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Pilots need to know; don't hide anything about their aircraft from them. | Modern passenger aircraft are extremely complex machines. There are all sorts of automated computer systems which help pilots fly their ...
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If you’re a nervous flyer, you probably don’t want to read about this. Possibly the worst aviation disaster in history almost happened earlier this month. An Air Canada aircraft landing at San Francisco airport ...
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An interesting Gizmodo article came into my newsfeed yesterday. It’s about a video created by a commercial pilot to help someone, even with zero flying experience, safely put a Boeing 737 safely down on the ground in an ...
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One of the favourite holiday destinations, for my kids, is Changi Airport. We don’t actually have to fly anywhere, but just spend time at Terminal 3 of Changi Airport, and sometimes the other terminals too. One of the days ...
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Once a while, you’ll hear about an incident involving a flight delay, diversion, or cancellation, along with the ensuing complaints, at times very heated and nasty, from affected passengers. At times like this, I sometimes ...
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Among the couple of jobs I had dreamed to do, when I was a child, one of them was to be a pilot. I ended up doing something else. But I’ve always had a fascination with flying, and am what you could say an armchair pilot. ...
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I know the MH370 incident is not over, so it might be premature to talk about lessons to learn from it. But so very much has happened, we can talk about learning points for a long time to come. Flight MH370 will likely be one of ...
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It’s not that I want to defend Singapore Airlines, but I thought some of the passengers on the A380 flight SQ 317 that made an emergency landing at Azerbaijan were unbelievably unappreciative of the situation that they were ...
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You must have heard about the two big developments in commercial passenger aircrafts in recent years. The first is the Airbus A380 which went into service in 2007. The other is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which went into service ...
