Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s (AOPA) Air Safety Institute has published an excellent report titled, “ Stall and Spin Accidents: Keep the Wings Flying.” It is an easy download and a must-read for all pilots. The late fighter/test pilot Bob Hoover said it best: “Fly the airplane as far into the crash as possible.”

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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. The tower frequency had been near silent, with only the occasional pilot checking in, curtly told, “Airport is closed, emergency in progress.” They were inverted in a Florida marsh, and the brackish water was rising. Long pause.

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Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

After reviewing our landing currency, the Captain determined that I would be the pilot flying our MD-11 home that night and First Officer, Sean, would be assigned the role of relief pilot. Arriving at the flight deck door, I performed the normal cockpit entry procedure but received no response. Why not Anchorage?”

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Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

Learning to fly and obtaining a pilot certificate is not like learning to drive a forklift. There may be an opportunity for special issuance, or you may seek a pilot certificate that doesn’t require a medical certificate, like flying gliders. You will need an aviation headset and pilot logbook.

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Fear of Landing

MARCH 1, 2024

A reader contacted me about a fatal crash which killed a pilot and his instructor in November 2021. There were two on board, a private pilot and a flight instructor, both of whom were killed in the crash. Regardless, the aircraft entered a dangerous descent at 8,000 feet per minute. The flight was instructional.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

The five-seater aircraft (pilot and four passengers) is pitched as an urban air taxi, with plenty of room for luggage. The prototype is designed as a piloted aircraft but the initial test flight in July 2023 was unmanned. A second pilot maintained visual contact with the aircraft. G-EVTL lifted off with all EPUs operating.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Pilots and flight schools favor this aircraft for its ease of use and dependable performance. 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.

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AV Web

JULY 21, 2024

A pilot’s business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. I don’t know how many long nights in the cockpits of various slow-piston and faster-turbine aircraft. Some pilots bid for all-nighters exclusively. He strives to outwit the forces of nature.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The many analyses and videos on these topics have been done in what can best be described as laboratory conditions—carefully selected ideal conditions of pilot, airplane, and environment. None of these achieved enough altitude to have permitted a successful impossible turn, but there were pilots who tried, anyway.

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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. It was then I saw the perfection in having First Officer, Don Hackman, as my co-pilot. We soon reached 17,000 feet and then started our descent while looking into Maui’s Haleakala Crater.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

From daring rescues of downed pilots as enemy forces closed in to handling a crazed water buffalo aboard a C-123K transport, seasoned veterans share their unforgettable and extraordinary experiences. We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

About 90% of accidents could have been prevented by the pilot. Most can be avoided by diligent pre-flight preparations; by paying attention to what’s happening around us; by staying disciplined and flying within one’s margins; and by avoiding basic piloting mistakes through regular practice.

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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. The other day, flying in a Debonaire in the right seat, I asked the pilot to perform a 45-degree 360-degree left and right turns.

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Professional Pilot

JUNE 10, 2024

Here’s a compendium of single-pilot-certified turbine-powered airplanes. By Shannon Forrest Contributing writer Kodiak 100 A t some point, every pilot is alone in an aircraft as the sole manipulator of the flight controls. Some airmen will spend their entire careers operating as a one-man crew. For some, it happens during training.

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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. I'll keep trying.

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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. The post Where There’s Smoke… appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine. I took a quick look at the prop and flipped the mag switch. The engine sprang to life.

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Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

CRJ900 Chief Pilot Dow Chemical Port Allen LA I don’t think staffing levels are adequate. Falcon 2000, Beech 400 & Citation 650 Pilot Delaware Park Silver Spring MD T hey are not. Gulfstream G650 Corporate Pilot Executive Jet Management Lake Worth FL F acilities are not adequately staffed, in my opinion. James Lanning ATP.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II. By World War I, de Havilland was working for Airco, where he designed a number of early warplanes, which enjoyed varying success, and flew as his own test pilot. In normal flight, it was forgiving of mistakes.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

behind the pilot's cockpit) The lavatory is at a reasonable size, I was able to use it without difficulty. After sometime of cruising, we started our descent into Delhi. It was hazy during our descent but nothing bumpy. Photos of the rear cabin including the lavatory The cabin crew's workspace. It has been fun!

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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. Efforts like this freed male pilots for combat missions, and her dedication led to her appointment as commander of Reading Station.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. This hardly seems equitable, but is a reality that pilots have borne for many years. ounce toiletries.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The pilot, who had received his private pilot licence in the UK in 1977, operated the aircraft and held the registration from 2018. On Friday the 26th of April 2024, the pilot took the Chipmunk out for a pleasure flight from Jandakot Airport in Western Australia. The aircraft was exported to Australia as VH-POR in 2010.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The many analyses and videos on these topics have been done in what can best be described as laboratory conditions, carefully selected optimum conditions of pilot, airplane, and environment. Was this a power loss after takeoff, whether or not the pilot chose to fly an impossible turn? Would a visual AOA indicator have helped?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

Do you like the racoon style cockpit? The racoon style cockpit Time to experience my first Aegean Airlines flight! At this point we started our descent and we can feel the wind shaking our plane quite a bit especially at a lower altitude. The view is excellent but it was quite bumpy during our descent. Let's go to Greece!

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

And so we landed without any issue and taxied via Charlie to the Apron, arriving at the first location of the Blue Spruce Routes because we saw all the old WW2 hangars in various state of repair or disrepair … Wick is a classic stop-over for ferry pilots in both directions. after DEVBI with Iceland Radio.

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Northstar VFR

APRIL 11, 2024

By Ally Melick, CRJ Pilot, CFI, CFII, MEI Over and over you hear on the news about a pilot shortage and how over the next few years thousands of pilots will be hired by the airlines. You’ve always dreamt about becoming a pilot and it seems like now is a great time for a career change.

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Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In this worst-case scenario, the pilots lost all traditional control of the aircraft. Remarkably, through good teamwork with another travelling company instructor pilot, the crew managed to line up the plane on a closed runway. Pilots must remain calm, assess the situation, and make decisions based on available resources.

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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. Also the pilots would’ve been wearing oxygen masks, which makes communications more difficult.

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Ask Captain Lim

JULY 24, 2023

A Germanwings Airbus A320 Photo Credit: SEBASTIEN MORTIER ( [link] ) Do pilots have to undergo any sort of mental check before flying? Yes, long before proceeding to fly any commercial planes, pilots indeed undergo mental health checks. A study of 809 Brazilian pilots generally revealed that between 6.7%

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Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Cheyenne IV/II Reposition Pilot & A&P Pilot Tong Aircraft Service Fort Lauderdale FL D ealing with millennial pilots who think they know it all is the most challenging situation I can experience. Having pilots take pictures of the PFD and MFD will usually highlight other systems that might be part of the issue.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Maybe it’s the Georgia flying weather, or maybe it’s the ever-increasing emphasis on “old” pilot instead of “bold” pilot, but it seems that flight planning these days is a lot more about if and when than about route and altitude. And managing fatigue in the hot cockpit flying into the sun still had to be taken into account.

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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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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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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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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

When he attempted to contact the tower again, he discovered that the antenna on his primary radio was gone, having iced over during his descent through the overcast and snapped off. Soon after emerging from the cockpit, Lt. Also joining them was the plane’s last pilot, Arthur Kidder, who had retired and moved back to Colorado.

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