Cockpit, Descent and Tail - Aviator Connection

How fortunate were the passengers and crew of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 that the door blew out at a lower altitude rather than during cruising!

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. The most dangerous scenario would have been the blown off door colliding with the tail structure.

Cockpit

Cockpit Airlines Airline Descent

COMBAT VIETNAM: The Threat Inside My Aircraft

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!” That meant balancing aerodynamic forces on the flight controls with a large “trim wheel” linked by cables to tabs on the aft edge of our horizontal tail. I was dragging tail.

Weight-Shift-Control

Weight-Shift-Control Tail Cargo Airplanes

Cessna Skyhawk C172: Features, Performance, and Flight Experience

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.

Knot

Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight

Our Overton Window

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. He was in his forties when we flew together in his V-tail Bonanza. I hastily agreed. The Power Jockey. I did not touch the flaps.

Knot

Knot Approach Pilot Runway

What can you do when the hydraulic system in your plane fails?

Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10, crash-landed at Sioux City Airport after a catastrophic failure of its tail engine had caused a loss of all hydraulic control. Unfortunately, the descent was too steep and fast, resulting in the right wing striking the ground and breaking off.

Runway

Runway Descent Thrust Tail

Recreating the de Havilland Tiger Moth

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

I’ve seen a single person lift a Tiger Moth by the tail to take it out of its hangar. One of the major changes introduced to the Tiger Moth, at RAF insistence, was folding door panels that made it easier to enter and exit both cockpits. However, the trickiest part of takeoff for most tailwheel airplanes is still when the tail comes up.

Airplanes

Airplanes Cockpit Pilot Lift

Better Things to Talk About.

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

There they were, leisurely mulling the finer points of their merger with Hawaiian, wondering which visage to paint on the tail, when the 737 MAX-9 stole the show. The pilots will don oxygen masks and take the plane to a lower altitude in what we call, plainly enough, an “emergency descent.” Rarely are decompressions deadly.

Descent

Descent Tail Air Traffic Control Pilot

Continental flight 11

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.

Cabin Crew

Cabin Crew Weather Descent Turbulence

Invisible Trap Kills Glider Pilot – How To Avoid Microbursts

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

The Rifle ASOS recorded a gust of 43 mph from the south: a 100-degree shift in direction, putting it right on his tail. Under normal circumstances Shmulik would have had sufficient altitude to delay the landing by several minutes: his glider’s minimum descent rate in still air was just 100 fpm.

Pilot

Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway

Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 1, Of PINs and Prop Locks

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. I shut down the Warrior, tidied up the cockpit, and met him at the nose of my airplane. I gave my tail number and destination. "Oh, A good pilot always leaves himself an out.

Transponder

Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation

Flying Back To Athens On Board Aegean Airlines A320CEO!

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is Aegean's Airbus A320CEO with the racoon style cockpit. The tail livery is certainly very attractive. 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. We hit some light chops during our descent.

Airlines

Airlines Airline Descent Turbulence

From the Aleutians to Utah: The Journey of a Lightning and a Liberator Preserved at The Hill Aerospace Museum

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. However, when Kidder broke through the clouds at 1,500 feet, all he could see was freezing water below him.

Weather

Weather Tail Drag Ceiling

Review: Kuwait Airways First Class Airbus A330 (CAI-KWI)

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 26, 2024

Kuwait Airways map feature A330 Kuwait Airways map feature A330 While there’s also a nose camera, that’s not nearly as exciting as a tail camera, especially when it’s not high definition. Kuwait Airways A330 first class lavatory Kuwait Airways has a first class lavatory at the front of the cabin by the cockpit.

Approach

Approach Descent Airline Airlines

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