Many checklists and instrument approach procedures come with notes. These notes appear within the checklists in your aircraft's flight manual, and they are displayed in a box just under the frequency, course, and elevation box on an instrument approach procedure chart.
There is nothing more satisfying to a flight instructor than "hearing" that metaphorical "click" that signals that a student has begun to think like a pilot.
While much remains to be learned from the investigation of a fatal January 2 accident in Fullerton, California, the recorded conversation between the pilot and the tower controller suggests that the outcome hinged on a fateful decision made more than a minute before impact.
While writers and publishers use italics or bold type to signal the importance of words and ideas, the engineers who write pilot’s operating handbooks have something else in mind.
Pilots need to know a huge amount of information. Back when learning how to fly meant buying physical books versus using PDF downloads or apps or even CDs or DVDs, one could physically see how much one was expected to know. Stacked together, the basic textbooks for private/commercial IFR, multiengine flying, the FAR/AIM, weight and balance, weather—I’m sure I’ve missed something—came to thousands of pages, not to mention various pilot’s operating handbooks.
It’s 3:58 p.m. local time, Monday, October 26, 2020, near Lubbock, Texas. A small airplane emerges below the clouds traveling low to the ground through the freezing mist
No pilot plans to wind up walking in the wilderness halfway to their intended destination, yet no pilot has ever regretted being prepared for that very outcome.
Learning how to handle emergencies is an essential component of flight training, whether you are a primary student or working on an additional certificate or rating.
It was finally a great morning to fly in northern Wyoming, with severe clear skies and gentle winds after several days of high winds, low clouds, and rain, so I took advantage of it.
After your training flight, the postflight debrief, and your drive home from the airport, I want you to sit down alone for a few minutes in a nice, quiet place.
I remember early in my flying career an older pilot commenting that the most dangerous time to fly an airplane is immediately after it comes out of maintenance. “That’s an exaggeration, bodacious, too,” I thought.
You’ve more-or-less learned to fly. You can accelerate down the runway, become airborne, and return to earth with sufficient grace to keep the airplane airworthy.
Songs come in all genres. Disco freaks have “Stayin’ alive”(Bee Gees) and “Dancing Queen” (Abba); “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (Cyndi Lauper) for popsters; “Hips Don’t Lie” (Shakira) for Latin salsa fans; and if hankering for country, “Achy Breaky Heart” (Billy Ray Cyrus).
Pilots do a lot of briefings. Takeoffs, approaches, missed approaches, single engine procedures, flight attendants, even the guys on the ramp are all topics to be briefed on a regular basis. At my airline, we also make it a point to brief the rejected takeoff (RTO) procedures. These can vary a bit from airplane to airplane based on the available technology and any manufacturer recommendations. We also cover the low speed regime, which we define as anything below 100 knots, and the high speed regime, which is 100 knots and up.
A Cessna Citation was descending toward Fort Myers, Florida, on March 30 when the left-side winglet installed by Tamarack Aerospace departed the aircraft with discernible "jolts" followed by yaw and prompted an emergency landing in Tampa.
A student pilot in a Cessna 152 heard a loud and repeated banging sound as the airplane lifted into the air. Fortunately, off the end of the runway was a golf course, and the student pilot landed on a grass field without further trouble.
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