A short article merging airworthiness requirements with operational procedures to enable flight crews to cope with RF legs.

If you are involved in commercial air transport, it might be a good idea to get used to the terms RBT, RTA, CTA and TBO...

This post is all about getting navigation data from the "books" to the aircraft in order to successfully navigate the globe...

The recent outage of GALILEO has clearly demonstrated that any Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) can - from one second to the other - simply fail. L...

Understanding aircraft climb requirements can be a challenge, as this is one of the areas where the world of engineers blends with the world of operators. De...

As pilots we have to ensure many things, but in particular we have to ensure the proper attitude (our own and the one of the aircraft we fly). Accurate attit...

Long gone are the days, where a navigator was tasked to determine the aircraft position using multiple sources and then bring the steering command to the pil...

If you ask an aerospace engineer, what the fundamental requirement for static longitudinal stability of an airplane is, he or she will tell you that “Cm-alph...

Even in today’s “performance-based world” the underlying technology of Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) remains crucial, as no performance-ba...

C* (pronounced „C-Star“), is one of the dominant digital flight control laws for Fly-By-Wire (FBW) transport aircraft. It has its roots in the 1960’s in the ...

When a 200-million-dollar passenger jet approaches a major airport somewhere on this planet and receives some directions from air traffic control (so-called ...

It used to be simple: There were „non-precision“ and „precision“ approaches. But things have changed quite a bit. The advent of performance based navigation ...

This post covers some basic aspects about optimizing turn performance. While we perform turns on a daily basis, they do not necessary get the attention they ...

There are two common misbeliefs associated with aircraft circuit breakers: One relates to resetting a tripped CB, the other refers to why the CB is there in ...