Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

At Leopard Aviation, we train students in the Cessna 172S Skyhawk, known for its stability and advanced Garmin G1000 avionics. While its not as widely used as the Cessna 172 or Piper Archer TX, its stability and easy handling make it a strong choice for certain training environments. Join us and train with the best in the skies.

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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. A few minutes later, we heard the center controller clear a Trans Missouri Airlines commuter plane for the VOR Runway 30 approach to Jefferson City.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

My ride: SX-NEC in the airline's new livery Introduction Flying with Aegean Airlines has been in my mind for a while and when the chance presented itself, I decided to go for it. However I would be flying Economy Class so will I be impressed with the airline? Welcome to my 2024 New Year trip report! Read on to find out.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 26, 2025

Welcome to the world of Clear Air Turbulence (CAT). Lets take a closer look at clear air turbulence, so you can anticipate where they might show up, and learn how to manage the risks involved. Lets take a closer look at clear air turbulence, so you can anticipate where they might show up, and learn how to manage the risks involved.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 1, 2024

The career progression of commercial pilots involves steps from Certified Flight Instructor to First Officer at regional airlines, and eventually to major airlines, where seniority plays a significant role in job security and salary, with the profession offering high financial rewards and opportunities for global travel.

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Professional Pilot

MAY 30, 2025

The aircraft features a single-lever digital engine and propeller control, an advanced Doppler radar system that detects lightning and turbulence, electronic stability and under-speed protection, and emergency descent mode. Probably the greatest single feature on the TBM 960 is the single-lever operation, comments Benson.

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Inflight Pilot Training

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Over the decades, autopilot systems grew more advanced, evolving from basic stabilizers to complex setups capable of managing nearly every phase of flight, from cruising at altitude to executing precision landings. Airlines spend heavily on pilot salaries, training, and benefitsexpenses that could shrink with autonomous aircraft.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. From simple mechanical linkages in small aircraft to high-tech fly-by-wire systems in airliners, ailerons have evolved with aviation itself. What Is Aircraft Stability?

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

Well discuss how phugoid motion relates to your aircrafts stability, what you can do to counter it, and even look at what it can do to an aircraft in severe cases. If youre visualizing tossing and turning, such as caused by turbulence, stop. Airliners may take a couple of minutes for a single oscillation.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

RELATED Pure power: The worlds largest aircraft engine manufacturers General Electric uses a Boeing 747-400 registered N747GF, a 30-year-old airframe originally delivered to Japan Airlines in 1994. N747GE was acquired by the company in 1992, taking it directly from the fleet of iconic airline Pan Am.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

How an aircraft handles Dutch roll depends on its dynamic stability. The aircraft’s design influences its dynamic stability. The trigger can be any external force such as a wind gust or turbulence. To understand the aircraft’s response to a disturbance, you need to understand aerodynamic stability.

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

An airline pilot was incapacitated immediately upon takeoff of an airliner from the airport. And possible out of nowhere, we may encounter teeth-chattering clear air turbulence. ” You can almost hear the drumbeat behind those lyrics by Lennon and McCartney. And yet it was! followed swiftly. The news was rather sad.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

On the 3rd of March 2023, a passenger in a private jet died after severe injuries in the cabin, which were originally reported as caused by severe turbulence. Incidents of severe turbulence are becoming more common, often leading to injury. There was no turbulence. This accident stood out as fatalities are very rare.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, there can be little doubt that, over the course of the year, airline safety has continued to reach new levels, with fewer accidents, fewer aircraft being written off, and fewer fatalities. This list is not exhaustive, however.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

But it never hurts to know which are ranked as the safest low-cost airlines for that extra bit of confidence. The market share of the low-cost airline is growing. Globally, low-cost carriers represent 40% of airline capacity, although they are more prevalent in some markets than others.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. Somewhere over Pennsylvania a Cessna 208B Caravan with two pilots and the three passengers [was] going to a business meeting in the float-equipped airplane when they encountered clouds and turbulence.

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