“Ask the Pilot” Collection

Some pages you might find helpful:

• 2003 Air Travel Awards
• 9/11 Commission Report
• Aborted Landings
• Advanced Warning of Pan Am 103 Bombing
• Air Force One Spotting
• Air Travel with an Infant
• Airline Gold Standards
• Airline Hits
• Airline Pop Songs
• Airline Reading
• Airline Reviews
  • Airlines to Africa
  • Pilot Report: Aeropostal
  • Pilot Report: LAN
  • Pilot Report: Pluna
  • Pilot Report: United Airlines Business Class, Hong Kong to Tokyo-Narita
  • Readers Choice Awards, Part 1 of 3: The Best
  • Readers Choice Awards, Part 2 of 3: The Worst
  • Readers Choice Awards, Part 3 of 3: The Leftovers
  • Review of Emirates
  • Riding on a Russian Plane
  • Singapore Airlines Longest Flight
  • The Long Suffering China Air
  • The Pilot gets domestic — and the results aren’t pretty
• Airline Safety
  • Air Rage Part 1
  • Air Rage Part 2
  • Airbus Issues
  • Airplane Safety Cards in Seat Pockets
  • Bird Hitting a Plane
  • Cell Phone Calls In-Flight
  • Closed Off Cockpits
  • Drunk Pilots
  • Electronic Devices in Flight
  • False Flight Plans
  • Flaws in Airline Safety
  • Flight Attack Dry Runs
  • Flying with a Disabled Engine
  • Jet Smarter – Smith Responds
  • Jettison Fuel
  • Lasers and Lunacy
  • Pilot Inspection
  • Restricted Airspace
  • Russian Crash Flights
  • Safety Myths and Facts
  • Seats in Full Upright Position
  • Take-Off Room
  • The Safest Airlines
  • Volvo of the skies
  • Weight and Airplane Calculations
  • Weight Restrictions on Flights
• Airline Tradition
• Airplane Cabin Pressure
• Airplane Engine Fire
• Airplane Engine Pops
• Airplane Finding Runways in Fog
• Airplane Fuel Versus Other Types of Fuel
• Airplane Glide to Landings
• Airplane History of Flight
• Airplane Take Off Bumping
• Airplane Water Landings
• Airplanes and Hollywood
• Airplanes Making Up for Lost Time
• Airport Reviews
  • Airport Stats
  • Ask the Pilot: Logan Airport
  • Information on International Airports
  • JFK International
  • Pilot report: Hong Kong International Airport
  • Terminal 2, New Tokyo International Airport: Narita, Japan
• Aloha Airlines flight 243
• Amount of Fuel an Airplane Carries
• Amount of Turbulence an Airplane Can Handle
• Annie Jacobsen, Terrorism and the Fear of Flying
• Arab Attacks Aimed at US Flights
• Are Airplane Flotation Devices Actually Useful?
• Are Commuter Planes Ex-Commerical Planes?
• Avoiding Asian and African Airline Carriers
• Best Flying Moments
• Bizarre Plane Crashes
• Can Wind Rip off Airplane Wings?
• Cheap Pilots
• Code Shares and Airplane Thrust Reversals
• Code Sharing Between Airlines
• Conspiracy Theories and Flight 77
• Conspiracy Theories and Plane Crashes
• Conspiracy Theory and Annie Jacobsen
• Decreasing Flow of Oxygen to Save Fuel on Airplanes
• Design of Airplanes
• Difference Between Pilot, Copilot and Captain
• Does Dinging Signal Cabin Crews?
• Double Decker Revolutionizing Air Travel
• Egypt Crash and Safety of Thrid World Airlines
• Emergency Landing
• Engine Fire in Flight
• Explaining Three Letter Airport Codes
• Female Pilots
• Flames from Airplane Engine
• Flight Observation
• Flights Taking Off Toward Ocean or Mountain Incline
• Flotation Devices When Flying Domestically
• Fuel and Circling
• General Maintenance
  • 747 Fly a Loop
  • Adjusting Weight on Planes
  • Air Force One and Markings of a Jet
  • Airline Announcements
  • Airline Gags
  • Airline Registrations
  • Airplane Crash on “Lost”
  • Airplane Engines Running at a Terminal
  • Airplane Fuel Different From Other Fuel
  • Airplane Noise Maneuvers
  • Airplane Structure
  • Arctic Flights
  • Art and the Airplane
  • Cleared to Land
  • Cool Mapping Systems and 3-Engine Planes
  • Destinations for First Timers
  • Dinging on Flights
  • Do crews eat the same terrible food as the rest of us?
  • Exhaust
  • Expensive Jet Fuel
  • Flight Cancellation Due to Weather
  • Flight Logbooks
  • Flying Without a Tail
  • Fuel Flying Cross USA
  • Heavy Airplanes
  • Heavy Fliers and Fuel Consumption
  • How are pilots evaluated for promotions and raises?
  • How Do Engines Start?
  • How Does a Jet Engine Work?
  • In-Town Airports
  • Items Taken at Airports
  • Landing at the Wrong Airport
  • Left and Right Runways
  • Life and Times of Patrick Smith
  • Life as a Pilot
  • Listening to Pilot Communication
  • Noise of Boeing vs. Airbus
  • Nonstop to India from the United States
  • Office Paper and Other Misfortunes
  • Onboard Music Offerings
  • Open Window Shade on Landing
  • Overpaid Pilots?
  • Pet Treatment on Planes
  • Pilot Identification
  • Pilot Pay and Seniority
  • Pink Liquid De-Icing Planes
  • Plane Taking Off in Opposite Direction of Destination
  • Religion in the Skies
  • Rudder Deflection
  • Shutting Down an Engine Mid-Flight
  • Shutting Down One Engine After Landing
  • Slanting Planes
  • Southern, Northern Flights and Safety Standards
  • Tape on Airplanes
  • Top Views from an Airplane
  • Unusual Airplanes
  • Weight of Planes
  • Westbound Red Eye Flights
  • What are some ways in which passengers can make the crew’s job easier?
  • What are those numbers and letters for on the back of every plane’s fuselage?
  • What do the Pilots do?
  • What to do with Crews?
  • Which airports do pilots dislike most, and which do they enjoy?
  • Why Delays After Emergency Landings?
  • Why Not Cancel an Empty Flight?
• Getting a Pilot’s License
• Guns in the Cockpit
• History of Aeroflot
• How Does an Airplane Stop so Quickly?
• How worried should we be about shoulder-launched missiles being fired at civilian aircraft?
• Icing and Crashes
• Impressive Piloting
• Incapacitated Crew In Flight
• Japan Plane Crash and Breaking Tail
• Key Subset for Airline Cockpit
• Landing Airplanes on Autopilot
• Largest Airline in the World
• Laser Beams
• Lightning Striking Airplane
• Long Haul Flights and Misc. News
• Longest Nonstop Flight in the World
• Losing an Engine: A Personal Experience
• Low Approach Flights
• Major Accidents on Same Day
• Most Embarrassing Thing as a Pilot
• No US Airline Flights to Africa
• Numbers Along the Edge of the Runway
• Ocean Crossings with Minimum Three Engines
• Oldest Airline in the World
• Opening Emergency Doors Mid-flight
• Operating Airliners Versus Single-Engine Private Planes
• Operating Emergency Doors in Flight
• Panicked Flight Crew
• Pilot as a Dangerous Profession
• Pilot Not Trained for Fog
• Pilot’s View of September 11
• Pilots Paying for Own Training
• Planes Carry Extra Fuel
• Poor Thrust Fallback on Takeoff
• Pre-Flight Safety Briefing
• Price of an Airliner
• Puncture in Fuselage
• Religion, Food and Airlines
• Safest Commercial Planes
• Safety, Terrorism and Airplane Security
• Salaries of Airline Pilots
• Speaking Up About Airplane Issues
• Spelling of Airlines
• Steep Airplane Banks
• Store Tray Table for Takeoff and Landing
• Surviving a Water Landing With a Seat Cushion
• Tackling Terrorism
• Taking on Extra Fuel
• Ten Worst Airplane Crashes in History
• Terror in the Skies, Again?
• The Economist and Airlines
• The world’s largest airliner takes to the sky
• Toilets Emptied in Flight
• Too Hot to Fly
• Trail of Mist Behind Airplane Wingtip
• Transponder Turn Off
• Travel Through Rough Weather
• Travelers Get Lousy Airline Advice
• Trip Down Memory Lane: Historical Planes
• UAL and Pan Am
• Unfounded Fear
• Uphill Runways
• US Downing of Iranian Jet
• What do Pilots Carry?
• What Happened to TWA FLight 800?
• What is the purpose of the complicated watches I always see pilots wearing?
• What Planes Reach Destinations Faster
• Who Cancels and Delays Airline Flights?
• WTC Hijackers and Airplane Training