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Here is a list of meteorological conditions necessary for the formation of tropical cyclonic storms, provided by Brad Crosier of FlightSafety International.
Although transport aircraft have three independent speed-sensing systems, environmental factors such as high-altitude ice crystals have the potential to remove this redundancy and create simultaneous failures.
Whenever I witness a transport airplane cross a runway threshold by a few feet, I think back to all the accidents in which aiming for “brick one” ended badly.
The accurate display of airspeed information at high altitude is vital because the margins between the low-speed and high-speed buffet margins can be thin.
Business aircraft travel to Moscow in the last two years has fallen by 50% and is continuing at that level the year, says security expert Charlie Leblanc.
Status: Capital (Moscow), largest city, financial and cultural center Country visa requirement: Required for passengers and crew; for tech stops, generally unnecessary, but as this policy varies from airport to airport, operators are advised to obtain visas as a backup. At Moscow, flight crews can obtain visas on arrival. However, the process is time-consuming and not recommended by flight planning agencies.
The Corporate School of Etiquette was launched by a former corporate flight attendant to focus on the finer areas of service skills and culinary arts training.
It seemed nothing would go right for Ameristar Charters Flight 9363 until the captain averted tragedy by aborting the takeoff after accelerating through V1.
Questions for William Korner, chairman and CEO of Flight Research Inc. and The International Flight Test Institute, Mojave Air & Space Port, Mojave, California.
Piper's PA-46-500TP Meridian has been the lowest-priced pressurized, single-engine turboprop offered by an airframe manufacturer for nearly two decades.
