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

MAY 20, 2024

This would work great for me as I would get the highly desired middle break during our 10 hour flight home. 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.

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Flight Deck Cockpit Approach Descent 96

Northstar VFR

MAY 26, 2024

Chair flying is a technique to practice your flying skills by either sitting in the airplane on the ground, using a simulator, or sitting in front of a poster of your flight deck. For this article, we will focus on using a flight deck, or cockpit, poster for chair flying at home. What do I need for chair flying?

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Pilot Flight Deck Checkride Cockpit 90

Flight Training Central

JUNE 3, 2024

Easier said than done with the myriad of distractions that can be found on the flight deck. The standby radio is available for more than just a backup or obtaining your IFR clearance. From advanced avionics to streaming music to needy passengers, distractions lurk. Monitor guard.

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Flight Deck Clearance Tail Pilot 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

His team developed the concept in the late 1970s to improve “interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision-making” in aircraft flight decks. CRM has gone on to become a staple of airline and military flight training. The first step is to know the person you are sharing the cockpit with. and we were off.

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Weather Clearance Pilot Airplanes 91

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As the flight drew closer to its destination, the first officer contacted the Voepass operational dispatcher at Guarulhos to coordinate their arrival. A cabin crew member contacted the flight deck, but the first officer asked her to wait while he finished dealing with dispatch. The airframe de-icing system turned off.

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Knot Approach Descent Weather 104

Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The CVS is available with the Pro Line Fusion flight deck. Garmin G1000 Garmin SVS has been an optional feature of the popular G1000 glass cockpit system since 2008. Bombardier, Cessna, Cirrus, Embraer, and Piper turboprops all use Garmin flight decks. So is the Pilatus PC-24’s Advanced Cockpit Environment suite.

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Flight Deck Primary Flight Display Approach Runway 52

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Instrument Rating Test Prep and Ground School Sporty’s award-winninginstrument ratingcourse offers over 13hours of engaging HD video training, written test prep, maneuvers training, Airman Certification Standards and flight syllabus.

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Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes 91

Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

PRESS RELEASE G3000 PRIME App Menu G armin introduced G3000 PRIME, its most advanced integrated flight deck yet. “Twenty years ago, Garmin redefined the general aviation cockpit with the G1000, our first integrated flight deck.

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Flight Deck Cockpit Runway Stability 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The instrument training trap – First, a word of caution – while your instrument flying skills and cockpit management techniques will no doubt be sharp when you earn your ticket, more than likely, the majority of your training and checkride preparation was spent in the terminal environment.

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Checkride Flight Deck Weather Approach 52

Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

If the co-pilot was lucky, the captain might let them work the radios and help with a few navigational duties, but the phrase “Gear up and Shut up” was considered a normal cockpit environment. This finding highlighted the role of communication, decision-making, and leadership in cockpit behavior and the resulting accidents.

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Flight Plan Knot Runway Airplanes 105

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Given the need to preserve noggin-to-wing-spar clearance, its a smart but necessary solution. Flight Design can will the F2 with a GTN 650 in place of the 175, though Gutmann says hes also looking into using the Garmin GNX 375 GPS/transponder. Otherwise, the F2s flight deck layout is generally straightforward.

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Rudder Airplanes Aileron Crosswind 98