengers get a reading light and an air vent. Information of the amenities on board this aircraft is shown on every back of each seat. At this point, we were ready for departure.

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Northstar VFR

APRIL 11, 2024

For example, the instrument rating certifies pilots on navigation using only the instruments inside the cockpit, so they are able to fly with little to no visibility outside. Additionally, pilots get ratings that will act on top of their certificate for added privileges.

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