

“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
- 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










