Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. Approach speeds typically range from 80 to 90 knots depending on weight and flap settings, while full flaps are often used to provide the necessary lift during landing.

Descent

Air Facts

APRIL 14, 2025

Now consider that VAOAI is to be added in to the cockpit. Newer GA glass cockpits may have the data and compute power to address this, but the cost to implement and product liability may hamper implementation, especially if the augmentation algorithms must be tailored to invidual airplanes or installations.

Final Approach

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

Witness statements and recorded video showed that during the takeoff roll from the 5,500-foot-long asphalt runway, the airplane accelerated slower than normal, used more runway than normal, and lifted off the runway in a nose-high attitude. It climbed about 300 feet above ground level while flying a left traffic pattern back to the runway.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

I sat in the cockpit of the old Tecnam P92-JS Echo, tail number I-GITR. The I-GITR lifted off and I was flying solo for the first time. A crosswind gust nudged me left; I corrected with right rudder. Aviation teaches you that you’re never truly solo—not in the cockpit and not in life. But there was no turning back now.

Runway

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

At Leopard Aviation , we teach this maneuver early on because knowing when and how to go around is a key part of good judgment in the cockpit. We’ll prepare you to handle go-arounds smoothly every time, setting you up for success in the cockpit. Retracting flaps too quickly can reduce lift prematurely.

Air Traffic Control

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

With lateral options dwindling, the Bell 47D went into a vertical lift. After one full revolution, the helicopter lifted rapidly from the ground and climbed immediately. At Ocracoke, North Carolina, an RV-6 (tailwheel version of 6a) landedtechnicallywith a 90-degree crosswind. Feliz ao nuevo! pole dancer. No doors, no problem.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Storo lifted the British fighter into the air for the first time on June 28, 2022, from Tillamook Municipal Airport near his home. “Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off.

Crosswind

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These maneuvers include an engine failure on takeoff, loss of lift on the wing during departure, en route, and approach, crosswind landings, wind shear scenarios, engine inoperative landings, low visibility landings, crash landings and evacuation. I believe that airline pilots are the most scrutinized profession in the world.

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Air

MAY 21, 2025

Crosswind: The Sideways Challenge A crosswind blows across your intended flight path , being most critical during the takeoff and landing phases. Every aeroplane has a maximum demonstrated crosswind component it’s certified to handle. Can cause sudden losses or gains in indicated airspeed (IAS), directly affecting lift.

Crosswind

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.

Runway

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In order to communicate in the cockpit (and protect your hearing), you will need a headset. In order to communicate in the cockpit (and protect your hearing), you will need a headset. #3 While we all have a flashlight on our phone, it will be extremely difficult to use for preflight and in the cockpit. Flight Outfitters Lift 2.0

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Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

Witness statements and recorded video showed that during the takeoff roll from the 5,500-foot-long asphalt runway, the airplane accelerated slower than normal, used more runway than normal, and lifted off the runway in a nose-high attitude. It climbed about 300 feet above ground level while flying a left traffic pattern back to the runway.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Proper AOA management affects lift generation and stall prevention. It is one of the main factors affecting lift, and airplanes need a constant source of lift to fly. As we stated a little while ago, understanding the angle of attack is fundamental to understanding aerodynamics and how lift is generated.

Lift

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

He briefed the pilot on the cockpit instruments and best speeds for take-off, climb and glide. The pilot applied some aileron to compensate for the crosswind and then applied full power. The flaps had been extended for the take-off, in order to increase lift. They were finally good to go. They accelerated along the runway.

Runway

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

To get there, you need to follow the signboard leading you to a lift and from the lower level, you can walk through the underpass to get to the other building. Do you like the racoon style cockpit? The racoon style cockpit Time to experience my first Aegean Airlines flight! Do you recognise this cartoon character?

Airline

Fear of Landing

JUNE 13, 2025

The weather was hot: the METAR for the crash time (VAAH 120700Z 25006KT 6000 NSC 36/19 Q1001 NOSIG) shows a slight crosswind for runway 23, with good visibility and temperature of 37°C, standard conditions for June in Ahmedabad. However, the Boeing lifts off and seems to reach a positive rate of climb, despite being heavy on a hot day.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Combining the Gweduck’s advanced hull with its counter-rotating propellers means differential power allows crosswind water taxiing impossible in floatplanes along with higher hull-in-water taxiing speeds. “We The takeoff technique is conventional taildragger—add full power, let the tail come up, then lift off when you get above Vmc.

Airplanes

World Airline News

JULY 26, 2025

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Airline

World Airline News

JULY 25, 2025

The majority of KM’s cockpit crew pr. The pilot strike at KM Malta Airlines began on July 21, 2025, as a result of longstanding tensions surrounding recruitment practices and pilot seniority. com) (46) Jet2.com FC Union Berlin 1time 1time.co.za

Cargo

World Airline News

JUNE 10, 2025

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Cargo