Flight Training Central

MAY 28, 2024

Sitting in the flight deck during the cruise portion of any flight may have a tendency to become monotonous. VFR approaches to land at night should be accomplished with a steeper descent. Share your results : Facebook Facebook Twitter Google+ Want to learn more about aviation weather theory? at a higher airspeed.

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Crosswind Runway Air Traffic Control Approach 98

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. Specifically, that weather radar struggles with very cold/icy storms.

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Airlines Airline Cockpit Weather 83

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

It is not uncommon for air traffic control to pose this question to pilots on IFR flight plans approaching certain airports when the weather is VFR. But throw in weather, fatigue, low light, pilot unfamiliarity, and a circle to land, and it’s a different event.

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Approach Air Traffic Control Runway Flight Deck 92

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. 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.

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Flight Deck Cockpit Approach Descent 67

Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

However, the static pressure around the pitot tube is constantly changing due to altitude and weather. One thing a pilot must keep in mind is that changes in weather conditions along their route causes changes in the atmospheric pressure, regardless of maintaining the same indicated altitude. The opposite happens as the plane descends.

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Pitot Tube Altimeter Instrument Meteorological Conditions Descent 68

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Some of these systems are related to the airplane being bigger, others are related to passenger and crew comfort, while other systems are related to operating in foul weather. There are different levels of warning systems, as well as logic behind the warning system inhibition during certain phases of flight.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control 52

Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

Flashes of previous 737 experience, flight training, moving all over the planet, Phoenix, Girona, Rome, Barcelona, Hong Kong, manuals, operating procedures and limitations. I see my name on the crew list, I sign in and read the flight plan, notams and weather. Descent briefing, approach briefing, and down we go.

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Jet Flight Deck Cargo Thrust 52