Aerotime

MARCH 26, 2025

This included filing a report of suspicion against the Spanish pilot who survived the crash and is currently receiving treatment in his home country, as well as questioning him. One pilot, a Spanish citizen, was killed in the crash. Three other people on the aircraft, nationals from Lithuania, Germany and Spain, were injured.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This milestone marked the first time that such a feat has been achieved in a fully conforming, triply-redundant production aircraft without any backup conventional controls in the cockpit. With this latest development, the aircraft can now take off and land simply through the use of the SkyOS software installed in the cockpit.

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Aerotime

MARCH 10, 2025

The R88 will become the largest aircraft Robinson has designed to date, with a capacity for eight main cabin seats, two cockpit seats, and a payload capacity of up to 1,800 lbs (816kg) with full fuel. In the cockpit, the R88 will feature a Garmin avionics suite, including large G500H TXi displays touchscreen controls.

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Aerotime

MARCH 28, 2025

Twenty-five years on from this terrible accident, we look back at what led up to the crash, what was learned from it, and why the pilots Ted Thompson and Bill Tansky are now hailed as heroes for their actions during the incident. Wikimedia Flying the aircraft were two highly experienced former military pilots. You got it?

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Simple Flying

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In recent years, the idea of single-pilot operations on large commercial airliners has become an increasingly hot topic.

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Pilot Cockpit Airline Airlines 119

Aerotime

MARCH 6, 2025

ATP Flight School, the largest provider of commercial pilot flight training services in the United States, has announced it will expand its training aircraft fleet with the addition of 61 new aircraft throughout 2025. These will also feature Garmin G1000 cockpits and will join 103 others of the type already in service with ATP.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a massive expansion of its fleet, Air India is also set to ramp up its capacity to train new pilots. The glass cockpit will help prepare them for their future careers flying large commercial jets, said Jane Wang, Director of Sales, Marketing, and Flight Ops at Diamond Aircraft Austria, in a press release.

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Aerotime

AUGUST 2, 2024

Aviation is not short of contentious issues, but none seem to fire up passions quite like that of the implementation of single pilot commercial operations. The first is Extended Minimum-Crew Operations (eMCOs), the other Single-Pilot Operations (SiPOs). On the other hand, SiPOs are end-to-end single-pilot operations.

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Simple Flying

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The allure of the cockpit has always been tied to adventure and prestige. Still, in recent years, pilot salaries at major airlines like American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines have also become a topic of great interest.

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Pilot Cockpit Airline Airlines 126

AV Web

AUGUST 8, 2024

Pilot’s associations are sounding the alarm on Airbus’ proposal to move towards single-pilot operations in the cockpit. 6 letter to Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury, Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) President Capt. In an Aug.

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Cockpit Pilot Flight Deck Airline 140

AV Web

MARCH 6, 2025

31, revealing that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was not operational at the time of the crash and likely hadn’t captured audio for several years. The NTSB report also highlighted that both pilots held a type rating for the Learjet 55. A cause of the crash has not been determined.

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One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 6, 2025

The channel has just uploaded a video involving interactions between a NetJets pilot and an air traffic controller, and Im just plain confused by how this could happen. Let me emphasize that NetJets operates flights with two pilots in the cockpit, and its a reputable company, with many career pilots.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Approach Clearance 117

Aerotime

MARCH 7, 2025

As part of its investigation into a deadly plane crash in Philidelphia, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has revealed that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) failed to record the accident flight and had likely not been logging audio for years. Ive been on the ground monitoring.

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Air Traffic Control Cockpit Jet Pilot 267

Aerotime

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Voepass (Voepass Linhas Aéreas) pilots killed in a deadly crash in São Paulo, Brazil, tried to react to a loss in altitude for one minute before the ATR 72-500 impacted, according to local media. As the aircraft lost altitude the co-pilot asked what was happening and that “more power” was needed to stabilize the plane.

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Pilot Cockpit Stability Airline 306

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

Teaching International Student Pilots Air Facts Journal In the mid 70s, I was a USAF T-38 instructor pilot (IP) in the 71 st Flying Training Wing at Vance AFB (KEND) in Enid, Oklahoma. Two squadrons trained students in their journey to become Air Force pilots. The venerable Tweet A.K.A. The 6000-pound dog-whistle!

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Aerotime

JUNE 5, 2024

Airlines are currently grappling with significant challenges in recruiting and retaining enough pilots to meet growing passenger demand. While there are recent examples of carriers, notably United Airlines, offering pilots unpaid leave, these are certainly the exception.

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Simple Flying

MARCH 7, 2025

Spiders onboard prompted a strange scenario for Iberia passengers in Madrid when an Iberia pilot reportedly encountered a tarantula in the cockpit during a routine flight from Dusseldorf to Madrid Barajas Airport. It is speculated that the spider may have boarded during a layover in Casablanca Airport , Morocco.

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Pilot Cockpit 91

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, about five minutes before landing, radio contact was lost with the pilots, although the transponder continued to work normally which transmitted the aircraft’s height and position information to the air traffic controllers at Guarulhos Airport. The aircraft was directed towards runway 28L at Guarulhos for a priority landing.

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 21, 2025

A quality headset is one of the most important tools a student pilotor any pilot, reallyhas. Good headsets enhance communication, reduce cockpit noise, and ensure comfort during long training or time-building flights. Noise Cancellation Especially in small, piston-driven trainer aircraft, cockpit noise can be overwhelming.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 27, 2025

The pilots reportedly spotted a flock of birds while approaching the runway at 08:58:56 local time. The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) failed to capture the final moments of the flight, stopping at 08:58:50 local time. The empennage flipped and fell beyond the embankment, partially burning.

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Runway Knot Cockpit Approach 300

Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2025

Many aspiring pilots feel discouraged before they even start training, believing that their height disqualifies them from taking to the skies. This misconception can shatter dreams and rob the aviation world of potential top-notch pilots. In this article, well debunk the myths surrounding pilot heights in civil and military aviation.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Deciding between a traditional round-dial cockpit and a modern glass cockpit can be a big deal for some pilots. Round-dials teach you hands-on skills, while glass cockpits use fancy technology to help you see what’s going on around you. Learning these differences will help you pick the right kind of cockpit for you.

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Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Who is the pilot in command of your aircraft? Air Facts Journal The pilot in command of an aircraft is directly responsible for, and is the final authority as to, the operation of that aircraft. ” The pilot in the left seat As that accident shows, being PIC is a full time job.

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One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If you look on social media, its clear that some people think that airlines are hiring pilots with little to no experience, simply because of the color of their skin or their gender. In the United States, we have the highest requirements of anywhere in the world to become a commercial pilot. This also caused a huge pilot hiring spree.

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Pilot Airline Airlines Flight Deck 108

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

With 28 years of experience at Ryanair, and 18 of those as the carrier’s Head of Training, Airline Pilot Club (APC) CEO Andy O’Shea knows a thing or two about what it takes to become a become an exceptional pilot – and no, it’s not as simple as knowing how to fly a plane.

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Pilot Airline Airlines Approach 269

Simple Flying

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

While cockpit doors before the 9/11 attacks were designed to provide a barrier between pilots and passengers for disturbance purposes, the terror attacks that changed the world as we know it have now been designed to provide an additional layer of protection for the crew. The short answer is yes, but the real answer is no.

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Cockpit Airplanes Pilot 111

Aerotime

JANUARY 19, 2025

It’s got the redundancies built in, it’s got that tremendous safety factor, but most importantly for us, is what we’ve been able to do inside that cockpit with the HUD, the Enhanced Vision System. Embraer Praetor 600 cockpit. Now, if you are an owner-pilot, of course, single pilot is great.

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Simple Flying

JANUARY 25, 2025

This young European manufacturer, with something to prove, had demonstrated its capabilities for building intercontinental aircraft when it introduced the Airbus A300 in the decades prior, a jet that, despite its shortcomings, introduced several innovations such as the two-pilot cockpit.

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Cockpit Jet Pilot 119

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 11, 2025

On the one hand, its a major setback, though on the other hand, its also a major clue Jeju Air 737 black box stopped recording before crash Airliners have black boxes, as theyre called (despite not being black), which contain flight data and cockpit voice recorders. If the aircraft had a full loss of power, that would explain why.

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Air Traffic Control Cockpit Runway Pilot 113

Simple Flying

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Airbus A330neo cockpit merges advanced technology with A350 commonality, enhancing pilot efficiency, safety, and operational flexibility.

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Cockpit Pilot 111

Aerotime

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As they approached their destination, the pilots realized there was a problem. The wreckage path was almost 500 feet long, and the cockpit was crushed against tree trunks. Drummer Pyle claims that he realized something was wrong before the crash and went into the cockpit. This, it is thought, saved many lives that day.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Cockpit Pilot 246

Air Facts

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Do Crash Videos Make Us Safer Pilots? Air Facts Journal I used to think crash videos made me a safer pilot, now I’m not so sure. Im also quite aware that many of these experts are high-time pilots that either have some formal background in accident investigation as investigators themselves or subject matter experts.

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Pilot Cockpit Weather Airplanes 98

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Science fiction may make it look like fully autonomous flight is just around the corner, but for now, we’re still relying on human pilots. And while pilots are incredibly skilled problem-solvers, they’re still human. Key Takeaways Recognizing hazardous attitudes helps pilots make safer decisions. They are usually right.”

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AV Web

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Having at least two semi-functioning human brains on the flight deck makes sense, but this single pilot thing may overwhelm common sense and become an industry standard before I manage to escape this crazy planet and fly west. Our arguments were full of logic and common sense, just like those of the two pilot defenders of today.

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Cockpit Pilot Flight Deck Airline 105

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 5, 2025

Air traffic control, responding to the pilots odd transmission, simplified the clearance, issuing just a heading and an altitude. Then the pilot said: Hang on. That pilot circled the approximate area but reported seeing nothing but water. The pilot and both nurses on board had died on impact. There was no answer.

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Clearance Pilot Cockpit Descent 95

Simple Flying

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The F-16 Fighter pilot's view is one of the best among other fighter jets. The cockpit also features a high pilot position with a reclined seat that is 30 angle, accommodating taller pilots.

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Cockpit Pilot Jet 111

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 21, 2025

Flying with Starlink satellite internet: tips for pilots iPad Pilot News In-flight satellite connectivity is more accessible now than ever for pilots flying piston airplanes and light jets. This is ideal for campers, boaters, and now pilots, and you can use the newer Starlink Mini antenna with this plan.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Knot 71