WayMan

JUNE 16, 2025

flight Instruments vs. Avionics An aircraft’s flight deck, with its collection of displays and controls, is a wonder of engineering. Two terms that are often heard are “flight instruments” and “avionics.” For a future pilot, a thorough knowledge of these systems is essential.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

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

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 9, 2025

I was looking forward to this flight, as it was my first time flying a Cathay Pacific narrow body aircraft. The A321neo is a fairly recent addition to Cathay Pacifics fleet, though over time itll become an increasingly popular aircraft for the airline. All-in-all, I had a phenomenal flight, given the short flight distance.

Narrow-Body Aircraft

Flying Magazine

MAY 8, 2025

READ MORE: Review: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Want to start flying airliners and learn their systems on your flight simulator? When it was time to start the flying part of the lesson, he took over live ATC duties, I called him for my clearance, and we reviewed the CRAFT acronym as he tidied up my inelegant readback.

Cockpit

Aviation Bussiness News

JUNE 23, 2025

These airlines will benefit from commonality, linked to crew training, maintenance, spare parts and tooling needs. That means less back-and-forth, less potential damages, and more advantages for clearances, which will result in quicker turnaround times and improved on-time flight schedules.

Cargo

One Mile at a Time

JULY 18, 2025

For the return portion of my trip across the Atlantic on the Airbus A321XLR , I flew Iberia’s Airbus A321XLR business class on the eight-hour flight from Madrid (MAD) to Washington (IAD). I was excited about this flight. For example, below was the view from my seat — as you can see, I couldn’t really see anyone.

Approach

One Mile at a Time

MAY 20, 2025

To kick off my Le Premier in the new La Premiere adventure , I flew Aviancas Airbus A320 business class (often simply marketed as Premium) on the 3hr5min flight from Miami (MIA) to Bogota (BOG). Its not quite what youd get on a long haul flight, but still, many other airlines dont even offer bedding on regional flights, so Ill take it!

Approach

Aerotime

JUNE 7, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that interruptions and multitasking led to distractions that resulted in a near-collision incident between a Delta Air Lines and American Airlines aircraft at John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) in New York earlier last year.

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For others, flying on a commercial airliner may be a once-a-year event when heading off on vacation. In the case of certain passengers, a flight may represent the first time they have ever been onboard an airplane, generating feelings of excitement and trepidation in equal measure about what may lie ahead.

Cabin Crew

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. Same idea, with digital signatures.

Flight Deck

Northstar VFR

MAY 26, 2024

Chair flying is a technique to practice your flying skills by either sitting in the airplane on the ground, using a simulator, or sitting in front of a poster of your flight deck. For this article, we will focus on using a flight deck, or cockpit, poster for chair flying at home. What do I need for chair flying?

Pilot

Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

This would work great for me as I would get the highly desired middle break during our 10 hour flight home. The Captain determined that I would be the pilot flying our MD-11 home that night After takeoff, we settled into our normal routine getting the oceanic clearance from Tokyo and heading out over the Pacific at 34,000 feet.

Flight Deck

Northstar VFR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

You will find student pilots, instructors, recreational pilots, and airline pilots use a kneeboard. Even the most basic kneeboard can be a huge help to a pilot for writing down clearances, ATIS information, or heading/altitude instructions. Managing resources and keeping the flight deck organized promotes safe and stress-free flying.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

His team developed the concept in the late 1970s to improve “interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision-making” in aircraft flight decks. CRM has gone on to become a staple of airline and military flight training. The term crew resource management is generally credited to NASA psychologist John Lauber.

Weather

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. Having them both in the same display reduces the pilot’s workload during the most demanding section of the flight. The CVS is available with the Pro Line Fusion flight deck.

Flight Deck

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 20, 2025

The airline still has the Airbus A319 (Similar capacity to the A220-300) probably because some of the A220 are grounded due to the engine issue and I believe once that is sorted out, the A319 will be retired. No prize for guessing which airline dominates this airport. The best thing about this flight?

Weather

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Flight Schedule Pro This free app enables students, renters and instructors to book new flights, manage upcoming appointments, and view aircraft availability right from the convenience of their iOS device. WSI PilotBrief Optima WSI is a leading provider of weather data and used by the majority of airlines.

Weather

Universal Weather

MARCH 29, 2024

A UK TCO certificate is a document that certifies that an airline from a non-European Union (EU) country meets the necessary safety standards and is authorized to operate flights into and out of the UK. Depending on the airport, there may be different clearance procedures and processes to consider.

Flight Plan

Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

And there were plenty of accidents; a few airliner crashes a month, while tragic, were not unheard of. It also led to the birth of cockpit resource management (CRM); a process designed to train crews to utilize all the flight deck’s human resources effectively. The question of course is why?

Flight Plan