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Widerøe airlines upgrades Dash 8 fleet with Universal Avionics flight display system

Professional Pilot

PRESS RELEASE U niversal Avionics (UA), today announced that Widerøes Flyveselskap AS (Widerøe), Scandinavia’s largest regional airline, is upgrading its Dash 8 fleet with the InSight flight deck and connected avionics solution as part of De Havilland Canada’s upgraded avionics suite.

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ACARS Explained: How It Keeps Aircraft Connected

Pilot Institute

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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From the Bottom of the Sea to Wildwood: The Incredible Story of the F6F Hellcat at the NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum

Vintage Aviation News

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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Who is the pilot in command of your aircraft?

Air Facts

They arent just a list of priorities in an emergency, they also neatly sum up the different roles a pilot must play, roles that used to be divided very specifically on the flight deck of an airliner. Consider the amazing picture below, taken on the flight deck of a Boeing 314 flying boat over 80 years ago.

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Flight Instruments vs. Avionics

WayMan

flight Instruments vs. Avionics An aircraft’s flight deck, with its collection of displays and controls, is a wonder of engineering. Two terms that are often heard are “flight instruments” and “avionics.” For a future pilot, a thorough knowledge of these systems is essential.

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FlightSimCoach.com Available at Home and on Your Schedule

Flying Magazine

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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The A350F – shaping the future of airfreight: Q&A with Oliver von Tronchin, Airbus

Aviation Bussiness News

That means less back-and-forth, less potential damages, and more advantages for clearances, which will result in quicker turnaround times and improved on-time flight schedules. This gives airlines the chance to offer pilots new career opportunities within their own flight operations environment.