Preflight checks are mandatory for all pilots, encompassing external and internal aircraft inspections, documentation verification (ARROW), and flight plan review, as per FAA regulations (14 CFR § ...
If you're hitting the road this holiday season, you should take your car for an inspection to make sure you don't have any ...
Pilots use a detailed pre-flight checklist before taking passengers’ lives into their hands. So why shouldn’t operating room surgeons and nurses be subjected to the same rigorous preparation? That’s ...
With more flight experience comes more confidence. However, sometimes an unfortunate byproduct of confidence after logging hundreds or thousands of flight hours is laziness and cockiness, both of ...
Checklist design and procedures featured on the agenda of this week’s high-level ICAO safety conference following the fatal loss of a Boeing MD-82 at Madrid, and the extraordinary escape of an MD-83 ...
Radical changes to emergency routines for pilots confronted with smoke, fire and fumes incidents are being jointly worked out by Airbus and Boeing, but experts are disappointed that regulators are not ...
Click to viewYou've already found your cheap tickets and followed every other step of our Power Traveler's Pre-Flight Checklist, and now the day is here. You should already have yourself set up for a ...
Click to viewThe holiday travel season is just around the bend, meaning if you're planning to fly the friendly skies this Thanksgiving or Chrismukkah, you've either already bought your tickets or ...