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

Air Facts

JUNE 4, 2025

I tuned the Manila VOR to confirm my position and set up the next waypoint. 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. Below me stretched a patchwork of rice fields, coconut groves, and coastal villages.

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Altimeter Turbulence Weather VOR 52

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.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We continued our descent for a couple of seconds and then he began a turn again to the left towards the taxiway. If the runway could not be made my plan was to put the aircraft down in the field west of the airport close to the VOR. From my point of view it was evident that we did not have enough room to safely land on Runway 17.

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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 98

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 3, 2025

For example, the profile view in SmartCharts shows the descent angle for an LNAV+V approach (one with an advisory glideslope) and also the visual glideslope angle (like a PAPI). Its within 30nm of the Falmouth VOR, but once thats drawn on the chart you can see how far that is from the airport. A Premium subscription costs $209.98/year,

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NOTAMs Approach Runway Pilot 59

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I had an easy out available to me: a descent of 1000 feet would bring me out of the clouds with plenty of altitude to spare above the terrain. Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing. I shut down the Warrior, tidied up the cockpit, and met him at the nose of my airplane.

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Transponder Clearance Approach General Aviation 52

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

It started out as a routine engine failure, but escalated rapidly when we began to smell what we thought at first was smoke, but which turned out to be oil, in the cockpit. Thinking we could be on fire, we initiated a 7000-fpm descent. Little thought is given to the fact that a 7000-fpm descent will fog the windows.

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Pilot Runway TWR NOTAMs 40