Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 17, 2025

Singapore Airlines A350-900 9V-SJI doing it's flight test before delivery to the airline (Photo: Dn280) I am quite fortunate to have gotten this aircraft as my ride back to Singapore because this is not only the newest A350-900 in the fleet, it is also the last A350 on order for the airline.

Airlines

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. Airliners may take a couple of minutes for a single oscillation. The Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) will show a cycle of shallow climbs and descents. This constant exchange creates the oscillation.

Stability

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 17, 2025

Initially I was thinking of one of the budget airlines based in either Gatwick or Luton Airport but because London City Airport was closer to my accommodation and the lure to fly on the Airbus A220-100 once again was too much for me, I decided to fly with ITA Airways to Milan (LIN) in the morning and back in the evening.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

For Air France, this is the primary airport for both regional and international flights and is popular with international airlines from all continents. Skyteam Airlines are assigned 2E for international routes and 2F for Schengen routes. After an hour of flying, we started our descent into Barcelona. Touched down!

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 30, 2025

This is SE-RSA before it left SAS's fleet to join China Airlines to become registered as B-18919. So to avoid this situation, the airline decided to return some of the aircraft to the leasing companies, which results to the airline cutting the A350 fleet from 6 to 3 and SE-RSA was one of the A350 returned to the lessor.

Airlines

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 24, 2025

This includes the direct flight with Peach on the airline's A321LR and also the chance to try out Zipair from Tokyo Narita to Singapore but that means I had to either fly or take the train ride from Osaka to Tokyo Narita. This airline was set up in 2011 and started operation a year later.

Final Approach

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Fixed-Wing Foibles Consider the Airbus first officer (FO) who tried to satisfy ATCs request to increase their descent (rate), so he engaged open descent mode. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Thats FA tenacity.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We will also examine the next most critical phase of our flight, from descent and deceleration to the approach and landing phases, even touching upon what happens when the aircraft arrives safely at the gate. EQRoy / Shutterstock This is a regular source of passenger frustration on certain airlines.

Cabin Crew

Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

They already have orders for up to 1,000 aircraft, with customers including American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and AirAsia. As a result, there was no longer enough vertical thrust, although, to be fair, the prototype remained level as it descended towards the ground. A vertical descent rate of 19.5

Descent

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Its almost unthinkable in an airliner, and surely tensions were high in the flight deck. After proving his flying ability with a single eye, he would go on to be hired by TACA Airlines. On the initial descent, weather radar painted areas of moderate to heavy precipitation ahead. Both engines were out.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

This airline is operating a massive fleet of over 550 aircraft (July 2024) excluding the wet lease aircraft of 2 Turkish Airlines's Boeing 777-300ER and damp lease of 6 Qatar Airways Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft. This is Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER painted in Indigo's livery. Welcome to my trip report on Indigo!

Descent

Ask Captain Lim

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

United Airlines DC-10 Photo Credit: Kplastique (Wikimedia Commons) What can you do when the hydraulic system in your plane fails? On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10, crash-landed at Sioux City Airport after a catastrophic failure of its tail engine had caused a loss of all hydraulic control.

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Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

He told me we were initially directed to divert to Portland, then Vancouver, British Columbia after they closed the airspace, but since our airline was not serving Vancouver, we would have no company support when we arrived. They’re probably not getting any information from the airline on our status or where we are.

Flight Deck

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The elevator, situated on the horizontal tail surface, adjusts pitch, raising or lowering the nose for ascent or descent. The collective adjusts the pitch angle of all rotor blades simultaneously, controlling vertical movementraising the collective increases lift for ascent, while lowering it causes descent.

Torque

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Welcome to my Delta Airlines 767-400ER Trip report! Introduction At this time of blogging, Delta Airlines offered 2 daily flights to GRU (Sao Paulo), I can chose either to fly to London Heathrow via Atlanta or New York JFK. Premium Select (2-2-2 seating configuration - 20 seats) This is the airline's premium economy class.

Airlines

Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

Cleared for takeoff! ‘Set thrust.’ Descent briefing, approach briefing, and down we go. ’ Quickly take off thrust, and back in the air we go, flight directors off, and time for some visual circuits. ’ There we go, rattling on runway 07R. Cleared to land! We are approaching Clark airport.

Jet

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If you are lucky, you might fly one of the airline's aircraft painted in the Pokemon special livery. As I had already flown with Starflyer and Peach, I looked the my other options and they are Solaseed Air, Jetstar Japan, Sky Airlines, Japan Airlines and it's subsidiaries and ANA. Passenger's pick up point at the ground level.

Cabin Crew

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

At this time of blogging) Air India and Vistara will be merged into one airline, with Air India branding continue to exist. Vistara's flight code, UK will no longer exist and so will the airline's website which would direct passengers to Air India's website for booking and redemption. Fortunately, my flight was not affected.

Cabin Crew

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 15, 2024

This is Hainan Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner operating on Changsha to London Heathrow route. Japan Airlines Boeing 777-300ER getting ready for departure to Tokyo Haneda Airport. The airline's Airbus A350-1000 The airline's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Qantas Lounge is located near our departure gate, gate 1.

Runway

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A significant amount of thrust generated by the engine comes from the fan rather than the core. Image: Stages in a turbine engine Geared Turbofan – A New Class In recent years a hybrid engine has entered airline service. Descent planning can be complicated and needs to be done more than 100 miles from the destination.

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Air Facts

JUNE 12, 2024

Joe was just short of celebrating his 50th anniversary as an employee of Hawaiian Airlines when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. He asked to be taken home to Kona on his own airline, but the only aircraft available was one of our 304 seat Trans-Pacific DC-10s. But this was Hawaii, and we not the usual airline.

Air Traffic Control

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Introduction What a way to celebrate my first ever Indian domestic flight experience by flying on the airline's brand new Airbus A350-900. Let's say I didn't have the best first impression of this airline and I believe some of you have read about the negative reviews of the airline in almost all aspects of air travel with this airline.

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