Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is Aegean's Airbus A320CEO with the racoon style cockpit. Looking at the skies, it was a complete opposite from my arrival, the skies were filled with clouds with some angry ones from the distance, I was expecting some turbulence on this flight. After the turbulent arrival, we taxied to our remote parking lot near the terminal.

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Airlines Airline Descent Turbulence 52

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer. The bad weather continued to plague them and the crew were concerned about the lightning, icing and turbulence associated with thunderstorms. The controller cleared the flight and said their descent clearance was being processed.

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Cabin Crew Weather Descent Turbulence 85

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

Anyway we were informed about the turbulence and for this flight, the first officer did the announcements. There were a few good bumps during take off and more of it during the descent especially flying through the clouds. A quick look at the cockpit. Quite a bit of bumps during our descent. Last photo of my seat.

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Descent Runway Cabin Crew Weather 102

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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Runway Crosswind Rudder Approach 70

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

One more gadget in the cockpit cannot remedy deficits in skill, judgement, and attitude. This descent used the same technique that (would have) had value in many of the NTSB accidents involving engine failure after takeoff. That produced a strange traffic pattern with roller coasters at the corners.)

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General Aviation Pilot Approach Runway 73

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

It started out as a routine engine failure, but escalated rapidly when we began to smell what we thought at first was smoke, but which turned out to be oil, in the cockpit. Thinking we could be on fire, we initiated a 7000-fpm descent. Little thought is given to the fact that a 7000-fpm descent will fog the windows.

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Pilot Runway NOTAMs Cockpit 40

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

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. Even a more typical descent rate of 200 fpm would have allowed Shmulik to hold for about 5-7 minutes before he would have had to proceed with the landing.

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52

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.

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Weather Tail Drag Ceiling 124

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 27, 2024

For most parts of the flight, it was smooth with just a bit of turbulence during the way out of Changi and on approach to Shanghai. 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.

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Cabin Crew Airlines Airline Runway 59