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. By 29, he was a captain with TACA and had logged over 13,400 hours of flight time. Both engines were out.

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Pilot Flight Deck Weather Descent 96

Fear of Landing

MARCH 7, 2025

TACA flight 110, 24 May 1988 TACA (Transportes Aereos Centro Americanos) was El Salvadors national airline. It had a complicated history, starting in 1930s Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as a cargo airline. The First Officer, Dionisio Lpez, was nearly as experienced as Carlos with 12,000 flight hours.

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Flight Deck Pilot Air Traffic Control Weather 52

Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

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. Arriving at the flight deck door, I performed the normal cockpit entry procedure but received no response. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

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Flight Deck Cockpit Approach Descent 96

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the inexpensive thrill of soaring in a glider to the massive expense of a commercial airliner, there is a lot to consider regarding the cost of the flight. Large Private Jets / Regional Jets: $10 million – $80 million Commercial Airliners: $80 million – over $400 million How Much Do Airplanes Cost? million – $8.8

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Airplanes Jet General Aviation Hangar 98

Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

I peek quickly at the empty belly , as I climb further up to the flight deck. Cleared for takeoff! ‘Set thrust.’ I remember a moment on the 737: it was an extremely long 4-sector day with lots of delays, issues and returning from our last flight hours too late. Today’s training will be done on an ERF.

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Jet Flight Deck Cargo Thrust 52

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

The cockpit, also called the flight deck, is where pilots use electronic flight instruments as part of a primary flight display. Various aircraft engines are in use throughout the aviation industry, including: Piston engines: Smaller planes use this system for primary flight control.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Fly with Eva

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

The fire hose In my previous airline I never got to see the head office or any of the operational departments. But the new airline has all of its departments, including the simulators and management, at one location. The new flight deck feels comfortable very fast, and you get used to the handling differences quickly.

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Approach Flight Deck Cargo Pilot 52

Aerotime

MAY 29, 2025

The start of the year also saw Vertical Aerospace complete its first piloted thrustborne flight maneuvers and become only the second company in the world, after Joby Aviation, to achieve the step using a full-scale vectored thrust eVTOL aircraft.

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Pilot Flight Deck Payload Thrust 259

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. In particular, new hire airline pilot training is equated to trying to get a drink of water from a fire hose.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control 52

Fear of Landing

MAY 16, 2025

During the take-off run, the Pilot Flying will increase the thrust and then keep their hand on the thrust levers, ready to pull power back in case the take-off needs to be aborted. After V1, the Pilot Flying’s hand should be removed from the thrust levers. He pulled the thrust levers back to idle.

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Thrust V Speed Knot Runway 100

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On the 9th of July 2024, flight LA8073, operated by the Chilean airline LATAM, departed from Milano Malpensa for a passenger flight to São Paulo, Brazil. Then 383 passengers boarded for the flight, making for a total of 398 people on board. I still can’t watch the video without wincing.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 97

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Operating the flight was Global Exec Aviation, a charter company based in Long Beach, California. On the flight deck that day were James Bland and Sarah Lemmon. The aircraft was a two-year-old Learjet 60 with only 108 flight hours on the aircraft. Compounding this was an inadvertent retraction of the thrust reversers.

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Runway Thrust Knot Air Traffic Control 208

Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

And there were plenty of accidents; a few airliner crashes a month, while tragic, were not unheard of. 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. The question of course is why?

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