Aerotime
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The adoption of Honeywells latest cockpit technologies will help Avianca improve operational efficiencies and maximize situational awareness for its pilots. IntuVue RDR-4000 3D Weather Radar System is the first automatic, commercial radar to accurately depict weather in the flight path of an airplane.
Aerotime
APRIL 3, 2025
Nowadays, modern aircraft are equipped with systems that can not only fly the aircraft but can also perform fully automated take-offs and landings and can even provide protection systems in the event of unusual flight situations that threaten the safety of the airplane and its occupants.
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Aerotime
JUNE 19, 2025
On June 18, 2025, the NTSB issued an urgent safety recommendation over fears that smoke could enter the cockpit or cabin of aircraft equipped with LEAP-1B engines. It added: “Such a condition can allow smoke from hot oil to enter the ventilation system and ultimately the cockpit or passenger cabin.”
Plane and Pilot
MAY 31, 2025
While some wreckage was recovered within days, it took nearly two years to retrieve the flight and cockpit voice recorders from the ocean floor. However, one fact remains: the airplane was fully intact and flyable, with the sole exception of the single pitot malfunction. Its a common risk for the working CFI.
Flight Training Central
MAY 14, 2025
The flight deck of every airplane includes a collection of flight instruments that display important information, like airspeed, altitude, heading and turn information. In this video we’ll go over the standard 6 instruments you’ll find in a Cessna 172 and how to interpret their indications.
Aerotime
MARCH 28, 2025
The airplane wasnt uncontrollable at this point, and was flying fairly stable at altitude, so the decision was made to continue on their route, burn more fuel, and divert to LAX. That nut was never intended to support the loads generated by the airplane, and so grew weaker and weaker as the flight went on. You got it?
One Mile at a Time
JULY 13, 2025
As an avgeek, there aren’t many places that are cooler to see than the cockpit of a big jet. In this post, I want to address a question I see every so often — can you still visit the cockpit when flying on an airline? Do airlines allow airplane cockpit visits? Airline cockpits are pretty cool places!
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