Knot Pilot UTC 
Pilot Institute
JANUARY 1, 2025
With the rise in the prevalence of drone flight, drone pilots are now at a stage where they are expected to operate within long-established aviation standards. To this end, drone pilots are expected to understand weather forecasts in the form of METAR and TAF reports. Key Takeaways METAR and TAF provide vital weather info for pilots.
Jetwhine
JULY 14, 2025
An Air India Boeing 787 That’s because of a short piece of text on page 13 reads, “The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC, and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec.
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Aerotime
JULY 12, 2025
Fuel cutoff mid-climb Flight AI171, bound for London Gatwick (LGW), had departed Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (AMD) at 13:39 IST (08:09 UTC). The co-pilot was designated as the pilot flying (PF), while the captain was the pilot monitoring (PM). The engines began to spool down.
Fear of Landing
JULY 18, 2025
Both pilots passed their preflight Breath Analyser test, which is standard procedure for all flight crew at Air India. The first officer was the Pilot Flying with the captain as Pilot Monitoring. The aircraft accelerated along the runway and reached V1, the take-off decision speed, of 155 knots normally.
Fear of Landing
DECEMBER 13, 2024
The flight departed normally from Leipzig Halle Airport at 02:08 UTC (03:08 local), operating as flight QY5690/BCS18D. At 03:28 UTC, ninety minutes into the flight and on final approach to Vilnius, the aircraft crashed near Liepkalnis Hill. One pilot was killed in the crash, the other three suffered serious injuries. instead.
iPad Pilot News
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
SkewTLogPro releases version 3.0upgrade your weather briefing today iPad Pilot News It seems like there are two types of pilots: those who have never heard of Skew-T log (p) charts and true believers who know they are the source of all truth and knowledge about weather. In this case we have moved out five hours, to 2000 UTC.
Pilot Institute
OCTOBER 17, 2024
For pilots and anyone involved in aviation, understanding AIRMETs and SIGMETs is invaluable. SIGMETs alert pilots to more severe weather events like thunderstorms, volcanic ash, or strong turbulence that could pose serious risks to any flight. SIGMETs alert pilots to severe weather, such as thunderstorms. What Is an AIRMET?
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