Every flight is different and each flight presents a learning opportunity. If you find yourself forgetting or not verifying something, consider adding that to your flow to prevent the mistake from happening again. Someday, we all will be a proverbial perfect pilot.
Tag: fighter pilot
MiG 21: My First Love.
Indian Air Force is celebrating 91st anniversary on 08 Oct 2023 with a commemorative parade and airshow at Prayagraj city. It will also be last time that MiG 21 will participate in an air show or a parade.
World Pilots day
Dear Pilots, Thank you to all those who make aviation a reality. Without your skills and dedication, the world would be a hard place to travel and explore. Pilots of the world are truly people worth looking up to. And on this day I thank you for your dedication and hard work thousands of feet above the rest of us. Blue skies and Happy World Pilots Day.
Should Group Exercises be Part of Pilot Recruitment Process?
I qualify pilots as respectable professionals as good as doctor, engineers or lawyer. They are life long learners who endure long years of training and experience to qualify and excel in their professions. While a CV and an interview were enough in earlier times, most airlines discovered that this wasn’t the most effective way of selecting the right candidate because there were many instances in which they missed the negative traits and also forgot to credit positive skills at times. Hence apart from checking skill and knowledge, Aptitude, psychometric, an English Proficiency test is also carried out for non native speakers. But what is lacking in the selection process is group test to evaluate team work, leadership and other human factors while under stress .
Comical Story of Pilot Flight Check
A humorous account of a pilot’s flying knowledge and competency test. Good for a laugh in the midst of all the Covid news.
Learning and Change: Two Constants
Military training is about war and aviation is no different. The goal is to win. This is at a very high level and is decomposed through different levels of the organization and finally, it is about mission success. Success is further measured against well-defined objectives.
Avoiding landing at the wrong airport; is it so demanding?
Geographic disorientation in aviation operations results from the failure of an aircrew to recognize and/or maintain the desired position relative to the external ground and airspace environment. Becoming lost during flight, intruding inadvertently into unauthorized airspace, selecting a wrong airway, landing on the wrong runway, and approaching the wrong airport–with or without actual landing–are some examples of inflight geographic disorientation.
Wingman 2.0 and Fighter Operations!
As the capabilities of AI-enabled robots increase, and in particular as behaviors emerge that are both complex and outside past human experience, how will we organize, train, and command them — and the humans who will supervise and maintain them?
Flying at Night
This article provides generic guidance on flying at night for pilots.
Aviation Meteorology: Concepts and Fundamentals
Aviation meteorology is the study of weather from the unique perspective of the aviation industry. This subject began during the era of hot-air balloons and gliders. … Subjects such as high-level or “clear-air” turbulence materialized as aircraft regularly penetrated largely unexplored regions of the atmosphere.