Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They arent just a list of priorities in an emergency, they also neatly sum up the different roles a pilot must play, roles that used to be divided very specifically on the flight deck of an airliner. I concentrated as never before, and the airplane tracked true as the altimeter hand crawled upward. Then a strange thing happened.

Pilot in Command

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

Airliners may take a couple of minutes for a single oscillation. Notice the altimeter needle swing up and down gently, up to a few hundred feet. In 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123s tail section blew out from explosive decompression, cutting all the aircrafts hydraulic lines. That is, of course, if they feel it at all.

Stability

Fear of Landing

JANUARY 17, 2025

On the 29th of December 2024, a Boeing 737-800 operated by a low-cost South Korean airline crashed after an emergency landing and overshooting the runway at Muan International Airport in South Korea. So the 737 T/R uses radio altimeter to enable the reversers.

Thrust

Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The following is CCTV video of the crash as posted on X : New surveillance video captures the moment a Delta Airlines jet crashed at Toronto Pearson International Airport, with 75 passengers on board leaving 18 injured. Those of us who could get ourselves down did, and then helped others.

Runway

Pilot Institute

MAY 26, 2025

airline accidents between 2009 and 2018. Did you catch any sudden shifts in your airspeed indicator and altimeter? United Airlines Flight 826 (1997) It was nighttime on December 1997 when United Airlines Flight 826 took off from Tokyo’s Narita Airport. See any other odd instrument readings? Prepare for a bumpy ride.

Turbulence

Aerotime

JULY 30, 2025

The two aircraft collided over the Potomac River in Washington on January 29, 2025, as the PSA Airlines-operated flight, with 64 people onboard, was just half a mile away from landing at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). This will be followed by an overview of ‘DCA Class B Airspace and Helicopter Routes’.

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

JULY 31, 2025

On day one of the hearing a video animation showing the movements of the PSA Airlines aircraft and Black Hawk before the crash was played indicating that the helicopter flew above the 200 feet route altitude limit along a section of the Potomac River. Day two of the three-day NTSB hearing begins on July 31, 2025, in Washington DC.

Air Traffic Control

Plane and Pilot

JULY 28, 2025

It’s even said that he would climb uncharted mountains with multiple altimeters to record accurate elevation information. While his airway manuals were incredibly popular—and many airlines still use a modernized version —Jeppesen wasn’t willing to give up flying just yet. It wasn’t much by today’s standards, but it was something.

Altimeter

Simple Flying

JULY 23, 2024

On a foggy winter morning in February 2009, Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, using a Boeing 737-800, was on a seemingly routine final approach into Amsterdams Schiphol Airport when it suddenly stalled and fell out of the sky about a mile from the runway.

Altimeter

One Mile at a Time

JULY 20, 2024

Southwest Airlines can’t seem to stay out of the news lately when it comes to concerning safety incidents. Tampa’s altimeter is 30.14.” It seems like the most likely explanation here is that the pilots hadn’t set their altimeter correctly. So if you don’t have the altimeter set correctly, it will show the wrong altitude.

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Modern commercial airliners have complicated cabin air conditioning systems , as well as other electrical cabling and pipework that keep all the systems on the aircraft functioning. EQRoy / Shutterstock This is a regular source of passenger frustration on certain airlines. All of this hardware needs to be accommodated somewhere.

Cabin Crew

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 25, 2024

Every airline/operator must establish a Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP). A: ALTIMETER/PILOT STATIC INSPECTION (FAR 91.411) If flying under IFR, an aircraft’s static system, altimeter and automatic Mode C altitude-reporting system must be inspected within the preceding 24 calendar months.

Annual Inspection

iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Get the watch app here. Altimeter+ Display an altimeter flight instrument on your watch. Get the watch app here. Plane Finder This app is perfect for real-time tracking of airline flights and includes stats on arrival and departure information.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

When thinking of ways to display your mastery of flight, most of us dream about buttery-smooth landings, or maybe maneuvers flown so precisely that the altimeter needles might as well have been just painted on. As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

When thinking of ways to display your mastery of flight, most of us dream about buttery-smooth landings, or maybe maneuvers flown so precisely that the altimeter needles might as well have been just painted on. As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet.

Rudder

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. Procedures may differ on other aircraft and at other airlines. The Honeywell SI-800 Airspeed/Mach Indicator has been a standard instrument on the Boeing 737, 747, 757, and 767 for decades. Some terminology is modified for clarity.

Pitot Tube

AeroSavvy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A flight crew prepares a Boeing 767 for flight Every airline develops its own preflight procedures. Captain, first officer, and international relief officer preflight task assignments are different at every airline. Airlines are moving toward electronic maintenance logbooks. Every airline develops its own preflight flows.

Flight Deck

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Altimeter+ Calculates the altitude of your current location via GPS, or from the built-in barometer included on newer iPhones and iPads.Offers Apple Watch app. Flighty This app was designed with airline passengers in mind to help track flights using the latest iOS app display and notification features.

Weather

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

You’ll always find a steady stream of airliners queued up for departure and arrival. Due to its high elevation, Denver’s Class B airspace extends up to 12,000 feet MSL to give airliners room to descend. You don’t want an incorrect altimeter setting to cause an airspace incursion.

Clearance

AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Airline dispatchers read and speak fluent METAR. There are times when a METAR will indicate a takeoff or landing cannot be safely made. Pilots often “refresh” METARs when approaching an airport with poor weather to monitor trends and have the most current decision-making information available.

Weather

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

That attitude, making the most of the systems that remain, is the key to dealing with in-flight emergencies in jet airliners, military jets, and especially our piston-powered ma-chines down here in GA land. Just like the airline glass cockpits, this is called systems integration.

Cockpit

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

That big day finally arrives, and not being able to contain yourself for much longer, you decide to bite the bullet and fly down via the airlines. The only thing remaining now is to get all the funds put together and find a way out to retrieve your new “pride and joy.” That’s a big difference from standard isn’t it?

Density Altitude

Air Facts

JULY 19, 2024

Before you realized it, the altimeter had wound itself well past the initial ceiling you had mentally calculated in your preflight planning, and now you found yourself squarely inside Class B airspace – OUCH! What to do if you inadvertently fly into Class B airspace? Consider the NASA ASRS. It has proved a total success for many years.

Altimeter

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Lola was among the first female commercial pilots, breaking barriers in aviation when airliners were almost exclusively male territory. Lola went on to become a commercial airline transport pilot, flight instructor, SCUBA divemaster, and an award-winning author and photographer. I might as well chat with the altimeter.

Weather

AV Web

MAY 13, 2025

The senators concerns included several spectrums up for possible auction, including the upper C-Band, which is close to the frequencies used by aircraft radio altimeters. Current radio altimeters are not certified to operate with high-power emissions at such proximity on the spectrum. How long would such a process take?

Altimeter

Flying Magazine

JUNE 25, 2025

Bedford has been backed by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), National Air Transportation Association (NATA), Airports Council International, Regional Airline Association (RAA)—where he is a board member—and Airlines for America (A4A), which represents United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and other major U.S.

Flight Deck