Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

By now, it was dark and the weather in Gaithersburg had deteriorated with fog and low cloud ceilings. However, the METAR for their destination showed an overcast ceiling at 200 feet above ground level and fog. The controller confirmed a descent to 3,000 feet, the minimum safe altitude for BEGKA. It was now past midnight.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The aircraft also featured a pressurized cockpit, and considerations were made for it to be armed with six 20mm cannons or six 12.7mm machine guns.Consolidated-Vultee submitted the design of the Model 102 to the US Army Air Force’s Air Material Command in September 1943, and the Model 102 was approved for further development as the XP-81.

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Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

A spring switch in the cockpit controlled the turbocharger wastegate, to select whether the turbocharger was engaged or bypassed (or midrange). Recorded track data revealed that the pilot began a descent to the destination airport and crossed over the approach end of the runway on a heading perpendicular to the runway heading.

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Air Facts

JULY 1, 2024

After all the preliminaries, and in full command of the cockpit, we, my instructor and I, took off on a simulated flight from Teterboro, New Jersey enroute to Norfolk, Virginia (short flight) at 15,000 feet. I put the gear down one dot above the glideslope and let the drag bring the aircraft down at its 550 foot-per-minute descent rate.

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iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We’ve been flying with the Apple Watch since it first launched, and it’s become increasingly useful every year for both preflight weather checks and as an in-cockpit resource. It includes a GPS and compass for backup navigation and a bright sunlight readable screen for easy viewing in the cockpit.

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Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

B747-8i, B737, MD11 Contributing Writer AI-powered system could be trained to assist in the cockpit and even land the plane in extreme emergencies, such as pilot incapacitation. As type rated pilots are envisioned as GPs, the ground-based cockpit will most likely look like the real deal minus oxygen masks. Y oure alone.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. I’ve been a lucky man, indeed.

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

My son Toby was complaining about a whistling sound from our right cockpit door, and when established in the cruise, the first miles into the Atlantic Ocean, he saw that there was a gap between the door and the airplane fuselage, creating that sound and letting cold air in. after DEVBI with Iceland Radio. So perfect weather.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 23, 2025

The approach to Runway 28R has a minimum descent altitude of 673 feet above mean sea level, which is 250 feet above ground level. The closest stations warned of half-mile visibility, below the minimum for Montgomery Field, and 200-foot ceilings. The NTSB is currently still searching for the cockpit voice recorder. kilometres).

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I checked the weather by phone and was assured it would be great CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) with 2-3-knot winds from 090 degrees. I reached into the cockpit instantly and pulled the throttle to idle. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. The engine sprang to life.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The aircraft performed well at a high speed with stable cruise and descent however, during the second flight, some issues surfaced with the longitudinal stability during the climb. Fuselage The fuselage had two main bulkheads, with the cockpit at the front. The control column and cockpit glazing is visible in the central background.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway. I glanced over my shoulder to see our loadmaster scramble up the cargo bay’s side panels, then cling to the ceiling, barely clear of slashing horns. Descent check!” Photo via USAF Airchives “ Yiiieee!

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. After squeezing through the landing gear houses I settled into the right seat for our evaluation flights because frankly, this is a complex airplane with a complex cockpit.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

When he attempted to contact the tower again, he discovered that the antenna on his primary radio was gone, having iced over during his descent through the overcast and snapped off. Soon after emerging from the cockpit, Lt. However, when Kidder broke through the clouds at 1,500 feet, all he could see was freezing water below him.

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