Inflight Pilot Training

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The industry is stabilizing, and while hiring has slowed from its recent peak, it is far from disappearing. Many airlines have scaled back hiring as a precautionary measure to ensure financial stability. Its important to recognize that this is not a bad hiring market its simply not the hiring frenzy weve seen over the last three years.

Pilot

Aerotime

MARCH 3, 2025

It cited the crash of JAL 516 at Haneda Airport (HND) as an example of where crew training and procedural accuracy prevented an incident from becoming a disaster. But since 1971, the airline operated without a single fatality, until in 2000 a failure of part of the horizontal stabilizer on an MD-80 caused a crash that claimed 88 lives.

Airlines

Pilot Institute

MAY 26, 2025

First of all, the sudden and quick movements can affect crew performance and the stability of your aircraft. You should also consider how this force affects your passengers and crew. Then, using the Passenger Address system, announce to the cabin requesting passengers and crew to fasten their seatbelts immediately.

Turbulence

Simple Flying

JUNE 6, 2024

Have you ever faced a situation where a cabin crew asked you to change your seat and move forward or aft of the aircraft? While not too common, cabin crew may ask some passenger(s) to move their seats to maintain the required stability. Have you heard of such a situation from someone?

Cabin Crew

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In the previous installment of this two-part article , AeroTime took you through the initial stages of a routine commercial flight, from the pre-departure checks carried out by the pilots and cabin crew, to what is happening outside the aircraft, and from engine startup to taxi and take-off.

Cabin Crew

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Before departure Once you are onboard and safely seated, there will already be a rush of activity going on in the cabin around you. With all ground personnel off the aircraft, you will hear the familiar call over the aircraft’s public address (PA) system: “ Crew, arm the doors and cross-check ”.

Cabin Crew

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2024

You can choose from programs like: Aviation Mechanic Air Traffic Controller Aviation Welder Cabin Crew Want to develop practical skills while getting your certificate? It gives you long-term stability, so you’ll have a fallback option in aviation or another field if you decide to step away from flying.

Pilot

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

Once on board, I noticed a cabin crew was serving champagne on a plastic cup and was pleasantly surprised I was given one, I suppose because of the occasion (New Year's Day). These GE Leap-1A engines took a while longer than the older generation engine to stabilize and once they were good, we were on our way. That's a good idea!

Airlines

Aerotime

MAY 30, 2025

Renato spent 15 years as Senior Cabin Crew in the Middle East and has a lifelong passion for aviation history. Its stability and long-range capability made it ideal for crossing oceans. And in 1933, it dazzled the world when Italian Air Minister Italo Balbo led a fleet of 24 S.55s

Cabin Crew

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Alain Durand / Wikimedia Commons At 15:42, the flight engineer was dispatched from the flight deck to perform an inspection at the back of the cabin. Upon his return, he reported that both right-hand and left-hand rear stabilizers had sustained damage.

Runway

AV Web

JUNE 15, 2025

When a passenger suffers a heart attack, stroke, or other life- threatening condition, the flight crew coordinates a response. This split of crew duties would not be possible in a single-pilot environment. The two-pilot system ensures that the second pilot can take control, stabilize the situation, and safely land the aircraft.

Flight Deck