Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Chipmunk continued to runway 24L where the pilot was given clearance to take off. Runway 06R/24L is 1,150 metres long (3,770 feet). The aircraft started its take-off roll and lifted off about halfway down the runway. This is not to do with the engine cowling but the shoulder harness in the cockpit.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

The airpoort has 4 runways: 09/27, 10/28 , 11L/29R and 11R/29L. It's not easy to arrive early at Mumbai due to the heavy traffic and also the airport operates a single runway for both departure and landing. There were a few good bumps during take off and more of it during the descent especially flying through the clouds.

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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. The runway is right there.

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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

MAY 3, 2024

On the 9th of August 2023, a VX4 crashed at Cotswold Airport in Gloucestershire during a test flight over the runway. For the unmanned test, the pilot controlled the aircraft from a remote cockpit with a curved screen offering a panoramic view of the instruments. Then the pilot carefully climbed to 30 feet above the runway.

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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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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 little plane leapt into the air almost immediately as the wind seemingly swirled from every direction along the 5,000-foot runway.

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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. Then came the long taxi to the runway.

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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. At the far end of the runway, we again climbed skyward, trading airspeed for altitude.

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Air Traffic Control Descent Runway Thrust 98

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is Aegean's Airbus A320CEO with the racoon style cockpit. In addition, the airport has 2 runways, runway 10/28 and 16/34 and operates 2 terminals. With a minute ahead of schedule, we pushed back and made our way to the departure runway. Welcome to my 2nd flight review on Aegean Airlines!

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The instructor was able to complete the turn, but the airplane overshot the runway. The pilot flying wrote, “After completing the turn back to the field we saw the airport environment and we were located over the runway but more than halfway down runway 17. The instructor’s preparation for an engine failure is exemplary.

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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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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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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I reached into the cockpit instantly and pulled the throttle to idle. Turning final, I set up myself with what is now my runway. About 5 miles out, I contacted Lawson Tower, which cleared me for a straight-in to Runway 15. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 22, 2024

Currently the airport has 2 terminals, the main and the satallite terminal and uses 2 runways, runway 03L/21R and 03R/21R. Rolling down the runway in this beautiful weather. Not long after, we started our descent. There was a bit of light turbulence during our descent. We are on final approach on runway 34 at SKG.

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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. After lining up on the runway, I slowly and deliberately advanced the throttle marking the airspeed, oil pressure, and speeds.

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Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

M ost difficult experience has been taxiing when visibility for runways is down to 150 m or less. I’d venture to say that few aircraft out there can cruise at 350 kts, and operate safely out of the 2500-ft runway at WKR, which has had its share of landing mishaps. Thinking we could be on fire, we initiated a 7000-fpm descent.

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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. As the Frontier A321 touched down on runway 26L at LAS a witness close by reported “two loud bangs in quick succession” due to the tires exploding.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This time, both of the engines were started after pushed back so no PTU (Power Transfer Unit) - 'barking' noise was heard during our taxi to the runway. behind the pilot's cockpit) The lavatory is at a reasonable size, I was able to use it without difficulty. Soon, we were on the main taxiway heading towards the runway.

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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! Window shot photos After pushed back, we took about 15 minutes to reach the runway. At this point we started our descent and we can feel the wind shaking our plane quite a bit especially at a lower altitude.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

I was listening intently to the ASOS for wind or gusts, letting it repeat 5 or 6 times with the exact same report: 9 kts straight down the runway; no gusts. That was the runway we would use to land. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call.

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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? After starting the engine, the oil pressure will take longer to rise.

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

So that’s what we did … They conveniently gave us runway 06, and off we were, carefully noting our fuel situation as a general repetition of things to come. Near Reykjavik and in the descent, the area cleared again and we got back our views on the ground: Iceland was still gorgeous ! Westbound !! Towards Oshkosh !!!

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 29, 2024

Pushing back Kuwait Airport We started our taxi at 2:50PM, and made our way to runway 33L. Taxiing Kuwait Airport When we made it out to runway 33L, we had to wait for about five minutes, as two jets were landing. As soon as we started our descent, the seatbelt sign was turned on, and the crew prepared the cabin for arrival.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 26, 2024

Kuwait Airways A330 taxiing Cairo Airport Our taxi was long but quick, and at 11:15AM we were cleared for takeoff on runway 23C. Kuwait Airways A330 first class lavatory Kuwait Airways has a first class lavatory at the front of the cabin by the cockpit. At 11AM we began our pushback, and then at 11:05AM we began our taxi.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 27, 2024

Once we started our descent, the cabin crew appeared and at least they did their job by checking everyone is buckle up before they made their way to their seats. The cockpit view - my favourite. Our taxi to the runway didn't take long. Lots of changes have taken place during this period, that's for sure. Almost there!

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I had an easy out available to me: a descent of 1000 feet would bring me out of the clouds with plenty of altitude to spare above the terrain. As I taxied off the runway, Moe greeted me on Unicom and directed me to a parking spot. I shut down the Warrior, tidied up the cockpit, and met him at the nose of my airplane.

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Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

In reality, FAA has broken its own “sterile cockpit” rule, and unless the mature and experienced voices in the room stand up for reason and the cold, hard rules of aviating, navigating, and communicating, the system will continue its “graveyard spiral” to the inevitable consequences. It’s not a social science laboratory. Jason Meister ATP.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

One more gadget in the cockpit cannot remedy deficits in skill, judgement, and attitude. On downwind, ATC had me at 3,000 feet going over the departure end of the crossing runway. I could see that the spot on the ground in the windshield that was not moving was short of the runway. Turning final, I was still way, way high.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway. Descent check!” I turned final and lined up with the runway, aiming for a near-end touch-down point a thousand feet below. This is Saigon. I called, setting up to land. Definitely a two-fer!

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Approval for a contact approach lets you make a legal, visual descent to land without fuss and while retaining your IFR status. Include the runway you’d like to use when the destination is a towered airport. Navigate to the Airport You may begin your descent once you’re cleared, un-less ATC instructed otherwise.

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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. To fly that low would mean running into one of the ships while attempting to lower themselves onto the runway.

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