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

Flight Training Central

MAY 3, 2024

Replaced weather AC 00-6, AC 00-45, and AC 00-54 with the Aviation Weather Handbook (FAA-H-8083-28). Revised weather task sub-element texts to current weather products. Owner/Operator and pilot-in-command responsibilities Cross-Country Flight Planning PA.I.D.R7 Use of an electronic flight bag (EFB), if used.

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Airplanes Weather Flight Plan Pilot in Command 52

Pilot's Life Blog

MAY 6, 2024

For example, the weather forecast doesn’t call for severe weather. Applying Situational Awareness Situational awareness helps you avoid unpleasant surprises. It involves inventorying concerning details and strategizing methods to get around them. You concoct two courses of action.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Pilot Weather 52

Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Unlike commercial flights with robust support systems, GA pilots rely on their skills and instruments. Vigilance, monitoring traffic, and staying attuned to changing weather conditions contribute significantly to safety. Keeping distractions to a minimum is especially important during critical phases of flight.

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Pilot Approach Weather Air Traffic Control 93

Flying Magazine

MAY 16, 2024

Subscribe Now Featured Leadership on the flight deck sets those apart from the general pilot population—and there are ways to build your capabilities in this regard with greater assumption of authority along the way. Build relevant flight time. PB: Be professional, both in appearance and the way you handle yourself. Be prepared.

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Pilot Airlines Airline Flight Deck 97

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

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! I really enjoy the walk-around and never delegate in bad weather… typhoon, snow, sunshine, I don’t care.

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Flight Deck Clearance Runway Pilot 52

Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

It also led to the birth of cockpit resource management (CRM); a process designed to train crews to utilize all the flight deck’s human resources effectively. For turbine operators, Aspen is pretty much a one-way in, one-way-out airport; land Runway 15 and depart Runway 33 under all weather conditions.

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Flight Plan Knot Runway Cockpit 105

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

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

If you’re looking to get places quickly, overcoming all inclement weather, and staying aloft for as long as biology allows, move along. glass vs. analog gauges or Garmin flight deck vs. Avidyne), plopping yourself down in front of another without someone to teach you best practices and pitfalls is, quite frankly, a terrible idea.

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Knot Pilot Cockpit Flight Deck 101

Universal Weather

MARCH 29, 2024

For example, an onboard flight engineer, who does not have a seat in the flight deck, is considered to be a passenger and will require a visa depending upon nationality. For example, these delays may be caused by weather, strikes, radar failures, or military activity. Weather Fog conditions are common in the UK.

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Flight Plan General Aviation Weather Clearance 52

Northstar VFR

APRIL 25, 2024

If your school doesn’t have a simulator, software and simple flight controls can be purchased for under $500. If that’s still out of your budget, find a poster of your plane’s flight deck and use that for “chair flying.” Setbacks will happen in flight training, such as weather, maintenance, or CFI changes.

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Pilot Checkride Flight Deck Weather 77

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 14, 2024

This helps avoid runway and taxiway incursions in the busy and confusing airport environment, especially during low-light situations or during inclement weather when visibility is compromised. How It Works According to Garmin, ROA analyzes aircraft GPS and ADS-B traffic information resulting in enhanced situational awareness.

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Runway Flight Deck Primary Flight Display Pilot 74

Pilot Institute

APRIL 26, 2024

It’s used for aircraft registration, airport taxiways, holding points, weather broadcasts, and more. Enforce a Sterile Flight Deck We all know that there can be a lot of distractions when flying. When you talk to ATC, limit non-essential flight deck conversations. Learning this alphabet from A to Z is key.

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Clearance Runway Approach Pilot 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. I wrote earlier that becoming a pilot was never my childhood dream.

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Jet Flight Deck Cargo Thrust 52

Professional Pilot

JUNE 10, 2024

Some level of weather reports and forecasting – METARs, area forecasts, SIGMETs, AIRMETs, and pireps can be expected. Automatic flight logging and reporting. The Journey Log lets pilots capture a wide range of information about the flight for later analysis. can share Garmin avionics flight data. Garmin Pilot 6.2

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Flight Deck Weather Flight Plan NOTAMs 40

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

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. If you learned to fly on glass panels, as so many students do today, transitioning back to the traditional round dials, especially IFR in the weather, is similar to mastering the tailwheel.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 99

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

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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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. ADT pilots Brad O’Connor and Jim Dagg’s thousands of hours of combined flight experience was evident on the flight deck.

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Cargo Hangar Ferry Flight Weather 115

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

But there are multiple pathways to consider if the airline flight deck beckons. ATP Certification Recricted ATP (R-ATP) Transitioning from R-ATP to ATP ATP-CTP Requirements Building Flight Experience ATP Certification To be eligible to serve as an airline crew member, pilots must possess an Airline Transport Pilot Certificate (ATP).

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Pilot Airplanes Flight Deck Checkride 52

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 2, 2024

If in this situation, make sure to transition your eyes to inside the flight deck. Conduct a thorough weather briefing prior to the flight. The loss of visual reference can lead to spatial disorientation and vertigo. This disorientation can cause abrupt and incorrect control inputs, causing an unusual attitude.

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Altimeter Descent Turbulence Lift 52

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. The premier transformation is taking a stock Challenger 604 (derived from the Canadair 600 series first developed in 1976) and transforming it into a sleek, modern aircraft.

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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. The premier transformation is taking a stock Challenger 604 (derived from the Canadair 600 series first developed in 1976) and transforming it into a sleek, modern aircraft.

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Jet True Airspeed Weather Flight Deck 40

Pilot Job Central

OCTOBER 1, 2023

To navigate the path from aspiring pilot to an airline flight deck requires awareness of the challenges and considerations of such programs. For example, cadets will often be taught in airplanes with advanced glass flight decks. Enhance your knowledge and skill.

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Pilot Airlines Airline Cargo 52

Airspeed Junkie

APRIL 12, 2024

It could be well argued with great emotion that captain’s authority on the flight deck has greatly decreased. It can be things you notice, habits of ATC, a routine that dispatch does, runways that get closed, weather habits at certain airports and so on. Data makes the world go round.

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Pilot Airlines Airline Flight Deck 90