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. The flying condition towards Barcelona was nice and there was hardly any turbulence on this flight.

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Runway Weather Narrow-Body Aircraft Descent 59

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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VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

Back in the early days of jet airliners, pilots long experienced in more forgiving two- and four-engine, piston-powered prop planes found themselves running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas on the final approach to landing. Several of these unstabilized approaches resulted in major aircraft damage or worse. So, what happened?

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Stability Approach Runway Pilot 92

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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Airlines Airline Weather Turbulence 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

Taipei to Hong route has a lot of flights and the airline deploys both 787 series but there are 2 issues, the flight time is too short and also aircraft change happens very frequently so with this route ended up being ruled out, my next option was a flight from Tokyo to Taipei. I suppose the airline rotate these aircraft every few months.

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Weather Threshold Cabin Crew Turbulence 59

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Introduction I always rated this airline very highly especially after reading trip reports on them and when they announced the merger between this airline and Air India, I had to book and fly with this airline before they disappear from our skies. Your airline may be disappearing but you will always be part of our memories.

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Weather Runway Cabin Crew Descent 59

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 20, 2024

Currently this airport is a hub for Air China, China Cargo Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, DHL Aviation, FedEx, Juneyao Air, Shanghai Airlines, Spring Airlines, Suparna Airlines and UPS Airlines. One of the airline's check-in area. The view outside the terminal.

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Runway Descent Airlines Airline 59