Universal Weather

JULY 30, 2025

Knowing where moderate or severe turbulence may exist gives you time to adjust flight levels or reroute altogether. The Value of Long-Range Forecasts Long-range forecasts help operators make better strategic decisions well in advance of day-of-flight. Forecasts Can Be Tailored to Your Needs Long-range forecasts aren’t one-size-fits-all.

Weather

One Mile at a Time

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

LATAM offers Thompson Aero Vantage XL seats on these jets, which is a staggered configuration that you’ll also find on several other airlines. I was expecting there would be bad turbulence, but to my surprise, it was just really light chop. There are eight rows, with the last row just having a pair of seats in the center.

Approach

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Why do jet pilots talk about speed in terms of Mach number? Jet aircraft often fly at speeds close to the speed of sound. The result is a region of separated, turbulent flow behind the shock. Early jet pilots found this out while exploring high-speed jet flight. Smaller regional jets cruise at Mach 0.74–0.78.

True Airspeed

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Keep in mind these huge jets primarily operate flights that are at most two hours, so of course its a completely different experience than on long haul flights. The first class cabin on these domestic jets is pretty intimate, with just 12 seats, spread across two rows, in a 2-2-2 configuration.

Airline

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 1, 2025

From the first days of flying to the evolution of supersonic jets, historic aircraft offer a road map for comprehending the ideas guiding aeronautical engineering. As shown by the Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter in the world, jet propulsion was the most innovative breakthrough of this age. ”

Drag

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 8, 2024

For one, Alaska has Viasat Wi-Fi on these jets, and a full flight streaming pass costs $8. Alaska first class pre-departure drink Alaska 737 MAX first class entertainment & Wi-Fi Alaskas Boeing 737 MAX 9s dont have seat back entertainment, but they do otherwise have a good setup.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Getting a couple of hundred thousand pounds of swept-wing jet down to sea level from 40,000 feet takes a bit of forethought and no shortage of technology. Most of the big jets, when faced with Newtons laws of motion, need a little assistance when going downhill. So, I am careful to watch the speed heading downhill into the turbulence.

Descent

One Mile at a Time

MAY 4, 2025

I wanted to put the A321XLR to the test in terms of passenger experience, so I recently took a quick trip to try this jet on the two airlines operating it so far I flew to Europe in Aer Lingus A321XLR business class , and returned to the United States in Iberias A321XLR business class.

Narrow-Body Aircraft

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 18, 2025

One of the standout aircraft in Drydens research history is the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, a legendary Navy fighter jet that played a key role in two major research programs at the center. enabling precise analysis of laminar-to-turbulent transition across various sweep angles and flight conditions.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For jets, change one of the levers to a flap or speed brake control. Since there are only two thrust levers, the TCA quadrant is best used for jet or FADEC aircraft. This unit gets top marks for both GA and jet simulation. Like the G Pro, the Bravo comes with switchable knobs for both prop and jet aircraft.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. This type of design is common in delta-winged aircraft such as fighter jets. UA232 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10, a tri-jet.

Aileron

Aerotime

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Turbulent trips reinforce the importance of wearing a seatbelt in flight Extreme turbulence is nothing new in aviation, but 2024 has seen several events that served to shine a light on this dangerous phenomenon. The first, and most attention-grabbing, was Singapore Airlines flight 321 which hit severe turbulence over Myanmar.

Turbulence

Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2025

Unlike today, when a new jet fighter may take a decade or more to develop, in the 1950s new and unique ideas were designed, constructed, and tested in a matter of months. This golden age birthed the fabled Century Series jet fighters, the X-planes that set and reset speed and altitude records, and the incredible U-2 and SR-71 spy planes.

Jet

Aviation Bussiness News

JUNE 26, 2025

Jennifer Trock and Katelyn Hilferty of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP write that regulatory turbulence is generating both challenges and opportunities for the MRO sector. The global MRO sector plays a critical role in the aviation industry, ensuring the safety and reliability of aircraft across the globe.

Turbulence

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 2, 2025

Even though the plane is new to Austrian, its not a new jet. He warned of some turbulence on approach, and of strong winds at Washington Dulles, which were gusting up to 30 knots. For whatever reason, the ground agents seemed to be struggling with the jet bridge. So we finally deplaned at 2:25PM, still a bit ahead of schedule.

Approach

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

“The instrument conditions, likely turbulence, and increased workload imposed by beginning the approach phase of the flight presented a situation that was conducive to the development of spatial disorientation and a loss of situational awareness. A great place to start is with the holy trinity of aviationaviate, navigate, communicate.

Pilot in Command

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

If youre visualizing tossing and turning, such as caused by turbulence, stop. Turbulence or gusts: Bumps from wind gusts or turbulence give an initial disturbance in pitch that induces phugoid. In simple terms, a phugoid is a long and gentle oscillation in an aircrafts pitch and altitude. Thats completely different.

Stability

Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

On the 3rd of March 2023, a passenger in a private jet died after severe injuries in the cabin, which were originally reported as caused by severe turbulence. Incidents of severe turbulence are becoming more common, often leading to injury. There was no turbulence. The turbulence everyone feared never existed.

Turbulence

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

gallons per hour, and is compatible with Jet A1 fuel, which is more widely available and often less expensive than Avgas. It features a high-wing design, which gives pilots better visibility of the ground and offers a bit more stability in turbulence due to its pendulum-like configuration.

Stability

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

From managing irregular schedules to coping with jet lag, commercial pilots must be resilient to perform at their best. Pilots must handle high-pressure situations, such as turbulent weather or technical malfunctions, with composure. Physical and Mental Demands The physical and mental demands of flying are often underestimated.

Weather

Pilot Institute

MAY 26, 2025

Welcome to the world of Clear Air Turbulence (CAT). Lets take a closer look at clear air turbulence, so you can anticipate where they might show up, and learn how to manage the risks involved. Lets take a closer look at clear air turbulence, so you can anticipate where they might show up, and learn how to manage the risks involved.

Turbulence

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 26, 2025

While earning a private pilot certificate in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia or learning how to fly jets in the plains of west Texas, each of my first 250 hours were flown exclusively by hand. The major airlines have recognized this and are also taking steps to ensure pilots are getting more opportunities to hand-fly the jet.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

The rich can dream of jets and warbirds. Nothing happens especially quicklyno hair-trigger responses hereplus they are positively trim stable in pitch, handle turbulence well considering their wing loading, and generally dont ask a lot of a pilot. The rest of us fantasize about swinging a Piper Cherokee.

Approach

Flying Magazine

JULY 8, 2025

Too Much Airplane Another common push is the fledgling aviator who wants to do all their training in a turboprop, jet, or multiengine aircraft.

Wind Shear

One Mile at a Time

JULY 7, 2025

I had flown Aer Lingus’ Airbus A321LR business class back in 2019, and it has a very similar hard product to what you’ll find on the updated version of the jet (it’s essentially the same seats, but with updated tech). There wasn’t any turbulence, but the clouds in the distance were huge (and the pictures don’t really do it justice).

Weather

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

It was nice to hear the Captain making announcement before departure and he warned us of some expected turbulence during our descent towards HND. I continued to observe the cabin and I find the crew's interaction with the passengers to be quite pleasant and when there was turbulence, announcments were made to remind us.

Airline

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 18, 2025

On this day in aviation history, 83 years ago (July 18, 1942), the Messerschmitt Me 262 prototype took to the skies for the first time under jet power. This historic flight marked the culmination of Germany’s efforts to develop turbojet-powered aircraft—an endeavor that had begun in the late 1930s.A

Ceiling

Aerotime

APRIL 15, 2025

We were asked to fasten our seat belts, not because of turbulence, but because we were about to land,” Bahia Bakari told a French radio station. According to Agence France-Presse , she said that while she was in the water she had the taste of jet fuel in her mouth and that she was unsure how she was going to get through this.

Turbulence

Pilot Institute

JULY 4, 2025

Squall lines can bring strong turbulence, heavy rain, hail, lightning, and tornadoes. They’re often a warning sign that there’s severe turbulence underneath. This happens when powerful winds—either from a rear inflow jet or a strong downburst—slam into the surface and push the middle of the storm line ahead of the rest.

Weather

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

With type ratings in Canadair Challengers and Embraer Phenom jets, plus lots of experience teaching in LSAs, gyroplanes and in the AirCam twin-engine LSA in both land and sea configuration, Wilkinson has seen all kinds come through the door—from senior astronauts to film stars to jamokes like me.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JULY 8, 2025

One of my all-time favorites is one of my first (wake turbulence) vortices shots that appeared on the cover of FLYING in 1992,” he said. The image shows the wake turbulence vortices off the wings of a jet made visible by the clouds it was flying through. “It He admitted he stopped counting some 15 years ago.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

Aircraft that transform their wing shape mid-flight might sound like something out of a futuristic sci-fi, but they’re actually as old as the jet age itself. Modern jets favor simpler, stealthier fixed-wing designs. This aircraft was an experimental jet fighter with wings that could be adjusted to different sweep angles on the ground.

Weight-Shift-Control

One Mile at a Time

JULY 18, 2025

Ultimately these are some of the sacrifices we’re seeing with the increasing use of premium narrow body jets, since the real estate math is a bit different than on wide body jets. There was a bit of turbulence on the final approach. For example, below was the view from my seat — as you can see, I couldn’t really see anyone.

Approach

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 1, 2025

I expected the gusty wind to create an uncomfortable ride down low, but the turbulence was mild. At the time, anticipation ran high for the Very Light Jet (VLJ) market segment, personal jets that could be used by private owners or for air taxi operations. In case there was any doubt about what we were looking at.

Airplanes

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. Indeed, standing as a significant achievement, 2023 saw no fatal accidents or hull losses for jet aircraft, leading to a record-low fatality risk rate of 0.03 rate per million sectors.

Runway

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Once on board, we settled down quickly and the announcement was made about my flight including expected turbulence during the take-off and a reminder not to film the crew and passengers without permission. After taking off, we experienced some turbulence during our climb and the ride was better once we were out of Taiwan.

Turbulence

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 18, 2025

For the 2nd flight, I thought the crew handled quite well especially it was a turbulent flight and I find the service on both flights quite pleasant. However I decided to use this free day to do a joyride on this airline, furthermore I wanted to fly on the airline's pokemon jet and I decided to go for it both ways on the 767.

Cabin Crew