Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2024

photo via Wikipedia) A C-54 dropping candy from the cockpit on tiny parachutes as the aircraft lands in West Berlin during the Berlin Airlift circa 1949. Gail Halvorsen pictured with his parachute-candy in a publicity photo circa 1949.

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Flight Training Central

JULY 12, 2024

An ILS consists of two separate facilities that operate independently but come together in the cockpit to enable both lateral and vertical precision guidance. The localizer transmits VHF signals to provide lateral guidance, while the glideslope facility transmits UHF signals to provide vertifcal guidance.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

So, you should practice maintaining the correct sight picture by aligning the runway threshold with a fixed reference point on the windscreen. Before long, youll find no-flaps landings are just another day at the officeor in this case, the cockpit! This can make the aircraft feel like its climbing rather than descending.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. RUNWAY ALERTS Runways – Alerts when nearing or entering a runway. TRAFFIC ALERTS Airborne Traffic – Alerts when ForeFlight determinesa traffic target will be within 1.3

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

At Leopard Aviation , we train pilots to balance comfort with responsibility, ensuring they make informed decisions in the cockpit. These policies are designed to minimize distractions and maintain a professional environment in the cockpit. Regulations do not explicitly prohibit it, but safety remains the priority.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

We explore how managing high blood pressure is crucial for meeting certification standards and ensuring performance in the cockpit. Our experienced team is here to ensure you remain healthy and confident on your journey to the cockpit. Our discussion covers effective lifestyle choices, medication adherence, and regular health checks.

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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 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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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. Approach Speed When crossing the threshold, you must ensure you fly the correct approach speed.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

ATP training covers complex flight operations, advanced systems management, and leadership in the cockpit. A strong, fit body supports mental focus and endurance in the cockpit. One on one mentorship helps you overcome challenges and builds the confidence needed to succeed in the cockpit.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

In this article, we’ll dive into how and why aviators breathe oxygen, oxygen generator equipment types, and best practices for staying safe and alert in the cockpit. What Are the FAA Supplemental Oxygen Requirements for Private Pilots? You can find clear FAA oxygen requirements in 14 CFR 91.211.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area. An audible tone or a visual light in the cockpit helps identify the position. Glideslope The glideslope (GS) provides us with vertical guidance.

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AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. Landing Bugs Bug 1 and 2: V Ref – Landing Reference/Threshold Crossing speed (bugs are positioned together). Boeing stopped installing the stand-alone indicator in favor of modern, reliable flat panel displays.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this frame, we see the Northrup 4A Alpha (far right), a 1930 design that took great pains to keep the passenger complement of six comfortably inside the fuselage while the pilot still sat outside in an old school open cockpit. Cockpit of a DC-7. And of course, there is the aforementioned DC-3.

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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! Finally we reached the threshold and we were on our way. This Aegean's Airbus A321NEO was bound for Thessaloniki. Checking my aircraft's status, it had about half an hour to go before arrival. Let's go to Greece!

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

behind the pilot's cockpit) The lavatory is at a reasonable size, I was able to use it without difficulty. Here we are, we have reached the threshold. Photos of the rear cabin including the lavatory The cabin crew's workspace. There are 2 lavatories located at the rear of the aircraft and 1 lavatory located at the front of the cabin.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

He used the first officer’s airspeed indicator and visual cues out of the cockpit windows to determine the flight path of the plane and the need for any power changes. Touchdown At 16:00 the airplane touched down on the runway threshold to the left of the centerline. I had the world ahead of me.

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

No matter the number of hours in the cockpit, nor the experience, seem to stymie the primitive brain from doing its deed when called upon in unnatural circumstances. As the graphs obtained directly from the watches suggest, prior to any flight, there is a rise in the heart rate above the underlying “resting” threshold.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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. I was soon sitting in the seat, feet on pedals, hand on throttle, and back on the overrun taxiing to the threshold. I took a quick look at the prop and flipped the mag switch.

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AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Examination of the accident site confirmed flight-control continuity from the cockpit to all flight control surfaces. The private pilot was fatally injured.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 2, 2024

miles short of the runway threshold, it crashed into trees. He opened the baggage compartment, entered and exited the cockpit several times, walked around the front of the airplane, and stopped in front of each wing. Approximately 1.7 The pilot and a passenger were killed.

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 3, 2024

A multi-state cross country trip like the one we were taking means a lot of time together in the close confines of an airplane cockpit. I felt another flash of irritation when the Arrow stopped on the runway and dawdled for a while as we rapidly closed the distance with the runway threshold on short final.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

One of the most important lessons learned was that the one thing you don’t check on the exterior preflight inspection, or cockpit setup, is the very thing that will be wrong. But just as I crossed the runway threshold at 50 feet, the genie leaped from its bottle and the nose once again pitched over violently.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Riverbeds draw fun-loving pilots like flies to Christmas pudding, as on December 25, 2021 near Rainbow, Texas, when a Boeingagain, not one of thoseinstead, this was a WWII-vintage Stearman PT17 open-cockpit, biplane built by the old Boeing that understood structural integrity. No doors, no problem. Lose a wing, theres a spare.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 28, 2024

To make matters more stressful, I was getting a line check by an FAA inspector who was sitting behind me in the cockpit jump seat. From the threshold to taxiway D5 gave me a little over 5,000 feet to land and stop. He would obviously see me deviate from SOP by not crossing the threshold on the glide slope and may write me up over it.

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Cranky Flier

JANUARY 2, 2025

Greengsg9 – The B737 MAX will get MAX10 certified by the FAA, but certification will be denied by EASA/CAAC without a cockpit alert system 727200 – 777X certified (finally) but Boeing bungles something else massively. Evan – Boeing finally gets a management change. Is Riyadh Air on Track?

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