Archive for the ‘Landing’ Category

Endorsement Circuit Profile

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Endorsement Circuit profile is actually a normal circuit except its a jet aircraft. This is to familiarize the pilot to takeoffs and landings. In one session up to 6 circuits can be performed. 3 normal circuit and 3 one engine inoperative circuit. The circurt is a right hand pattern.

Crosswind Landing

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

What is a crosswind landing? I always thought crosswind landing is cool. For those who don’t know what a crosswind is: A crosswind is a wind condition when the prevailing wind is blowing across the runway. From Encarta: “a wind that blows across a particular route, flight path, or direction of ...

737 New Normal Procedures

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Why do we need a normal procedure? Cant the pilot just get in the plane and fly off? Why waste 20 mins with the entire checklist? What are the pilots doing in the flight deck? Anyway, the B737 New Normal Procedures verify for each phase of flight that the airplane condition ...

Landing Technique

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

This is a video of a MAS Twin Otter landing. I will try to upload the boeing ones later. Enjoy. I dont fly this btw, so i dont know anything about this. I downloaded this vid from some MAS directory. Haha.