A lot of pilots saw some impressive video of a German Airbus airline crew trying to land in a horrendous crosswind. Other than the wind, the weather was good. The crab angle on final was substantial ...
The difference between simulated instrument flying and the real thing—especially when compounded by darkness—is difficult for novice instrument pilots to imagine. [iStock] A pilot flying a Piper ...
Everyone who flies needs to know about this. It's a standard procedure, but since it isn't used often, if you don't know about it, it could really frighten you. A client emailed about her first ...
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is conducting inquiries into separate incidents at Sunshine Coast Airport and Sydney Airport that caused Boeing 737-800s to make missed approaches. The 7 ...
Qantas Group carrier Network Aviation has taken several safety actions after a Fokker F100 set down below landing minima in bad weather and short on fuel. The below minima landing at Western Australia ...
A Frontier A319 passed within 50 feet of another aircraft while executing a missed approach at Denver Airport last Friday morning. The Frontier aircraft broke out of cloud on approach, but the pilot ...
If the NTSB had examined the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), those would have been the only words exchanged between the pilot monitoring (PM) and the pilot flying (PF) between 500 ft. AGL and the PM’s ...