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Aer Lingus Regional ATR72 suffers nose gear collapse after heaving landing

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The flight had two pilots onboard accompanied by two cabin crew. The aircraft descended and made its approach into the airport, touching down at 16:06 local time, 39 minutes after departure. There were no passengers onboard at the time of the occurrence.

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A Day in the Life of a Pilot

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The first step is reviewing the flight plan, a detailed document outlining the route, weather conditions, fuel requirements and potential alternate airports in case of emergency. Weather plays a crucial role. At the same time, they coordinate with cabin crew, dispatchers and engineers to confirm all systems are in order.

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Wingtip Vortices and Wake Turbulence

Pilot Institute

There have been numerous incidents of passengers and cabin crew suffering injuries ranging from mild to severe after their aircraft bounced around after getting caught in someone elses wake. Pilots need to keep this behavior in mind as theyre likely to encounter these vortices while theyre on approach or during departure.

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Is It Hard To Be A Pilot? – The Surprising Truth

Pilot Institute

One cross-country flight of 250 nautical miles, including three different instrument approaches at different airports. One cross-country flight of 250 nautical miles, including three different instrument approaches at different airports. Youll interact with passengers, air traffic controllers, cabin crew, and other pilots.

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Preflight Briefing and Postlfight Debriefing Guidance

Air Facts

BRIEFINGS become ever more important when either it is the first time a crew has flown together, or on that upcoming flight where there are significant/changing operational challenges such as weather, routing, runway closures and system outages. As an example, weather, NOTAMS and aircraft status might be assigned to the PM.

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Drone Lingo Simplified: Acronyms Every Pilot Needs To Know

Pilot Institute

Rather, it is affected by many factors, such as weather conditions and the presence of obstacles. Examples of information that can be communicated by an FSS include weather advisories, traffic advisories, navigational aids, or information from military bases or homeland security. BVLOS is not defined by any specific distance.

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Review: Aer Lingus Business Class Airbus A321XLR (MSP-DUB)

One Mile at a Time

The weather in Minneapolis was really bad, to the point that there was a tornado watch, and flights had to be stopped multiple times. Due to the weather, the inbound aircraft was delayed by around 30 minutes, so that also delayed our departure, since there’s not much ground time for this turn.