Browsing: Cockpit & Operations
Practical cockpit and flight operations coverage, including aircraft systems, procedures, safety, crew decision-making and airline operations.
Not every airliner is certified to land on water. The regulation that covers it opens with a conditional: “If certification…
No drink within 8 hours, and a limit of 0.04, half the usual driving limit. Plus random drug testing that covers half the workforce a year.
Between 9 and 19 hours, depending on start time, number of flights, how many pilots are aboard and what kind of bed the aircraft carries.
There is no legal cabin temperature. What the rules actually control, and why crew keep the cabin cooler than you would choose.
Roger is not yes and heavy is not an insult. What pilots say on the radio and over the PA, defined by the FAA rather than guessed at.
Who actually flies you, why two quotes for the same route differ so much, how far ahead you really need to book, and what to check before you pay.
What a Part 135 charter operator is legally required to carry, why experienced buyers insist on far more, and the four things to confirm before you sign for a trip.
When your bag transfers automatically, when you have to collect it yourself, what happens to it when you miss the connection, and what the airline owes you when it goes missing.
Every airliner is struck about once a year, and 90 percent of those strikes are triggered by the aircraft itself. What the bolt does, why no jet has been lost to one since 1963, and the real reason crews give thunderstorms 20 miles.
X-rayed for density, flicked off a sorter at two metres a second, and stacked in a heated hold. The full journey your checked bag takes, where 39 percent of them actually go missing, and what happens to the ones nobody claims.