One Mile at a Time

APRIL 3, 2025

United entertainment selection 737 MAX United entertainment monitor 737 MAX In theory, United also has Channel 9, where you can listen to air traffic control audio. United map feature 737 MAX We had a smooth descent, and touched down in Miami at 9:40PM, as predicted.

Narrow-Body Aircraft

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Communication Protocols Clear communication with air traffic control (ATC) is vital for safety and efficiency. It requires managing descent rates, aligning with the runway, and controlling speed for a smooth touchdown. Pilots use standardized aviation language to convey information and receive instructions.

Weather

Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

While declaring does not guarantee a way out of a bad situation, it can connect a pilot with more resources such as air traffic control, which because of the nature of the job may have a better grasp of the options available. One accident that comes to mind is the crash of an Air Ambulance King Air 90 in Hawaii in December 2022.

Pilot

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. The pre-landing check is the first step in ensuring the aircraft is ready for a stable descent. Additionally, configure the aircraft for a stable descent.

Descent

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Learning this maneuver boosts your confidence and safety awareness, preparing you for unexpected situations in the cockpit and helping you become a skilled, ready pilot. Adjusting Bank Angle and Descent Rate: Control your descent by adjusting your bank angle and pitch. When should flaps be deployed during a power-off 180?

Pilot

Aerotime

APRIL 2, 2025

Moreover, the situation was worsened by communication issues between the crew and air traffic control. At 03:09:09 local time, the captain tried to contact the Vilnius Area control center (ACC) to report a descent into Vilnius but received no reply. At 03:26:15, the aircraft entered the final approach phase.

Cargo

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

A spring switch in the cockpit controlled the turbocharger wastegate, to select whether the turbocharger was engaged or bypassed (or midrange). The pilot did not request any air traffic control services for the 22-minute flight, and the airspace at the destination airport was not tower-controlled.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Air

JULY 24, 2025

TCAS , which stands for Traffic Collision Avoidance System, is the system that allows us to navigate these highways with maximum safety. Simply put, TCAS is a n on-board electronic system that operates independently of air traffic control (ATC) on the ground. Traffic Advisory (TA) This is the first level of alert.

Transponder

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

Solo, But Not Alone Air Facts Journal Giorgio’s voice came over the radio: “Nick, can you hear me? I sat in the cockpit of the old Tecnam P92-JS Echo, tail number I-GITR. We had practiced tacchi a terra (heels down on the pedals), ascents, descents, turns, volo lento (slow flight), stalls, and landing with engine and flap failures.

Runway

AV Web

MAY 15, 2025

While climbing through 26,600 feet, the pilot communicated with air traffic control but stopped responding after being instructed to level off at 33,000 feet. Air Force fighter jets intercepted it. Pilots reported seeing the pilot slumped over in the cockpit and unresponsive. No movement was observed in the cabin.

Air Traffic Control

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 5, 2025

Air traffic control, responding to the pilots odd transmission, simplified the clearance, issuing just a heading and an altitude. Among the wreckage pulled up from the depths was a cockpit video recorder. The roll was not checked by the pilot and continued past 60 degrees of bank and the descent rate increased.

Clearance

Aerotime

MARCH 24, 2025

On March 24, 2015, 150 people died after leaving Barcelona, Spain, for Dusseldorf, Germany when Lubitz locked himself alone in an Airbus A320 cockpit and flew the plane into the French Alps. He kept the cockpit door locked during the descent, despite requests for access made via the keypad and the cabin interphone.

Air Traffic Control

Fear of Landing

JULY 4, 2025

There was no cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder installed. CCTV footage showed the cockpit lights turn on and then the strobe lights started to flash. The footage showed the helicopter go dark as the strobe lights and the cockpit light were turned off again, again, likely the battery switch turned to off.

Cockpit

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

At Leopard Aviation , we teach this maneuver early on because knowing when and how to go around is a key part of good judgment in the cockpit. Communications with Air Traffic Control (ATC): Once the go-around is initiated, the pilot must immediately inform ATC by announcing the go-around.

Air Traffic Control

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

Use the camera control shortcut on your keyboard to look at the center pedestal and verify that it is pulled up into its highest setting of “auto rich.” READ MORE: Live Air Traffic Control Services Can Enhance Your Flight Sim Experience Next, verify that the fuel booster pump is set to “low.”

Flight Deck

Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

However, as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, the footage appears to show the aircraft making little attempt to arrest its rate of descent or initiate a flare by raising its nose to bleed off any excess airspeed before it touches down. It departed LAX at 16:06 local time and landed in Frankfurt at 11:14 the following morning.

Runway

Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet. While the aircraft was flying at a ground speed of 453 knots (about 840 kilometers per hour), countless hailstones battered the fuselage, engines, and cockpit windows. There were 173 passengers and 6 crew on board.

Airline

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Before the aircraft begins to move, on the left-hand ( port ) side of the aircraft you may also notice the ground crew waving a thin red flag at the captain (who always sits, aviation convention dictates, in the left-hand seat in the cockpit of fixed-wing aircraft). Part two will soon be available on AeroTime.

Cabin Crew

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

During the final stages of the flight, air traffic control told the pilot to expect the RNAV A approach to Montgomery County. Air Traffic Control cleared him to fly directly to BEGKA, a waypoint southwest of him. The controller confirmed a descent to 3,000 feet, the minimum safe altitude for BEGKA.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

A spring switch in the cockpit controlled the turbocharger wastegate, to select whether the turbocharger was engaged or bypassed (or midrange). The pilot did not request any air traffic control services for the 22-minute flight, and the airspace at the destination airport was not tower-controlled.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Fear of Landing

MAY 30, 2025

The controller repeatedly called the pilot but did not receive any response. Alerted by air traffic control, someone from the FAA contacted one of the owners, asking if there was some alternate method of reaching the pilot on the aircraft. They could see someone in the left cockpit seat, slumped over to the right.

Cockpit

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I had an easy out available to me: a descent of 1000 feet would bring me out of the clouds with plenty of altitude to spare above the terrain. Normally, when approaching a non-towered airport like Williamson Sodus, air traffic control will instruct the inbound aircraft to "squawk VFR" (i.e., Do you have a prop lock?

Transponder

Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

In reality, FAA has broken its own “sterile cockpit” rule, and unless the mature and experienced voices in the room stand up for reason and the cold, hard rules of aviating, navigating, and communicating, the system will continue its “graveyard spiral” to the inevitable consequences. It’s not a social science laboratory.

Clearance

Air Facts

JUNE 12, 2024

After take off, the air traffic controller seemed to know our special purpose when he gave us a non standard heading to fly and canceled our usual immediate climb requirement. Up in the cockpit we could hear Joe ‘s friend start to strum his base fiddle and a then a ukulele and many voices joined in.

Air Traffic Control

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

We were nearing the LAX airport at 18,000 feet and starting to get busy with the descent into SAN. When he got back to the cockpit, he told me he did not think the passengers had bought his explanation. Sending him back would be a pain in the rear as we were getting very busy with ATC, but decided to do it anyway.

Indicated Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway. Rescue crews extracted her from the plane.

Knot

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

If the fuselage is breached, that squeezed-together air rushes out. The pilots will don oxygen masks and take the plane to a lower altitude in what we call, plainly enough, an “emergency descent.” It’s hard to know, but I imagine the cockpit crew was quite busy. Rarely are decompressions deadly.

Descent

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

If you were the pilot in the cockpit, what would you do? A hard, flat landing at a high descent rate can still cause injury, even if the cabin remains intact. Keep a controlled descent and a level attitude to avoid any structural damage or injury. Instead, you can follow best glide speed procedures to stay in control.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway. Rescue crews extracted her from the plane.

Knot

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The flight then began its descent into Vilnius and passed to the north of the city on a right-hand downwind approach for its landing on runway 19 at Vilnius Airport. However, it has so far been revealed that air traffic control (ATC) at Vilnius Airport had been in contact with the crew of BCS18D throughout its final approach.

Final Approach