Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

These all seem pretty logical to us as drivers, but too much of the time, we don’t think defensively as pilots in our flying. The same concepts we use in defensive driving apply to flight operations to help us mitigate risks of violations, incidents, or accidents.

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Pilot Approach Weather Air Traffic Control 91

Northstar VFR

APRIL 25, 2024

There are some things that future pilots should know before taking on the demands of flight training. It’s important to maintain reasonable expectations of your flight school, your instructor, and your capabilities throughout the learning process. Financing is an option but is a last resort for most pilots.

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Pilot Checkride Flight Deck Weather 77

Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

A representative of Austrian Airlines said on Austrian television that the thunderstorm cell was not visible on the aircraft’s weather radar. The limitations of weather radar came up in the discussion about the extreme turbulence suffered by Singapore Airlines flight SQ321. A high psychological strain for the crew.

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Airlines Airline Cockpit Weather 83

Pilot's Life Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Throughout your attendance at our flight school in Arizona , you’ll learn about numerous protocols and tactics to protect and maintain stability during flights. Crew resource management is one of those all-important aspects that can solidify your career as you mature as a pilot. Therefore, you’ll utilize CRM all day, every day.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Pilot Weather 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 3, 2024

For all ACS, the following changes have been made: Added an introductory note in the Foreword referencing and explaining the ACS Companion Guide for Pilots. Added Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge (FAA-H-8083-25) and the Risk Management Handbook (FAA-H-8083-2) as a reference in various Tasks. Flight Deck Management PA.II.B.R3

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Airplanes Weather Flight Plan Pilot in Command 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Sporty’s comprehensive training course will help you ace your FAA written test, but it will also save you money during flight training and help you become a better pilot. 3 ADS-B Receiver Flying into actual IFR means dealing with weather. An ADS-B receiver is your key to real time weather, traffic, GPS, ARHS… and more.

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Weather Flight Deck Cockpit Approach 52

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

To demonstrate this magnificent place, I chose horrendously gusty winds by manually editing the weather in both X-Plane 12 (XP12) and MSFS2020. Left downwind on a blustery day with live weather actually shows a virga burst over the field, with local winds gusting 36 knots, making for some extreme conditions in such a tight canyon.

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Crosswind Weather Knot Aileron 105

Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

Decades ago, when I learned to fly, it was well-known that a commercial co-pilot/first officer was allowed to occupy the right seat of a transport airplane only if they’d proven themselves subservient enough to understand that the guy in the left seat was perfectly capable of handling the airplane all by himself.

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Flight Plan Knot Runway Cockpit 105

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

You’ve just passed your private pilot check ride. Along with being free to explore the skies, you can now—if you so choose—wave goodbye to the staid, serviceable set of wings that got you there and try something a bit better suited to whatever dream it was that had you stepping through the flight school door in the first place.

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Knot Pilot Cockpit Flight Deck 101

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. This would work great for me as I would get the highly desired middle break during our 10 hour flight home. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

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Flight Deck Cockpit Approach Descent 67

Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI Two of the most important pieces of information that every pilot needs to know while flying is how high you are and how fast you’re going. Pilots rely on the airspeed indicator and altimeter instruments to measure and display this vital information. As the diaphragm moves, the needle of the ASI moves.

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Pitot Tube Altimeter Instrument Meteorological Conditions Descent 68

AeroSavvy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Time for Work The flight crew arrives at the Boeing 767 freighter between 30 and 60 minutes prior to departure. If the pilots expect an on-time departure, they’ll be busy until pushback. This is a general overview of what’s involved in preparing the aircraft for flight. The inspection takes a few minutes to complete.

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Flight Deck Clearance Runway Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 26, 2024

We won’t help you practice your pilot voice, though… Preflight Preparation Talking to ATC can undoubtedly be stressful when you first start. Learn the Phonetic Alphabet Pilots and controllers use the phonetic alphabet to communicate clearly. You can listen in on real exchanges between ATC and pilots.

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Clearance Runway Approach Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

Garmin is adding a new layer to aviation safety through the certification of new software that alerts pilots to possible runway incursions, it announced Wednesday. “Equipping pilots with this technology can reduce the risk of runway incursions and help provide confidence for pilots navigating busy and complex airports.”

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Runway Flight Deck Primary Flight Display Pilot 71

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. I wrote earlier that becoming a pilot was never my childhood dream.

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Jet Flight Deck Cargo Thrust 52

Pilot Job Central

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Unlock your pilot career with airline pilot cadet programs. Whether you are aspiring pilot looking to kickstart your aviation career or a recent flight school graduate, modern airline pilot cadet programs can be a fit for your pilot career goals. Table of Contents What is an airline pilot cadet program?

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Pilot Airlines Airline Cargo 52

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

The complexity of the instrument panel has served either to intrigue or intimidate potential pilots. Subscribe Now Featured And for new pilots—and this pilot who flies Cirrus aircraft sporadically—as opposed to a seasoned owner or dedicated Cirrus instructor, the barrier to entry and re-entry has fallen significantly.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

ADFs, marker beacons, and VOR receivers, each relying on a constantly shrinking population of land-based navaids, fill these dated flight decks. One step up the ladder, the frequent traveler and light IFR pilot may opt for an advanced autopilot, digital glass attitude, and heading displays, and ADS-B In on a tablet or portable.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 96

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The trap comes in the feeling of supreme IFR proficiency after the checkride with the possibility that not much experience has been gained in the cross-country environment; managing weather, planning for alternates, communicating with ATC or dealing with equipment malfunctions.

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Checkride Weather Flight Deck Approach 52

Professional Pilot

JUNE 10, 2024

For most pilots, electronic flight bags (EFBs) have sent all that paper for recycling. Let’s take another look at the digital cockpit aids now available to corporate pilots. All the charts needed for flight planning and en route, plus airport charts for taxiing to and from the runway. • A pilot logbook. •

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Flight Deck Weather Flight Plan NOTAMs 40

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The demand for professional pilots has never been greater. Airline pilot requirements and mandatory retirements have significantly impacted the pool of eligible candidates and, in many cases, have left flight departments at a shortage of qualified applicants.

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Pilot Airplanes Flight Deck Checkride 52

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 2, 2024

Being disoriented causes the pilot to make incorrect control corrections. If in this situation, make sure to transition your eyes to inside the flight deck. High Workload During a period of high workload, a pilot can become overloaded. Startle affects a pilot’s mental processing.

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Altimeter Descent Turbulence Lift 52

Pilot's Life Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Aircraft contain all kinds of wonderous indicators and instruments to measure velocity, altitude, weather conditions, etc. True to its name, the airspeed indicator tells you how fast the plane is going and is important for flight planning and maintaining aircraft performance. The pitot system captures dynamic, moving air.

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Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed True Airspeed Calibrated Airspeed 52

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 12, 2024

Weather is always an issue at an airshow and, while the windy conditions kept the temperature pleasant for the crowds, it prevented a safe airborne demonstration on Saturday. WildKat logged 2000 miles and 12 hours of flight time, consuming 1400 gallons of av gas and many gallons of oil. The airshow ended at 5:00 p.m.

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Cargo Hangar Ferry Flight Weather 115

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Airframes are rebuilt with innovative technology for improved performance, such as advanced flight deck avionics, and enhanced passenger cabin configurations. Shannon Forrest is a current line pilot, CRM facilitator, and aviation safety consultant. SpaceX’s Starlink Internet capability is expected in the future.

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Jet True Airspeed Weather Flight Deck 40

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Airframes are rebuilt with innovative technology for improved performance, such as advanced flight deck avionics, and enhanced passenger cabin configurations. Shannon Forrest is a current line pilot, CRM facilitator, and aviation safety consultant. SpaceX’s Starlink Internet capability is expected in the future.

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Jet True Airspeed Weather Flight Deck 40

Airspeed Junkie

APRIL 12, 2024

It could be well argued with great emotion that captain’s authority on the flight deck has greatly decreased. The key is to have a dialogue that both crews and management understand by laying out the facts and new theories and innovations that change what we as airline pilots may understand. Here we go.

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Pilot Airlines Airline Flight Deck 90