Aerotime

APRIL 2, 2025

At 03:09:09 local time, the captain tried to contact the Vilnius Area control center (ACC) to report a descent into Vilnius but received no reply. After discussing the correct frequency with the co-pilot, the captain switched frequencies and successfully reached Vilnius at 03:10:11 local time, receiving clearance to descend.

Cargo

Air Facts

JUNE 4, 2025

With takeoff clearance from the tower, I pushed the throttle forward. I acknowledged and began a gentle descent. 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. The First Leg: Smooth Sailing The first leg was uneventfulin the best way.

Altimeter

Flying Magazine

JUNE 20, 2025

The controller cleared the pilot for the approach, and when the airplane was about 10 miles northeast of the NESTY, an initial approach fix (IAF), the controller asked the pilot if he was going to “make your descent” and asked if he would like vectors to the south. The pilot acknowledged the clearance.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 5, 2025

They were descending from cruise altitude to 8,000 feet with a clearance to fly direct to navigation fix TAMMI. Air traffic control, responding to the pilots odd transmission, simplified the clearance, issuing just a heading and an altitude. Among the wreckage pulled up from the depths was a cockpit video recorder.

Clearance

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. They received clearance for Montgomery’s RNAV 28R approach: a GPS-based precision approach with specific waypoints and altitudes which step the aircraft down to the runway. kilometres).

Approach

Fear of Landing

JULY 4, 2025

There was no cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder installed. CCTV footage showed the cockpit lights turn on and then the strobe lights started to flash. The footage showed the helicopter go dark as the strobe lights and the cockpit light were turned off again, again, likely the battery switch turned to off.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

Probable cause(s): The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from trees after takeoff, during high density altitude weather conditions. Glasair III Pahrump, Nevada/Injuries: None NTSB Report: WPR23LA272 According to the pilot, he detected the odor of fuel in the cockpit shortly after takeoff.

Density Altitude

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 9, 2025

Lavatory A relatively clean lavatory located behind the cockpit. Once our engines were started, we were given clearance to taxi and head towards the runway. However the weather at Osaka was very gloomy as we flew through some clouds and this is what we saw during our descent. One last look at my window seat.

Weather

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

I departed the Williamson-Sodus Airport solo at 8:00 am and picked up my instrument clearance in the air from a Rochester Approach controller with a familiar voice. When I reached the narrow passage to the cockpit, the metal surfaces on either side radiated enough heat to fry eggs. Geneva, NY and the north end of Seneca Lake.

Runway

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.

Cabin Crew

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

He lost 200 feet before even noticing the descent. 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.

Pilot

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.

Flight Deck

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.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Even though synthetic vision might help me perform an emergency descent to a valley that might not be cloud filled, that’s pretty sketchy as a risk-mitigation strategy. Also, from when I lived out West, there was the mountaintop clearance guideline—1,000 feet for every 10 knots of wind, with 30 knots meaning no-go.

Airplanes

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.

Cockpit

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

There were a few good bumps during take off and more of it during the descent especially flying through the clouds. Anyway, during the descent, there was quite a bit of bumps and that also includes a sudden downdraft that made me hold on to the seat in front of me, I dislike this feeling to be honest. A quick look at the cockpit.

Descent

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Radar returns showed that the aircraft was still slightly off of the runway centreline and based on ADS-B data shows the aircraft low on the approach: at about 875 feet above mean sea level before the sudden descent, so 225 feet above the runway elevation despite still being a few kilometres from the runway.

Runway

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

IFR clearance was direct to DEVBI while we knew we could pick up our oceanic clearance (my first ever !) After passing DEVBI, Scottish Control passed us to Reykjavik Control who told us to pick up our Oceanic Clearance with Iceland Radio on 127.850. after DEVBI with Iceland Radio. We kept at FL090 so icing was above us.

Weather

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.

NDB

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I contacted Rochester Approach, the controller came back with, "Are you looking for your clearance to College Park?" I answered in the affirmative, received my clearance, and was given a climb to 6,000 feet as the rain streaked over my windscreen. Shouldn't he have my full clearance? But no ice formed that morning.

Transponder

Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

In reality, FAA has broken its own “sterile cockpit” rule, and unless the mature and experienced voices in the room stand up for reason and the cold, hard rules of aviating, navigating, and communicating, the system will continue its “graveyard spiral” to the inevitable consequences. It’s not a social science laboratory. Andrew Maroney ATP.

Clearance

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

NRST: Descent Rate and Airport Finder Designed for pilots of any size aircraft, this app provides location-based information to guide you to the nearest airport should an unplanned deviation become necessary.Offers Apple Watch app.

Weather

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 27, 2024

Once we started our descent, the cabin crew appeared and at least they did their job by checking everyone is buckle up before they made their way to their seats. The cockpit view - my favourite. At this point we were waiting for clearance to depart. Lots of changes have taken place during this period, that's for sure.

Cabin Crew

Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

In the cockpit were three flight crew: two pilots and a flight engineer. The flight crew responded that they were starting the turn and requested clearance direct to Kansas City. The controller cleared the flight and said their descent clearance was being processed. The flight departed at 20:35 local time.

Cabin Crew

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Chipmunk continued to runway 24L where the pilot was given clearance to take off. This is not to do with the engine cowling but the shoulder harness in the cockpit. On Friday the 26th of April 2024, the pilot took the Chipmunk out for a pleasure flight from Jandakot Airport in Western Australia.

Runway

Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“Twenty years ago, Garmin redefined the general aviation cockpit with the G1000, our first integrated flight deck. Ten years later, we introduced the G3000, bringing the first touch screens to the light turbine cockpit, and revolutionary technologies like the award-winning Garmin Autoland.

Flight Deck

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

You can’t cancel IFR, because you won’t be able to maintain VFR cloud clearance requirements. Approval for a contact approach lets you make a legal, visual descent to land without fuss and while retaining your IFR status. Navigate to the Airport You may begin your descent once you’re cleared, un-less ATC instructed otherwise.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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. I’d like the cockpit modernized to make the systems a bit simpler and to group the controls a bit better. So what would I fix?

Airplanes

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The flight then began its descent into Vilnius and passed to the north of the city on a right-hand downwind approach for its landing on runway 19 at Vilnius Airport. However, while ATC had transmitted a landing clearance to the crew of BCS18D, no meaningful response was received.

Final Approach

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Upon completing his mission, Kidder requested a clearance to land over the radio, and received a vector heading and told by the controller he was only 15 miles from the base. Soon after emerging from the cockpit, Lt. Kidder, Jr. However, when Kidder broke through the clouds at 1,500 feet, all he could see was freezing water below him.

Weather