Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

The FAA Terminal Instrument Procedures (TERPS) use the following Vref speeds to determine the aircraft approach category: Category A: Speed 90 knots or less. Small Single-Engine) Category B: Between 91 and 120 knots. Small Multi-Engine) Category C: Between 121 and 140 knots. Airliner) Category D: Between 141 knots and 165 knots.

Weight-Shift-Control

Aerotime

MAY 28, 2025

Building on a strong legacy of German aircraft design and based on the Dornier 328 regional airliner, the D328eco promises to revolutionize the regional aircraft arena, with its increased passenger capacity and maximum range of 1,205 nautical miles (2,231km).

Runway

Aerotime

APRIL 15, 2025

Pilatus The OpenSky network has proven successful in enabling business aviation travelers to reach their most sought-after destinations, which are not served by regional airlines and would be too time-consuming to access through other transportation methods. Fractional executive aircraft ownership is also relatively new.

Runway

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Long story short, weather conditions in Toronto werent great, with winds of 23 knots, gusting up to 33 knots. Initial reports indicate that a Delta Airlines CRJ-900, operating as Delta Flight 4819 from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) to Toronto (YYZ), was involved in the incident. Minnesota to Toronto.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

JULY 31, 2025

The 2013 ATP 1,500-hour requirement for airline pilots raised training costs by turning flight schools into airline pipelines. JMB Aircraft’s VL3 Evolution, a carbon-fiber LSA from the Czech Republic, cruises at 199 knots with a Rotax 915iS engine, dual Garmin G3X Touch displays, GFC 500 autopilot, and optional BRS parachute.

VOR

One Mile at a Time

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its interesting to note that the plane was both lower than it shouldve been, and also quite a bit faster, as it was going 173 knots. Just to compare this to the typical numbers, the Asiana A350 operating the same flight the day before was at roughly 775 feet, and traveling 136 knots, around the same point.

Approach

AV Web

MARCH 9, 2025

Mallard Enterprises has sold 30 of its ME-1A twin turboprops to a South African start up regional airline JOLY. The capacious flying boat will carry 19 passengers 350 nautical miles at 250 knots in the regional airline configuration. There is also a 10-passenger executive layout with a range of 980 nm.

Knot

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 20, 2025

At the time of the accident, winds were at an angle of 270 degrees (the runway was at an angle of 230 degrees), at 28 knots, gusting to 35 knots. degrees Less than one second before touchdown, the plane had an indicated airspeed of 134 knots, a ground speed of 111 knots, a bank angle of 7.1

Descent

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2025

The aerospace giant has released video of the test aircraft attempting to land in winds of 40-60 knots in Lubbock, Texas. Those are used by our customers, the airlines.” READ MORE: Airbus Will Take Spirit AeroSystems Assets as Part of Carve-Up With Boeing Boeing has taken this to the next level with the testing of its 777X.

Crosswind

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The airline industry is not immune to this phenomenon, and, in fact, some carriers fully embrace it. On February 14, 2025, Icelandic low-cost airline PLAY made one of its aircraft available as an inflight wedding venue. The couple tied the knot mid-route, exactly halfway between the two countries.

Cabin Crew

Flying Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

Archer Aviation’s Midnight and Joby Aviation’s S4, for example, are designed for short-hop flights cruising at less than 175 knots. The TriFan 600, by contrast, is expected to exceed 850 nm and 260 knots. Last year, the company announced a conditional order for 100 aircraft from regional carrier Mesa Airlines.

Lift

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Since it’s a ratio, it doesn’t matter if you measure speed in knots, miles per hour, or meters per second. At sea level on a standard day (15 °C or 59 °F), sound travels about 661 knots (approximately 761 mph or 1,225 km/h). Here, Mach 1 is roughly 573 knots (about 659 mph). The Mach value stays the same.

True Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

I have seen military pilots, multi-thousand-hour airline captains, and 100-hour private pilots, each of whom fits that description. While the ground-bound commuters down below trudge along in heavy traffic along the highways and byways, we pilots get to play three-dimensional chess at 150 knots or so in our piston-powered magic carpets.

Pilot

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 21, 2025

A Southwest Airlines jet attempted to take off from a taxiway yesterday, somehow mistaking it for a runway in broad daylight. Orlando Airport map (MCO) According to ADS-B data, the aircraft made it all the way to 70 knots before it rejected its takeoff, after an air traffic controller warned them of what was going on.

Air Traffic Control

Flying Magazine

JUNE 23, 2025

Some of these are quite precise: for one Cessna single, the procedure is to establish a 300 fpm descent at 55 knots. That takes power; fly at 65 knots (flaps up) or 60 knots (10 degrees of flaps) if there is no power. Jim Wolper is an airline transport pilot and retired mathematics professor. The airplane was lost at sea.”

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2025

In 1929, he earned the Collier Trophy as the designer of the efficient NACA cowl for radial engines that graced so many of the air racers, airliners, fighters, and bombers that followed. With the canopy open, the wind in your hair, and the leisurely 80-knot cruise, it is flying at its most basic best.

Rudder

AV Web

MARCH 21, 2025

A Southwest crew got their aircraft up to 70 knots on a taxiway in Orlando before a controller noticed and ordered them to stop on Thursday. The crew mistook the surface for the nearby runway, an airline statement said. 3278 stop, 3278 stop. Stop Southwest 3278, stop! CNN quoted the controller as saying. Cancel takeoff clearance.

Clearance

Airline Reporter

APRIL 8, 2025

Two years ago, I got to experience the world’s longest flight, Singapore Airlines’ route between Singapore and New York. On the ground at New York JFK Singapore Airlines currently operates out of Terminal 4 at JFK. The airline doesn’t operate its own lounge here. The passenger experience matters.

Airlines

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 20, 2025

The Comet was the world’s first commercial jet-powered airliner, featuring a sleek design with a long, narrow fuselage and distinctive inboard engine inlets nestled within the wing roots. Photo via de Havilland Aircraft Museum However, the Comet’s entry into the airline industry was not without challenges.

Knot

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

The models cruise speed of about 150 knots, demonstrated range of 336 nm, and charge time of less than one hour make it suited for regional trips with minimal downtime. Archer, for example, in April unveiled potential routes for its New York home-to-airport service with United Airlines. Both have eyes on the Big Apple.

Air Traffic Control

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. Instead of a gentle breeze out of the west, we had over 20 knots of headwind blowing out of the south. Obviously, the winds aloft were nowhere near forecast.

VOR

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From simple mechanical linkages in small aircraft to high-tech fly-by-wire systems in airliners, ailerons have evolved with aviation itself. You might be surprised to learn that tiny four-seater Cessna 172s and 140-passenger Boeing 707 airliners both use simple cables for moving the ailerons and elevators!

Aileron

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 2, 2025

Whats exciting is that the airline recently started taking delivery of 787s , representing a new era for the carrier. The roughly five-year-old Dreamliner was intended for Chinas Hainan Airlines, then flew for Vietnams Bamboo Airways, and then it was transfered to Austrian. Austrian is one of the few airlines to have inflight chefs.

Approach

Cranky Flier

JUNE 26, 2025

The airlines aren’t codesharing, there is no pricing or schedule coordination, and in general, they’ve followed the guidance that the judge who shot down the Northeast Alliance (NEA) between American and JetBlue gave on how to construct a legal partnership. It won the NEA fight, but it lost its own merger bid with JetBlue.

Thrust

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 18, 2025

Weather conditions werent good at all, with winds at the time reported as being at 22 knots, and gusting to 36 knots. As Ive written about before, the airline industry definitely has a juniority problem, especially at regional airlines. The flight was operated by a 17-year-old CRJ-900 with the registration code N185GJ.

Air Traffic Control

Air Facts

APRIL 9, 2025

Or imagine talking to experts on the ground, much like airline pilots do with dispatch: you might send a picture of erratic CHT readings on your engine monitor to your A&P, or text an experienced flight instructor about the weather up ahead. Do airlines even need windows anymore? Ride along and find out!). Kids these days, right?

Weather

AV Web

MAY 14, 2025

A confluence of errors and misfortune characterizes the accident report from Transport Canada on a Boeing 737-800 operated by low-cost Canadian operator Flair Airlines. There were no injuries among the 140 on board after the aircraft departed the runway on landing at Waterloo Airport (CYKF) on November 25, 2022.

Thrust

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

Adam Estes) Inside the museum one can find a former United Airlines Boeing 727-100 (registration number N7017U) hanging from the second story balcony. In 1991, N7017U was retired from United Airlines operational fleet, but instead of being scavenged for parts and scrapped, N7017U was donated to the Museum of Science and Industry.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 18, 2025

For missions that would entail a tedious drive of several hours via automobile but are too short to be reasonably served by the airlines, a complex, high-performance airplane is virtually unbeatable when it comes to door-to-door travel times. These include a new nose bowl and dorsal fin/tail root fairings from Lasar Speed Mods.

Transponder

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

Target or bucket reversers were commonly used on many first-generation turbofan airliners and some military jets. You’ll find cascade thrust reversers on almost every modern airliner engine. By the time the aircraft decelerates below roughly 80 knots, the pilot moves the reverser controls to the idle reverse position.

Thrust

Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

The most recent case, when Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 experienced extreme turbulence in May 2024, led to thirty passengers injured and one death by a passenger who suffered a heart attack. Before that, the most recent turbulence-related passenger flight with a fatality in the NTSB database was United Airlines flight 826 in 1997.

Turbulence

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In the airline world, descent planning and execution receives a lot of attention. To cope with these challenges, airline glass flight decks contain a vertical navigation function (VNAV) that keeps the autopilot, and the crew, on the right path to arrive at the final approach fix, or downwind leg, at speed and on altitude.

Descent

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It’s a bright sunny day, great visibility, some high stratus clouds, a bit windy maybe (050 at 10 knots gusting to 15 knots), and folks are wearing hoodies as the temperature is a brisk 38 degrees Fahrenheit. NASA researchers found “concurrent task demands” present in a “great majority” of crew error airline accidents since 1990.

Knot

Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

As the pilot responded, the airplane bank angle increased to 90 degrees and the airspeed exceeded 260 knots, then the aircraft experienced structural failure and hit the water. It is part of the airline company operating procedures. ATC asked the pilot to verify his heading. Although NTSB 830.5

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 14, 2025

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner had just lifted off from Ahmedabad airport (VAAH) bound for London when video shows the airline barely climbing, then it began a slow descent into a building off the end of the runway. The crash and subsequent fire killed 260 people, of whom 18 were on the ground. One passenger survived.

Cockpit

Fear of Landing

JUNE 27, 2025

Near Miss at Midway Flight paths for SWA2504 (orange) and ground path for LXJ560 (blue) showing The NTSB has released the preliminary report on the runway incursion which caused Southwest Airlines 2504 to perform a last-minute go-around. They will be livestreamed on the NTSB YouTube channel.

Descent

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Suppose the switch is set to taxi, and the aircraft is flying above 40 knots. Logo Lights Logo lights are lights mounted on the horizontal stabilizer of an aircraft and point upward toward the vertical stabilizer, illuminating the airlines logo. On older aircraft, they are sometimes located on the wingtips, pointing backward.

Airplanes