Ask Captain Lim
JULY 13, 2025
Pre-Flight Routine A pilot’s day begins long before take-off. Depending on the flight schedule, they might start in the early hours of the morning or late at night. At the same time, they coordinate with cabin crew, dispatchers and engineers to confirm all systems are in order. This is for safety and security reasons.
Aerotime
JANUARY 30, 2025
According to Boeing, over the next two decades there will be a need for 674,000 new pilots, 716,000 new maintenance technicians, and 980,000 new cabin crews worldwide respectively to the current global commercial fleet. AI provides spotters with data on weather and flight plans and general conditions.
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Pilot Institute
APRIL 4, 2025
When creating a flight plan, you’ll be doing distances, speeds, times en route, and fuel burn. You’ll have to figure out how to create a flight plan through different time zones, particularly for extended cross-country flights. Math in Flying What type of math will you actually be doing?
Pilot Institute
MARCH 6, 2025
The ASRS captures these reports, analyzes the safety data, and distributes information to the aviation community to avoid the recurrence of such incidents It is a confidential system that accepts submissions from pilots, air traffic controllers, technicians, cabin crew, and drone pilots.
Pilot Institute
MAY 26, 2025
Handling CAT in Flight While CAT may seem intimidating and perhaps even impossible to avoid, ensuring your survival is entirely within your power. Preparation and Flight Planning Everything starts with good preparation. Go through a detailed weather briefing before every flight. Which weather tools can you use?
Fear of Landing
JULY 25, 2025
There was no cabin crew on board, despite the presence of 16 passengers, including a child. Even if we accept that, however, it does not explain why family members were on board, including a small child, the improperly loaded cargo or why the flight was operated without cabin crew.
Aerotime
OCTOBER 10, 2024
In advance of the long-awaited arrival of its first Airbus A350-900, Emirates has been revealing the efforts it has gone to over recent months to prepare its pilots and cabin crews for the arrival of the new widebody fleet. These suites include three full-motion flight simulators integrated with innovative pilot support systems (PSS).
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