Aerotime

JANUARY 27, 2025

The pilots reportedly spotted a flock of birds while approaching the runway at 08:58:56 local time. The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) failed to capture the final moments of the flight, stopping at 08:58:50 local time. The empennage flipped and fell beyond the embankment, partially burning.

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Runway Knot Cockpit Approach 277

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The aircraft turned around and headed back eastwards, crossing the US coastline near Long Beach and making a downwind left-hand approach back into the airport. After landing the crew advised they no longer had a live smoke condition on board, and that there had not been any smoke indication warning in the aircraft cockpit.

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Cabin Crew Runway Cockpit Approach 251

Aerotime

MARCH 19, 2025

After speaking with the Southwest flight crew, NTSB investigators established that as they continued their authorized approach both the captain, who was flying, and the first officer noted seeing a general aviation aircraft taxiing on a surface perpendicular to their runway and assumed it would be holding short of runway 31C.

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Runway Pilot Approach Clearance 164

Aerotime

JUNE 8, 2025

It was one of the pioneering carriers to commit to ambitious net zero targets and later demonstrated remarkable transparency by publicly acknowledging the need to recalibrate its approach. We’ll probably do some modernization of the cockpit, etc., A holistic approach to sustainability “We are looking at some [carbon] removals.

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Payload Cargo Approach Cockpit 226

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Deciding between a traditional round-dial cockpit and a modern glass cockpit can be a big deal for some pilots. Round-dials teach you hands-on skills, while glass cockpits use fancy technology to help you see what’s going on around you. Learning these differences will help you pick the right kind of cockpit for you.

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Cockpit Pilot Weather Primary Flight Display 52

Simple Flying

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Airbus A330neo s cockpit is designed with practicality and pilot familiarity in mind, drawing heavily from the Airbus A350. This approach enhances the transition for pilots trained on various Airbus models while integrating modern technology for improved safety and efficiency.

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Cockpit Approach Pilot 111

Flying Magazine

MAY 7, 2025

According to the agency, pilots on approach to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (KSEA) and Spokane International Airport (KGEG) have reported a marked increase in the number of laser incidents. When an aircraft is targeted by lasers, the cockpit is filled with a blinding light which can incapacitate pilots and compromise the landing.

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Cockpit Approach Pilot 109

Aerotime

JUNE 10, 2024

An Austrian Airlines Airbus A320-200 aircraft sustained severe damage during a hailstorm on its approach to Vienna Airport (VIE). The cockpit windshield also showed extensive damage, with multiple impacts throughout. Austrian Airlines A320 severely damaged by a hailstorm while on approach to Vienna Airport in Austria.

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Turbulence Airlines Airline Approach 289

iPad Pilot News

MAY 27, 2025

What to Do When Your iPad Gets Too Hot (or Too Cold) in the Cockpit iPad Pilot News As summer temperatures rise, so does the risk of your iPad shutting down in the middle of a flight. Whether youre funning a checklist or briefing an approach on ForeFlight, an overheating iPad can go from a minor annoyance to a serious problem fast.

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Cockpit Weather Pilot Approach 52

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 11, 2025

On the one hand, its a major setback, though on the other hand, its also a major clue Jeju Air 737 black box stopped recording before crash Airliners have black boxes, as theyre called (despite not being black), which contain flight data and cockpit voice recorders. This is incredibly rare, so thats quite a twist in the investigation.

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Air Traffic Control Cockpit Runway Pilot 112

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

According to witness statements given to the NTSB, “the airplane made a normal approach to the runway, and when it was over the end of the runway, it leveled off about 50 [feet] above the runway and flew straight down the runway for several hundred feet. The Accident Around 11:30 a.m. The elevator was intact and remained attached.

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Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Airplanes 122

Flying Magazine

JUNE 11, 2025

The American Airlines flight was approaching Reagan National when it collided with a U.S. In March, collision warnings sounded in the cockpit of a Delta Air Lines flight after a brush with a U.S. It has already released a preliminary report on the D.C. Army Black Hawk helicopter on a nighttime training mission.

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Cockpit Approach Jet Airplanes 107

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Just in the months leading up to the investigation being opened, we saw a scary go around in Hawaii , a dangerously low approach in Oklahoma City , an inflight Dutch roll , taking off from a closed runway , and a dangerously low approach in Tampa. What do you make of the FAA concluding its Southwest safety audit?

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Airlines Airline Approach Pilot 113

One Mile at a Time

JANUARY 6, 2025

Let me emphasize that NetJets operates flights with two pilots in the cockpit, and its a reputable company, with many career pilots. In this particular incident, a NetJets aircraft with the callsign Execjet 636 was on approach to runway 24 at Teterboro Airport (TEB), but the pilots couldnt seem to follow the (very basic) instructions.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Approach Clearance 116

Jetwhine

APRIL 2, 2025

During an instrument approach or on a standard terminal arrival route (STAR), autothrottles relieve the pilot of the throttle-jockeying work during required speed changes. If the autothrottles are switched off or become inoperative, the flying pilot can easily revert to flying the aircraft by adjusting the throttles manually.

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Cockpit Thrust Airplanes General Aviation 52

Flying Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

I double-checked my autopilot and looked down at my sim cockpit to verify the pitot heat was on. As I double-checked ForeFlight to load the approach plate on my iPad, which I had paired to the simulator cockpit, the radio crackled with the Boston Center VATSIM controller. Cape Air 73-31, you’re 40 miles south of Portland.

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Air Traffic Control Approach Weather Descent 94

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

While it may be common to find some very spartan instrumentation on an open cockpit biplane at the local fly-in, the level of complexity increases exponentially in turboprops and jet cockpits. Technically, even a cockpit lighting rheostat qualifies as avionics, but pilots typically associate the term with advanced technology.

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Cockpit Weight-Shift-Control Flight Deck Instrument Meteorological Conditions 40

Aerotime

JULY 18, 2024

“However, in the absence of cockpit indications and other cues that would suggest the aircraft’s flyability was compromised, the take-off continued normally with normal gear retraction,” the report added. The crew dumped fuel and made a PAN-PAN call, before the aircraft made an ILS approach back to runway 25R.

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Pilot in Command Runway Cockpit Cargo 273

Flying Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

minutes and achieved stable approach to Runway 19R at 1,710 feet. This one is for an unstable approach due to an excessive descent rate (1,232 ft/min). degree glideslope, high density altitude, and an approach speed of 150 knots, all of which put our nominal descent rate very close to the book maximum of 1,000 ft/min.

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Pilot Knot Gross Weight Runway 110

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Key modifications include A fuselage extension of approximately one meter, Reprofiled wingtips for improved aerodynamics, Replacement of the original radial engines with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A turboprops, Five-blade Hartzell propellers, and A modern glass cockpit.

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Final Approach Cockpit Approach Pilot 116

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Consider the following accident report, a representative one picked mostly at random, which recounts how the pilot of an A36 Bonanza got behind the airplane, lost situational awareness, and ultimately crashed on an RNAV approach. These categories apply whether youre flying a Cub on a summer evening or a business jet on an RNAV approach.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Approach Airplanes 95

Flying Magazine

JUNE 4, 2025

The exhibition hall will be a showcase of cutting-edge hardware and peripherals, motion platforms, virtual reality, and home cockpit components. Attendees are encouraged to book these free and paid options promptly, as space is limited, and some deadlines are approaching soon.

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Cockpit Air Traffic Control Pilot Approach 99

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

You then execute a 180 o descending Final Turn maintaining 175 knots to arrive wings-level one mile from the threshold on final approach at 500 AGL. At that point, you slow to the final approach speed of 155 knots, which is held until crossing the approach-end overrun where you reduce power to touch down at 130 knots.

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Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 14, 2025

Three PBY-5A Catalinas of Patrol Squadron VP-73 approaching Reykjavk, Iceland, 23 Mar 1942. Behind the cockpit lies the radio operators station, an essential role for communications and monitoring potential enemy transmissions during maritime patrol missions. It was pressed into service right away, joining VP-73 as aircraft number 9.

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Cockpit Rudder Approach Pilot 119

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 9, 2025

But the reality is that, aside from the bronze green cockpit, wartime B-17s had bare metal interiors. By taking this approach, Lucky Thirteen may be a Frankenstein amalgamation, but she will include actual veteran components. A similar approach was used for the housing assembly of the Type A-1 Upper Turret. Almost all.

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Hangar Stability Approach Cockpit 111

Aerotime

AUGUST 2, 2024

According to EASA, “ground assistance, advanced cockpit design with workload alleviation means [and] pilot incapacitation detection” would be used to compensate for one less pilot during cruise flight. They offer a more comfortable path via which passengers can adapt to the notion of single pilot operations: the softly-softly approach.

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Pilot Cockpit Flight Deck Cargo 330

Flying Magazine

MAY 17, 2025

Arithmetic skills sometimes atrophy in the cockpit. On final approach, the tower told him to go around. It might be challenging to detect a weakened electrical system from the cockpit, stressing that it is important to monitor all the gauges. The result was an uneventful approach and landing.

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Pilot Runway Gross Weight Approach 110

Aerotime

APRIL 29, 2024

Operated by one of the carrier’s 19-strong fleet of Boeing 747-8 widebodies as Lufthansa flight LH456, the aircraft made a standard approach to runway 24R at around midday on the day of operation. The video which has so far been watched over 1.6 It departed LAX at 16:06 local time and landed in Frankfurt at 11:14 the following morning.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Threshold Descent 281

Flying Magazine

MAY 26, 2025

Even if you have a datalink weather capability in the cockpit, dont give up on your air traffic controllers. The good news is that some approach controllers are armed with near real-time weather data from two additional sources to include the Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) and Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR). Not too shabby.

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Weather Wind Shear Pilot Air Traffic Control 77

Aerotime

JUNE 7, 2024

Collaborate with aircraft and avionics manufacturers to develop a system that would alert flight crews of traffic on a runway or taxiway and traffic on approach to land, and require that both newly manufactured and existing transport category airplanes have such a system installed. More of the audio is now available via @liveatc.

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Airplanes 274

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In fact, APC evolved from Andy’s belief that a new approach to pilot training and recruitment was required, one where they worked as a single entity and inefficiencies between training competencies and airline requirements were avoided.

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Pilot Airlines Airline Approach 271

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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Cockpit Lift Air Traffic Control Hangar 119

Air Facts

APRIL 14, 2025

1] NASA provides this excellent but unavoidably long definition: At NASA, systems engineering is defined as a methodical, multi-disciplinary approach for the design, realization, technical management, operations, and retirement of a system. An historical antecedent is the concept of the unstable approach.

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Final Approach General Aviation Approach Wind Shear 90

Aerotime

JANUARY 14, 2025

The new campaign, launched on January 13, 2025, intends to showcase various aspects of the airlines Belgitude by adopting a cross-media campaign approach. Were happy to underline this Belgitude both to make Belgians feel at home when flying with us, but also to make our international passengers eager to discover our country, Moriaux added.

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Airlines Airline Cabin Crew Cockpit 292

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

TSB Approach sequence Due to reported wind gusts as the CRJ900 approached Toronto Pearson following a flight from MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) the aircraft was flown at 149 knots. The aircraft was slightly below the glide slope, but on the visual segment of the approach and tracking the runway centerline.

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Indicated Airspeed Descent Knot Horizontal Stabilizer 241

Aerotime

JUNE 5, 2024

In adopting a holistic technological approach to recruitment and training, the Airline Pilot Club (APC) is transforming how airlines discover and train the pilots of tomorrow, ensuring a consistent supply of well-prepared, highly skilled pilots ready to meet the demands of the aviation industry.

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Pilot Airlines Airline Approach 281

Flying Magazine

MAY 8, 2025

A few months ago, I completed a set of upgrades to my home flight simulator cockpit that I chronicled in FLYING issues 952 and 953 titled Build Your Best Sim (Parts 1 and 2). Together we reviewed the approach plate, with my instructor highlighting important details on screen.

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Cockpit Pilot Air Traffic Control Approach 71