Flying Magazine

JUNE 19, 2025

At the Paris Air Show, Baum told FLYING he previously owned a TBM 930—which added Garmin’s G3000 flight deck and Daher’s e-copilot, designed to lower pilot workload—and currently flies its successor, the 940. However, he lives in Vermont, near what he described as “kind of an all-weather airport.”

Flight Deck

Pilot Institute

MAY 8, 2025

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. Weather Updates and D-ATIS ACARS can also improve relaying weather information.

Clearance

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 28, 2025

Visitors can go inside Intrepid Museums Aircraft Restoration Hangar on the flight deck and hear a discussion on the process of restoring and preserving aircraft on display at the Museum (approx. This event is weather permitting. 20 minutes, on the half-hour).

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

With the Garmin G1000 suite and GFC 700 autopilot, pilots can rely on a fully integrated and highly capable flight deck. Avionics highlights include dual WAAS GPS, Garmin GTX 345R ADS-B In/Out transponder, Garmin terrain awareness and active traffic, Garmin GDL 69A XM weather and radio, and WX-500 Stormscope.

Transponder

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

Rather, it is affected by many factors, such as weather conditions and the presence of obstacles. FSS Flight Service Station A Flight Service Station (FSS) is a ground facility that relays information to aircraft pilots. VFR requires minimum weather and visibility conditions.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 18, 2025

The G5000 STC yields the same flight deck that was standard in a new Citation X, Latitude, Longitude, Sovereign, and sister product (the Garmin G3000) in smaller Citation CJ3+ and M2 light jets. Compared to some of the ancient avionics in the flight decks of some older jets, the Avidyne Atlas is worlds ahead.

Flight Deck

WayMan

JUNE 16, 2025

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.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Aviation Bussiness News

JUNE 16, 2025

In 2015, the airline selected Honeywell’s flight-deck systems for its 240-unit order of 737 MAXs, adding to its existing fleet of 737 next generation models flying with Honeywell cockpit avionics. Southwest Airlines was also the first airline to incorporate Honeywell’s Integrated Multi-Mode Receiver technology into its fleet.

Runway

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Flight Gear Backup Battery —In the world of the iPad pilot, flights demand power, and Flight Gear’s line of backup batteries is more than capable of keeping all your devices charged. Designed specifically for the iPad flight deck, these battery packs offer multiple USB ports and safety features that ensure stable performance.

Pilot

Fear of Landing

MARCH 7, 2025

The First Officer, Dionisio Lpez, was nearly as experienced as Carlos with 12,000 flight hours. An Instructor Pilot, Arturo Soley, was also on the flight deck, to monitor the performance of this new plane for the airline. They were having fun, showing passengers their new, modern, flight deck, which was allowed then.

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

JULY 24, 2025

READ MORE: Fly Me to the Moon: Companies Are Making It Happen That is precisely NASA’s vision for IASMS—a system that continuously checks the status of aircraft, airports, weather, air traffic management, and other sources to predict dangers before they happen.

Airfoil

One Mile at a Time

JULY 7, 2025

Escape Lounge seating Minneapolis Airport My flight was departing from gate E12. The weather in Minneapolis was really bad, to the point that there was a tornado watch, and flights had to be stopped multiple times. I ended up just spending a bit of time here working, and then got some steps in the terminal.

Weather

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To cope with these challenges, airline glass flight decks contain a vertical navigation function (VNAV) that keeps the autopilot, and the crew, on the right path to arrive at the final approach fix, or downwind leg, at speed and on altitude. Image: Shutterstock.

Descent

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

The latest iteration of its proprietary avionics package is the Primus Epic Integrated Flight Deck. The package features an interactive navigation system (INAV), which allows a pilot to select and click flight plan-specific options within the flight management system (FMS). The Apex is offered on the Pilatus PC-12 NG.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

The cockpit is a pilot’s dream, centered around the Garmin G1000 NXi integrated flight deck. Key features include the fully integrated Garmin GFC700 autopilot, Garmin Synthetic Vision Technology, and Garmin Flight Stream 510 for wireless database and flight plan transfers.

Flight Deck

Air Facts

APRIL 14, 2025

Rather, the system, in the largest sense, includes VAOAI advocates and promoters, regulators, pilots, aircraft, regulations, training, airports, air traffic, airspace, weather, publications, public opinion, and more. as it apparently originated from FAA Flight Deck Human Factors. Evaluating VAOAI is not that simple.

Final Approach

Pilot Institute

MAY 8, 2025

If the weather becomes risky, if youre having trouble with your fuel supply, or for any other reason, you might decide to land to avoid an emergency. Severe Weather Conditions Turbulence, icing, or extreme cold can all affect gear operations. Check the weather conditions. The weather was calm, and visibility was good.

Air Traffic Control

Professional Pilot

MARCH 14, 2025

At the core of the new PC-12 PRO is its updated Advanced Cockpit Environment ACE, powered by the Garmin G3000 PRIME Integrated Flight Deck. The weather radar features a new and larger antenna to provide even greater situational awareness in the cockpit. In short: The Most Advanced Single has landed.

Cockpit

AOPA

JULY 21, 2025

Inside the flight deck, the manual flap handle has been moved to the floor. The aircraft has a useful load of just over 900 pounds, and a stall speed below 45 knots. The RV–15 will cruise at 140 knots and needs less than 400 feet for takeoff and landing.

Tail

Captain Laura

JUNE 2, 2025

We are thinking about the specific jet we are about to fly, maintenance issues we may need to contend with, the weather which may affect us on departure, enroute, and destination. Specific Safety Communication and Psychology on the Flight Deck: The captain has the ultimate authority. Will we possibly need to hold or divert?

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JUNE 6, 2025

This Cirrus comes with a Garmin GFC-700 digital autopilot that works in tandem with a flight director, yaw damper, and Garmin’s Electronic Stability Protection (ESP) system. Cirrus equipped this aircraft for flight into known icing (FIKI) with the TKS ice protection system.

Annual Inspection

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 6, 2025

The cellular model also allows you to download weather and file flight plans on the go, but don’t count on this cellular data connection to work in the air. The one exception on the iPad Pro models is if you’re looking for the ultimate big-screen experience on the flight deck.

Pilot

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 27, 2025

The agency reported there were no abnormalities with aircraft control commands or with radio communication, there was no bad weather in the area, the plane wasn’t carrying any dangerous goods, and the pilots were fully certified. After all, historically most pilot suicides have occurred when pilots were alone in the flight deck.

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

JULY 15, 2025

Engine enhancements include a SureFly electronic ignition system for consistent starts, GAMIjectors for optimal lean-of-peak operation, and Reiff preheat system built for cold-weather reliability. Avionics are centered on a Garmin G1000 integrated flight deck with dual GNS 530W navigation units providing WAAS enabled GPS approaches.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

At $69.99, the DC-6 is one of the most expensive aircraft available in-sim, but like other aircraft in the same pricing tier, it offers a level of systems modeling that can take you from radial engine neophyte to feeling confident enough to step onto the flight deck of a real DC-6 to help out someday. One can dream and prepare, right?

Flight Deck

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

But step out onto the flight deck, and the Kiev starts to reclaim some of its former grandeur. Painted aircraft parking spots still line the deck, and a few weathered Nanchang Q-5s and a lone Yak-38 replica have been staged for effect. Within the superstructure, the flight deck control and bridge remain largely intact.

Flight Deck

Professional Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

Modern flight decks combine cutting-edge interfaces, synthetic vision systems (SVS), and advanced connectivity tools to optimize safety, situational awareness, and operational efficiency. (L) Pro Line Fusion provides the industrys first touch-control primary flight display (PFD).

Flight Deck

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Yakobchuk Viachelev / Shutterstock One of the last activities you may notice before the doors close will be the flight dispatcher entering the flight deck to hand over any last-minute paperwork, the final passenger and fuel figures, and a finalized load sheet to the flight crew.

Cabin Crew

AeroSavvy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Equipment Check My airline assigns the first officer (or International Relief Officer on long flights) to inspect flight deck equipment. Boeing 767-300F flight deck Cockpit Setup – Go With the Flow! I really enjoy the walk-around and never delegate in bad weather… typhoon, snow, sunshine, I don’t care.

Flight Deck

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 14, 2024

FAA Updates Datalink Weather Advisory Circular iPad Pilot News The rollout of ADS-B datalink weather over twelve years ago was an interesting time for GA pilots. Pilots were free to use the system immediately with these new portable receivers, which improved in-flight decision-making almost overnight.

Weather

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2025

When activated, algorithms and sensors work to fly the aircraft to the nearest suitable airport, a process that includes notifying air traffic control (ATC) while navigating away from terrain, obstacles, and weather. It even communicates with the passengers as the aircraft comes to a full stop and shuts down the engine.

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

At every cabin crew station, where crew members sit during take-off, landing, and during bouts of turbulence, interphones are available for cabin crew members to communicate with each other, as well as with the pilots on the flight deck. Of course, they also double up to act as the PA system for announcements to the passengers.

Cabin Crew

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 14, 2025

Its almost unthinkable in an airliner, and surely tensions were high in the flight deck. On May 24, Drdano, along with first officer Dionisio Lopez, was operating TACA Flight 110 from Belize City to New Orleans. On the initial descent, weather radar painted areas of moderate to heavy precipitation ahead.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These aircraft span multiple decades, from the 1940s through the 1980s, and museum guests can get an up-close look at them on both the flight deck and hangar deck. Some aircraft are occasionally moved between decks using the ship’s #1 aircraft elevator. Top Gun jet on display at USS Lexington in Corpus Christi.

Flight Deck

Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

A representative of Austrian Airlines said on Austrian television that the thunderstorm cell was not visible on the aircraft’s weather radar. The limitations of weather radar came up in the discussion about the extreme turbulence suffered by Singapore Airlines flight SQ321. A high psychological strain for the crew.

Airlines

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

FAA weather charts can help for higher altitudes but when just a few thousand feet agl, they may be less useful. On a flight from Kalispell to Great Falls, Montana, as captain I said, “Ladies and gentlemen, this will be a scenic, pleasant 45-minute flight. Great Falls weather is fair and warm. Enjoy your flight.”

Turbulence

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

To demonstrate this magnificent place, I chose horrendously gusty winds by manually editing the weather in both X-Plane 12 (XP12) and MSFS2020. Left downwind on a blustery day with live weather actually shows a virga burst over the field, with local winds gusting 36 knots, making for some extreme conditions in such a tight canyon.

Crosswind