Airplanes Cockpit Flight Deck 
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.”
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.
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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!
One Mile at a Time
JULY 14, 2025
pic.twitter.com/ch5mcBbjJp — Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) July 14, 2025 In the cockpit voice recorder, one of the pilots was “heard asking the other why did he cutoff,” and “the other pilot responded that he did not do so.” The mechanical nature of how the engine fuel CUTOFF switches work in Boeing 787.
Air Facts
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Thats especially true for instrument pilots, where Air Traffic Control sounds like they are running the show, the avionics seem to direct the flight along predefined routes, and the autopilot actually flies the airplane. Consider the amazing picture below, taken on the flight deck of a Boeing 314 flying boat over 80 years ago.
Cranky Flier
MAY 16, 2025
Qatar Places Order for All the Airplanes Qatar Airways announced the details of a huge order from Boeing. The biggest and brightest order of airplanes anyone has ever seen. An order of airplanes so big you have to step back to appreciate it. FAA which requires it during flight — for reasons just like this.
Vintage Aviation News
APRIL 24, 2025
Soon, the Hellcat weighing over 12,500 lbs began to sink rapidly, and Thomas could not escape the cockpit until the aircraft was underwater, likely when the water pressure holding his canopy shut equalized with the water in the cockpit. We hovered over the plane and could look directly into the open cockpit. ” U.S.
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