Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

However, at the same time, he noticed that the airspeed indicator wasn’t showing the V-speed bugs: as Pilot Monitoring, he needed to monitor the V-speeds to give guidance to the Pilot Flying. As it happened, he still remembered the speeds from that aborted take off. The Challenger 300 was airborne.

Turbulence

Fear of Landing

JULY 25, 2025

The first officer would use the aircraft weight, along with the environmental conditions and the runway parameters, to determine the V-speeds for the flight and enter them into the flight management system. Air Traffic Control noticed the same thing, calling the crew to ask whether they needed their taxi to be delayed.

Ferry Flight

Aerotime

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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Drag

Fear of Landing

AUGUST 2, 2024

Once safely off the ground, the flight crew climbed to 5,000 feet and informed Air Traffic Control that they would be returning to the airport to have the aircraft checked over. The crew gives the final fuel figures to the load controller. Generally, the sequence is pretty simple.

Tail

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

. […] There are many checks and balances which should catch a slip like this, as the wrong weight has serious consequences: not just that the airspeed is too high or low for rotation, but that all of the V-speeds are off, which affects go/no-go decisions. These V-speeds need to be calculated for every flight.

Tail