AV Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Some of them seem funny to us now, like the fact that most of our airplanes had no radios or, God forbid, transponders and ELTs, while other facets of the 1970s are tragic. When I became an airline pilot at the beginning of 1979, the training classes and flight decks were male only clubs.

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Flight Deck Transponder Cockpit Checkride 95

AeroSavvy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Equipment Check My airline assigns the first officer (or International Relief Officer on long flights) to inspect flight deck equipment. Boeing 767-300F flight deck Cockpit Setup – Go With the Flow! Crews typically test the TCAS and Radar/Windshear systems before the first flight of the day.

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Flight Deck Clearance Runway Pilot 52

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 27, 2025

Its clear that something wasnt right in the flight deck of that helicopter, between the Captain and Warrant Officer seemingly having different altitude readings without addressing that (despite the importance of exact altitude in this airspace), and the Warrant Officer suggesting a left turn, but the Captain just proceeding on course.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Jet Transponder 62

Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Keep interaction with passengers, other tasks you might want to perform during your flight, or even management of the resources used in the flight deck—such as an electronic flight bag (EFB) device—to periods where the workload is minimal and you don’t sacrifice attention necessary to complete more critical tasks.

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Pilot Weather Approach Air Traffic Control 93

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. Based on our needs, we added an IFR GPS, an ADS-B In and Out transponder, and most recently a simple yet full-featured autopilot to our trusty Cessna Cardinal. Time marches on.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 99

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In all new F2s, youll be facing a full Garmin G3X Touch EFIS, supported by a two-axis autopilot, G5 backup EFIS, transponder, com radio, audio panel and, in the demo airplane I flew, a Garmin GPS 175 IFR-approved navigator. Otherwise, the F2s flight deck layout is generally straightforward.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98