Flight Training Central

MAY 11, 2025

maximum weight and 120 knots maximum speed (a Cessna Skycatcher, for example). A 1 st Class medical is required when flight operations require an Air Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate. An ATP is required to act as the Pilot in Command (PIC) or Captain of a scheduled airliner.

Pilot

Aerotime

JULY 12, 2025

The co-pilot was designated as the pilot flying (PF), while the captain was the pilot monitoring (PM). After a normal takeoff roll and liftoff, the aircraft reached a maximum recorded airspeed of 180 knots. The 32-year-old co-pilot had just over 3,400 total hours, with 1,128 hours on type.

UTC

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Seems the accident helicopter was the subject of a FAA Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR), which specified academic, flight training, qualification, and currency requirements for pilots acting as pilot-in-command. Other than that, what? Curious mistakes for a well-trained crew.

Pilot

Air Facts

JUNE 23, 2025

I was still at 120 knots. Had we crashed, it would have been a textbook investigation: Pilot in command descended below minimums and impacted terrain. Both pilots suffered fatal injuries. Trees—wait, trees ! I could see pinecones at my two o’clock. Then grass. And a second later—approach lights. Then the runway.

Altimeter

Photographic Logbook

JULY 5, 2025

Exceptions included a couple of instrument proficiency flights with Gilead and Tom where each was willing to act as pilot in command (PIC) for the flight. When I arrived, Northeast Philly Airport was not only extremely busy ("Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full") but everyone was landing with a gusty 20 knot crosswind.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Detail of Draken N155XD’s cockpit (Adam Estes) However, on June 26, 1998, one of AT-155/N155XD’s sister ships, AT-156/N156XD was badly damaged during an exercise at NAS Oceana, VA, in which the pilot noted after completing three passes by a US Navy ship, his fuel was rapidly running out.

Pilot in Command

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

With more than two decades since the last DC-3 floatplane flight, there were no more living DC-3 floatplane pilots. As the airplane neared readiness for flight, Rodney began to look for qualified pilots in August 2024, and eventually took on Eric Zipkin as the pilot-in-command for the first flight, joined by Garrett Fleishman as co-pilot.

Rudder

Flight Training Central

MAY 1, 2024

maximum weight and 120 knots maximum speed (a Cessna Skycatcher, for example). A 1 st Class medical is required when flight operations require an Air Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate. An ATP is required to act as the Pilot in Command (PIC) or Captain of a scheduled airliner.

Pilot in Command

Flying Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

I don’t have such a story since I am always diligent about minimizing my exposure to adverse weather when I am the pilot in command (PIC). As we turned to intercept the localizer, the winds were 360 at 53 knots at 2,000 feet, according to our wind vector on the primary flight display.

Weather

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Minimum Pilot Certification for Class B Airspace Due to the complexity of the airspace, the FAA requires you to have a minimum level of certification or a minimum amount of training and an endorsement in order to fly within Class B airspace. Hold a student pilot certificate and have met the training and endorsement requirements in 61.94

Indicated Airspeed

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Pilot Requirements You’re allowed to enter Class B airspace only if: The PIC (Pilot in Command) holds at least a private pilot certificate. The PIC holds a recreational pilot certificate and meets the requirements of 14 CFR § 61.101. The PIC holds a sport pilot certificate with 14 CFR § 61.325 endorsements.

Clearance

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 15, 2024

The NTSB ruled the cause of the crash to be the instructor's decision to launch into poor weather conditions, putting the blame with the pilot in command exactly where it belonged. Tragically, her instructor's Cessna Cardinal crashed after departing into severe weather from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Approach

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 24, 2024

As an added bonus in 2024, breakfast was free to all pilots in command who flew in. I think it may have been the first fly-in pancake breakfast for student pilots Alyssa and Eric. With a 15 knot headwind, we were airborne 1.8 I enjoy Piseco’s pancake breakfasts. Alyssa, Kristy, and me flying home from Ticonderoga.

Runway

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

Assuming the mighty Warrior can produce a groundspeed of 90 knots, you take that number, divide it by 60, and you’ll end up with 1.5. It’s your Pilot in Command responsibility under 91.103. First off, in order for 343’ per nautical mile to have any useful value, I’ve got to convert it to something I can use, (i.e., Multiply 1.5

Density Altitude

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Today would be his first landing on the ice as pilot in command. With as much as 25 knots of tailwind, we made the flight from Sodus to Alton Bay in only two hours. Since 2019, pilots in command have been presented with poker chips -- what the Alton Bay crew fittingly call "ice chips" -- commemorating landing at Alton Bay.

Runway

Air Facts

AUGUST 26, 2024

Make this one of the key measures of your pilot proficiency: can you maintain a predetermined airspeed with a maximum deviation of +10/-5 knots (the Private Pilot ACS)? In fact, I believe most pilots need fewer stalls and more slow flight in their training diet (at least after the Private checkride).

Knot