Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

These figures are vital for the crew to be able to calculate the actual take-off speed of the airplane in the prevailing weather conditions (as we’ll see later). This data can then also be loaded into the aircraft’s flight management system for aircraft performance calculations. Part two will soon be available on AeroTime.

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

The gate agent remembered that the weather was terrible: thunderstorms with rain and hail. 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.

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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

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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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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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is Aegean's Airbus A320CEO with the racoon style cockpit. The map of Thessaloniki Airport (SKG) (Photo: Wikimedia) On the day of departure After spending about 40 minutes on the public bus, I reached the airport in this gloomy weather. By then the aircraft started its descent when the cabin crew were released from their seats.

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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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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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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Keep reading, and you’ll start to recognize the subtle tricks your body can play on you when you’re in the cockpit. Your instincts might say one thing, but in the cockpit, it’s vital to trust your instruments over your gut. Narrow runway: Feels higher than you are, leading to a steep descent and faster landing.

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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. Just took off in this dreadful weather. The weather didn't look too bad. At this point, we started our descent into Hat Yai. I was pleased to have the seat besides mine remained vacant. At this point, we were ready for departure.

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

My son Toby was complaining about a whistling sound from our right cockpit door, and when established in the cruise, the first miles into the Atlantic Ocean, he saw that there was a gap between the door and the airplane fuselage, creating that sound and letting cold air in. So perfect weather. after DEVBI with Iceland Radio.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. As the sun began its descent, we began the final leg of what would end up being a four-hour trek.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Some nice Indian music was being played before take off and landing, I thought that was nice, it somehow helps to calm one nerves especially when flying through turbulent weather. behind the pilot's cockpit) The lavatory is at a reasonable size, I was able to use it without difficulty. It was hazy during our descent but nothing bumpy.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Weather conditions that lead to mixed ice include areas where warm air layers are above freezing and cold air layers are below freezing. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. This creates a combination of rime ice (rough and brittle) and clear ice (smooth and hard).

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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! Once we were on our way, we flew through a bit of turbulence but once the weather was better, the seat belt sign was turned off. The weather wasn't good but at least it wasn't bumpy. Let's go to Greece!

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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!) Rolling down the runway in this beautiful weather. Not long after, we started our descent.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I checked the weather by phone and was assured it would be great CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) with 2-3-knot winds from 090 degrees. 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 engine sprang to life.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We continued our descent for a couple of seconds and then he began a turn again to the left towards the taxiway. The instructor wrote, “As far as my proficiency with the existing weather conditions, I was comfortable, current, and proficient. The scenario was that the pilot was returning due to weather.

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Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

The dispatch office reviewed the weather and winds, alternate airport forecasts, and our route of flight over the Pacific ocean for our flight back to Los Angeles. My phone chime woke me up from a deep sleep hours later and I headed back to the cockpit to relieve the Captain so he could get some well deserved sleep.

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Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“Twenty years ago, Garmin redefined the general aviation cockpit with the G1000, our first integrated flight deck. Ten years later, we introduced the G3000, bringing the first touch screens to the light turbine cockpit, and revolutionary technologies like the award-winning Garmin Autoland.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

He frequently hosted visiting pilots, providing them with detailed briefings of the area and the weather. The CAPE index, a measure of convective energy and instability, was below 100 joules, indicating a very low probability of severe weather or thunderstorms. Rifle, the location of the accident, was Shmulik’s home airport.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It was not an inspiring morning to fly out of Sodus, but I knew that the poor weather was localized to the Lake Ontario shore and that Washington DC was forecast to be sunny and significantly warmer. 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.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, contact approaches can be the perfect tool with the right weather and airport configuration. Approval for a contact approach lets you make a legal, visual descent to land without fuss and while retaining your IFR status. Navigate to the Airport You may begin your descent once you’re cleared, un-less ATC instructed otherwise.

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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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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. Curtis Fink ATP.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

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. READ MORE: Reenacting Bombing Missions in an F-117 Nighthawk In addition to the cockpit gauge, there’s also a mechanical airspeed indicator on the left wing.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The flight then began its descent into Vilnius and passed to the north of the city on a right-hand downwind approach for its landing on runway 19 at Vilnius Airport. Poor weather conditions do not appear to be a factor. The flight proceeded in an easterly direction and passed into Lithuanian airspace at 05:11 local time.

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

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