Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

It was Sunday, the 9th of June 2024, and Arlberg was flying Austrian Airlines flight 434 from Palma de Mallorca, Spain, back home to Vienna. The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet. There were 173 passengers and 6 crew on board.

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Airlines Airline Weather Cockpit 92

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 2, 2024

If in this situation, make sure to transition your eyes to inside the flight deck. An increasing rate of descent. High rate of descent – shown on your vertical speed indicator. If you pull back on the control column, you will see a reduction in the rate of descent. But the incorrect recovery.

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Altimeter Descent Turbulence Lift 52

Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

The vertical speed indicator (VSI) indicates if the aircraft is climbing, descending or in level flight. The indication given is a rate of climb or descent in feet per minute (fpm). If the static port becomes blocked, the alternate static source can be opened, which will then read the static pressure inside the flight deck.

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Pitot Tube Altimeter Instrument Meteorological Conditions Descent 74

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As the flight drew closer to its destination, the first officer contacted the Voepass operational dispatcher at Guarulhos to coordinate their arrival. A cabin crew member contacted the flight deck, but the first officer asked her to wait while he finished dealing with dispatch. The flight crew confirmed SANPA.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 89

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

The airlines use their high-fidelity flight simulators to great advantage, and when combined with stick shakers, multicrew flight decks, and low-speed and stall-warning systems, the training is excellent. Initial Buffet How do you train for stall avoidance in an airplane that you should not stall?

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Approach Airplanes Pilot Horizontal Stabilizer 62

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 20, 2024

Once again, no announcements from the flight deck and the flight purser did the job. For this flight, the crew controlled the window shade so for most parts of cruising, the light was in dimmed mode. At this point, we started our descent into Singapore, flying near Malaysia. Don't mind the dirty windows!

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Runway Descent Airlines Airline 59

AV Web

OCTOBER 6, 2024

During the flight, pilots issued a Mayday after detecting smoke on the flight deck. According to the Aviation Herald , there were also reports the pilots donned masks during the descent and that they were unable to transmit on the radio.

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Flight Deck Descent Pilot Airlines 95

Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

As I walked up the darkened aisle toward the flight deck, I noticed several flight attendants huddled together in the mid-galley talking in hushed tones. Arriving at the flight deck door, I performed the normal cockpit entry procedure but received no response. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

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Flight Deck Cockpit Approach Descent 96

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Anti-Ice, Rain: flight deck window heat, windshield wipers, probe heat, and anti-ice/de-ice systems that either prevent ice from accumulating on lift generating surfaces and engines, or break the ice off after it’s accumulated. Descent planning can be complicated and needs to be done more than 100 miles from the destination.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control 52

Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

I peek quickly at the empty belly , as I climb further up to the flight deck. I remember a moment on the 737: it was an extremely long 4-sector day with lots of delays, issues and returning from our last flight hours too late. Back to today: after a short flight over the South China Sea, we reach the Philippine coastline.

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Jet Flight Deck Cargo Thrust 52