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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. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold. Small landing behind a Heavy 6 miles of separation.

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Experiencing Air France Airbus A220-300 (Part 2: CDG-BCN)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

After a smooth climb towards our assigned flight level and direction, the friendlier cabin crew (compared to my previous flight) came around to start the service and once again we were given a snack and a choice of beverage. At this point, we reached the threshold of the runway. Look at how lovely the weather was that morning.

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Flying Home With Singapore Airlines A350-900 (BCN-MXP-SIN)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

The meal selection for the MXP-SIN sector (Breakfast and Lunch) You can request from the cabin crew for one of the snacks available anytime during the flight. Do take note As I have covered this 3-class A350-900 in my previous SQ trip report, I won't go too much into details with this aircraft's cabin products.

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CRJ 200 ferry flight crash with 19 on board at Kathmandu

Fear of Landing

The crew initiated start up of both engines and they began to taxi, doing the control surface checks along the way. They entered runway 02 and performed a backtrack to the threshold in order to use the full length of the runway. At exactly 11:10 local time, the crew called from runway 02 that they were ready for departure.

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Ryanair Boeing 737 emergency evacuation in Italy following engine fire: video 

Aerotime

Everyone onboard a recent Ryanair flight was forced to evacuate when the cabin crew noticed fire emanating from one of the aircraft’s two engines as it began its take-off roll at an airport in Italy. All passengers and crew made it off the aircraft safely with no apparent injuries, having exited using the emergency slides.

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Eyes on the skies: CAE trains Canada’s air traffic controllers of tomorrow  

Aerotime

The forecast initially focused on pilots, maintenance technicians, and cabin crew.  However, all those students qualifying through CAE will encounter the same curriculum, level of standards, and threshold testing as students trained at NAV CANADA.   million aviation professionals by 2030.

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Comment: Is Brexit baggage burdening our airlines?

Aviation Bussiness News

Skilled Worker sponsorship remains the most common route into permanent UK employment from overseas, but updates to salary rates and rises in salary thresholds under the regime create new impediments to this recruitment option. For cabin crew, even though the job code generally now has a minimum salary requirement of £30,960 based on a 37.5