Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2025

I wrote out my expected clearance for the outbound leg, briefed every approach, and walked through all the what-ifs I could imagine. I picked up my clearance, flew the plane, shot the approach, and feltbrieflylike I might just be the worlds newest ace. The cockpit is no place for shame. They stack up quickly. A polite Say again?

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Clearance Cockpit Approach Pilot 61

Pilot Institute

MAY 8, 2025

ACARS can replace tasks such as pre-departure and oceanic clearances, send position reports, and grab weather data for you. Before long, everything from oceanic clearance requests to in-flight weather updates could flow through ACARS. Complex airspace around busy airports adds to the length of the departure clearance radio call.

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Clearance Weather Air Traffic Control Pilot 52

iPad Pilot News

MAY 23, 2025

Each year we publish a plain-language review of the FARs and Advisory Circulars pertaining to the use of iPads and electronic flight bags in the cockpit. Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots2025 edition iPad Pilot News The best reading is in some Advisory Circulars from the FAA. The AC “is intended only to provide clarity.”

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Pilot Federal Aviation Regulations Cockpit Weather 90

AV Web

APRIL 8, 2025

Types of Runway Incursions An incursion results when a pilot crosses a runway-hold marking, takes off, or lands, without clearance. A vehicle deviation occurs if it crosses a runway-hold marking without ATC clearance. The most common incursion is failing to hold short of an assigned clearance limit, especially a runway hold marking.

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Runway Clearance Approach Pilot 52

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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Fear of Landing

APRIL 18, 2025

The cockpit voice recorder began recording. Once the de-icing was completed, the engineer left the cockpit to inspect the aircraft and collect the de-icing certificate. Once they’d received clearance to start the engines, he began running through the BEFORE START checklist with the captain. Remember the pneumatic system?

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Weight-Shift-Control Cargo Clearance Cockpit 75

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

At this point, the pilots will contact ATC for push and start clearance , allowing the plane to be pushed back from its parking position (if applicable, depending on the airport) and to start its engines in sequence. This itself is attached to a thick metal pin, known in the industry as a gear pin or nose gear ground lock.

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Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the cockpit of a modern GA airplane, there is probably only one person to do all of these jobsyou! Aviate, navigate, communicate To be an effective captain in a digital cockpit, you need to understand aviate, navigate, communicate beyond its classic meaning. George works for you.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Approach Airplanes 95

iPad Pilot News

MAY 30, 2025

Product Report: Flight Gear Executive KneeboardA Sleek Upgrade for the Modern Cockpit iPad Pilot News If your old kneeboard feels more like a clunky clipboard than a cockpit companion, it might be time for an upgrade. But it’s more than just eye-catchingits also highly functional. from Sportys.com.

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Cockpit Flight Deck Turbulence Clearance 52

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). I shared my primary display with him over Zoom so that he could see exactly what I was doing in my cockpit.

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Cockpit Pilot Air Traffic Control Approach 71

Air Facts

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In 2017, I got hired to be the personal pilot for a family in Pennsylvania flying their high-tech, all glass cockpit $5m, Pilatus PC-12NG single engine turboprop. I got hired to be the personal pilot on an all glass cockpit $5m, Pilatus PC-12NG. Ill get our clearance on my hearing aid. Now fast forward to 2024.

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Clearance Airplanes Annual Inspection Pilot 96

Air Facts

APRIL 28, 2025

The crew helped Wayne into the front cockpit and I got in the rear. Much to our surprise though, they held a couple of big jets for us and gave us a taxi clearance right to the end of the runway and an almost immediate takeoff clearance. Atlanta certainly deserves its title as the worlds busiest airport.

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Clearance Air Traffic Control Hangar Runway 78

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

For VFR pilots beginning instrument training, the cockpit gets crowded fast. Every phase of flight has a checklist, clearance, frequency change, routing amendment, weather check, or procedure review. A typical IFR flight might begin with a clearance to copy prior to takeoff. The clearance was amended just before top of descent.

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Pilot NOTAMs Clearance Approach 104

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

As you step into the cockpit and start learning, you’ll quickly realize it’s about building good habits that make flying second nature. Key Takeaways Maintaining proper situational awareness inside and outside the cockpit is essential for flight safety. Sometimes, even a short break from the cockpit can affect your performance.

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Pilot Weather Altimeter Cockpit 52

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

The aircraft was equipped with a cockpit camera that captured the entire instrumentation for both the left and right seats, as well as the center pedestal and overhead panel. READ MORE: Pattern Operations Require the Right Technique The pilot was trying to fly by looking at the instrument on the other side of the cockpit, said Sedor.

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Cockpit Airplanes 68

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The controller anticipated a late landing clearance due to this aircraft in front. Immediately, the steward from the front galley burst into the cockpit – shaking with shock. By Michael Riley It’s the daily New York/London late show, a routine dark arrival at London in time for a pint at the Peggy Bedford. What could be simpler?

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 104

Air Facts

JUNE 4, 2025

With takeoff clearance from the tower, I pushed the throttle forward. The landing was smooth, and after shutting down on the ramp, I sat for a moment in the quiet cockpit. I filed my flight plan and headed out. Taxiing to Runway 06, I ran through the before-takeoff checklist: fuel selector both, flaps up, mixture rich, lights on.

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AV Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Furthermore, especially for cockpit crews, adequate rest is a vital issue to optimal performance. Just as Flight “123” on the left gets its clearance to push back from the gate, a flight attendant informs the captain that there is a lady in the aft lavatory who has collapsed and is unresponsive.

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Air Facts

MAY 20, 2024

The Captain determined that I would be the pilot flying our MD-11 home that night After takeoff, we settled into our normal routine getting the oceanic clearance from Tokyo and heading out over the Pacific at 34,000 feet. Arriving at the flight deck door, I performed the normal cockpit entry procedure but received no response.

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One Mile at a Time

JULY 20, 2024

ATC: “Southwest 425, roger, cancel approach clearance, go around runway 10. Just about all US airlines have more junior cockpits than they did before the pandemic, given how many new pilots have been hired. Then the conversation continued as follows: ATC: “Southwest 425, you plan to go around?”

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Air Traffic Control Altimeter Runway Weather 141

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Other important measures included agreeing to hire and train up to 3,000 new air traffic controllers; increasing the length of cockpit voice recordings to 25 hours (from two hours); and extending the time frame for airline passengers to redeem travel credits to at least five years.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Just under two months later, on December 20, 1957, Boeing’s chief test pilot “Tex” Johnston sat in the left-hand seat of N708PA’s cockpit, with copilot James R. Gannet in the right-hand seat and flight engineer Tom Layne at his station behind them in the cockpit as the plane stood ready at Renton.

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Weather Cockpit Cargo Payload 98

Fear of Landing

MAY 30, 2025

The controller cleared the aircraft to 23,000 feet cruising altitude and then, after the pilot read back the clearance, handed the pilot off to another controller at Atlanta Center. The Citation 560 was climbing through 26,600 feet as the pilot read back the clearance to 34,000 feet. It became clear that the person was incapacitated.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Among these tech tools are Air Traffic Controllers who provide ATC clearance as the pilot approaches the landing area. Holding Positions and Their Meanings Another thing to be aware of from the cockpit is the holding positions. Learn Taxiing Alongside Everything That Comes Before and After!

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Clearance Runway Air Traffic Control Pilot 52

iPad Pilot News

MAY 14, 2024

Each year we publish a plain-language review of the FARs and Advisory Circulars pertaining to the use of iPads and electronic flight bags in the cockpit. The short answer is that the iPad is absolutely a legal replacement for paper charts in the cockpit (at least for most Part 91 GA flying).

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Pilot Federal Aviation Regulations Cockpit Weather 105

Professional Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

The InSight Display System brings a glass cockpit experience and advanced navigation to modernize Hawker 800 series aircraft. of payload, enables LPV and RNP approaches down to 0.3nm to expand the range of airports where precision approaches can be performed, and saves 15 minutes or more on a typical flight with CPDLC Departure Clearances.

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Payload Approach Clearance Cockpit 75

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2024

CRAFT is a simple way pilots remember their IFR clearance. Key Takeaways Use the acronym CRAFT as a helpful guide to break down your IFR clearance. Avoid the common mistakes in receiving your clearance by staying prepared and organized. Develop your own techniques alongside CRAFT and keep practicing to master IFR clearances.

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Clearance Pilot Transponder Flight Plan 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

With a variable-pitch propeller, the pilot can adjust the propeller’s pitch using a control in the cockpit. They did need lots of room below the engine to allow the big bucket door to swing backward, but that wasn’t much of a problem, given the small engines and ample clearance under the wing. What does this mean?

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The two most useful benefits have been ADS-B datalink weather and a real-time traffic display in the cockpit, delivered by the network of ADS-B ground stations in the U.S. Gone are the days of making an educated guess on a route, only to have ATC respond with a full route clearance with intersections and airways.

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AV Web

JULY 23, 2024

The aircraft, a successor to the Extra 330SC, features a wider cockpit, shorter fuselage, redesigned cowling, increased control stick clearance, and improved headroom compared to its predecessor. Extra Aircraft unveiled one of the first U.S.

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Northstar VFR

MAY 26, 2024

For this article, we will focus on using a flight deck, or cockpit, poster for chair flying at home. If you’re repeating the checklists and motions in front of your home cockpit between lessons, the movements and flows will become second nature. The end result is mastering your skills quicker, which will save you time and money.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. I filed IFR , mostly so that I could get the altitude I wanted without having to worry about cloud clearances, and so if some little squirt cumulus popped up, I could blast through it or just nick the side of it.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Use the CRAFT acronym to note down departure clearances quickly. You may be asking for a clearance or reporting your position. Departure Clearance The departure clearance is a special type of radio call. Large airports usually have a dedicated frequency called Clearance Delivery. Why Why are you calling?

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

During the conversation with the controller, there was the sound of a single chime on the cockpit voice recorder. The crew acknowledged and said that they were at the ideal point of descent and waiting for clearance. The approach controller instructed the crew to continue to wait for the descent clearance.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Pre-Flight Preparation Medical Certification: Obtaining the Necessary Medical Clearance Before flying a plane for the first time, you must obtain a medical certificate to confirm youre physically fit to fly. When flying a plane for the first time, this knowledge helps you make informed decisions in the cockpit.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

While the temptation to find cheaper gas at an uncontrolled field loomed large, the extra services provided by the approach control, clearance delivery, and a busier FBO seemed to make more sense. We divided up flying the aircraft, getting a divert clearance to an airport a bit farther east of the storms, and refiling our next leg.

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