Flying Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

My airline uses it both internally and as a pilot-facing app on our iPad EFBs. Participating airlines equip their aircraft with quick access recorders to harvest and regularly uplink detailed flight data. I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8 carriers over the last several decades.

Pilot 111

Pilot Knot Gross Weight Runway 111

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2025

Just some panels sliding closed – working similarly to modern flaps and slats on every commercial airliner. This increases to 815kg (1,800 lbs) if flying purely in conventional flight mode, using runways to take off and land.The maximum gross weight of the aircraft is stated as 2,500kg (5,500 lbs).

Gross Weight 262

Gross Weight Stability Payload Thrust 262

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 56

Descent Final Approach Approach Wind Shear 56

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

On the 9th of July 2024, flight LA8073, operated by the Chilean airline LATAM, departed from Milano Malpensa for a passenger flight to São Paulo, Brazil. The load controller also verifies whether all planned passengers are accounted for and receives the final baggage and cargo weights from the airline staff.

Tail 97

Tail V Speed Knot Runway 97

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Six Brave Souls Air Facts Journal During the spring of 1977, I was a pilot for Skyway Airlines based at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Skyway was a small commuter airline that operated a fleet of seven airplanes, including one DC-3. Since we were now at our maximum gross weight, a full power takeoff was mandatory.

Gross Weight 89

Gross Weight Airplanes Flight Deck Runway 89

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

Likewise, a 50-knot headwind can make the miles slow and days very long. Way Back When The first time we rode on an airliner, in 1943, they didn’t go very fast, nor were they air-conditioned or pressurized. Riding the airlines then wasn’t so very different from rolling your own.

Weather 90

Weather Airplanes Jet Gross Weight 90