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A Window Shattered at 15,000 Feet This Morning — Here’s Why the Aeroplane Was Never the Problem
What actually happened on Ryanair FR1879, and the part of the story nobody is writing about.
Jul 10
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Everything I Wish You Knew Before You Fly This Summer
A captain’s honest guide to flying calmer, smarter, and further this season
Jul 2
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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June 2026
I Was Sure This Video Was Fake. Then I Found Out It Was Real.
A Boeing 777 wingtip a few feet from a Texas runway and every reason I thought no real crew would ever do it.
Jun 26
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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A 787 Made a Surprise Fuel Stop in the Outback This Week. Here’s the Part That Should Make You Less Nervous.
What the headlines missed and what it quietly tells us about the wild 22-hour flights Qantas just locked in for 2027.
Jun 25
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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9 Things a Pilot Would Tell You Before You Fly This Summer
No fluff. Just the moves that make summer travel faster, cheaper, and calmer — whether you fly all the time or dread every takeoff.
Jun 16
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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An Air Canada Captain Flew 900 Flights Without a Pilot Licence for 16 years. Here's Why You Were Safer Than It Sounds.
A 28-year captain on why the evidence is calmer than the headline plus the other pilots who pulled the same trick, including one who taught himself to…
Jun 10
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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A United Jet Hit a Light Pole Short of the Runway. The Real Mistake Happened Minutes Earlier.
A stable approach at 500 feet. Six feet over a highway thirty seconds later. what the data shows about 'ducking under' and why walking away from a…
Jun 6
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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22 Hours. 4 Pilots. 10,573 Miles. Inside the Longest Flight in History.
What 28 years of long-haul flying taught me about the human challenge Quantas Project Sunrise was really built to solve
Jun 3
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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May 2026
The DC-10 Lost Every Flight Control at 37,000 Feet.
Sioux City, July 1989 — the “impossible” landing that rewrote how pilots think about systems, teamwork, and what to do when there’s no checklist for…
May 26
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Every Airliner Gets Struck by Lightning Once a Year. Here's Why You Never Hear About It.
The framework I use at FL370 when the radar paints red written for the seat 14A view.
May 19
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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🛫 From Seat 22E and 22F – This Week’s Pilot Answers to Real Passenger Questions
What you don’t see, don’t hear, and rarely get explained — from the people flying the aircraft.
May 15
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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The Yellow Mask That Drops From the Ceiling Isn’t What You Think
Emergency descent followiing an explosive decompression
May 12
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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