AV Web

JULY 25, 2025

I missed the show for quite a few years when I was an airline pilot because the last thing I wanted to do during my vacation from flying a thousand hours a year in airplanes was to hang around airplanes. For example, most career fliers (especially junior ones without summer vacations) miss the shindig because they are flying.

Gross Weight

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2025

Just some panels sliding closed – working similarly to modern flaps and slats on every commercial airliner. This increases to 815kg (1,800 lbs) if flying purely in conventional flight mode, using runways to take off and land.The maximum gross weight of the aircraft is stated as 2,500kg (5,500 lbs). No huge tilting wings.

Gross Weight

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If you learned in a four-seater, chances are most of your flying was with only two people on board, with a nice cushion below max gross weight and with a mid- or forward CG. Then I had occasion to fly with an airline pilot, giving him a ride home in his leaseback before I was to fly it back. He had the altitude nailed.

Crosswind

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 9, 2024

Its ability to carry both passengers and cargo efficiently has made it a favorite among airlines and passengers alike. With the ongoing growth in passenger and cargo traffic, this aircraft remains a key asset for airlines, aiding them in adapting to the changing commercial aviation landscape.

Payload

Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Few airlines are willing to pay the cost of training pilots to use synthetic vision systems (SVS) effectively, so airliners are rarely equipped with them. Yet suddenly, neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night would keep professional pilots on the ground – or divert them into it.

Flight Deck

iPad Pilot News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The weight and balance tool calculates gross weight and center of gravity for a wide range of airplanes. That’s mostly because ForeFlight serves a huge variety of operators, from student pilots to business jet pilots to airline pilots. Takeaways As you can see, there are a lot of options here.

Weather

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Six Brave Souls Air Facts Journal During the spring of 1977, I was a pilot for Skyway Airlines based at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Skyway was a small commuter airline that operated a fleet of seven airplanes, including one DC-3. Since we were now at our maximum gross weight, a full power takeoff was mandatory.

Gross Weight

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. The load controller also verifies whether all planned passengers are accounted for and receives the final baggage and cargo weights from the airline staff.

Tail

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

Way Back When The first time we rode on an airliner, in 1943, they didn’t go very fast, nor were they air-conditioned or pressurized. Riding the airlines then wasn’t so very different from rolling your own. Even the best flights stopped quite often. That’s what our last few trips had involved.

Weather