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Never Fly on Christmas Day? A Captain Disagrees.
And the three days everyone avoids that I'd book for my own family.
12 hrs ago
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Is It Safe to Fly Over Saudi Arabia? A Pilot Explains
A short pilot’s update for anyone flying to, through or over the Middle East this month.
Oct 13
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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How high do planes fly? A Captain Explains
Most jets cruise around 35,000 feet. A pilot with 10,000+ hours on why that altitude is the safest place to be.
Oct 8
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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FlyDubai FZ1073: When the Threat Is in the Other Seat
A violent descent, two emergency codes, and a captain who opened the door. What we know and what the investigation still needs to establish.
Oct 7
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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September 2026
Delta 251: Smoke on an A330 Over the Atlantic, and What the Pilots Did in the First Two Minutes
Delta 251 turned back over the Atlantic on 27 September with smoke in the cabin. A captain explains what happened in the first two minutes.
Sep 28
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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A Pilot's Technical Briefing for Landing Near a Typhoon
Fuel ladders, crosswind math, runway codes and the aquaplaning formula. Everything a crew works through when a storm like Dujuan sits on the…
Sep 21
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Amazon Prime Miami’s 767 Crash: The Approach Data That Caught my Attention
A descent that briefly flattens. A steeper approach close to the runway. What the flight track reveals and the questions only the investigation can…
Sep 9
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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They Had 21 Minutes. The Checklist Took 30.
Twenty-eight years ago this week, a faint smell over the Atlantic changed how every pilot alive today handles smoke. Here’s what really happened from…
Sep 3
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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August 2026
A Vietnam Airlines 787 Nearly Overran Munich. Here's Why...
A pilot's read of the Munich overrun: what the skid marks show, what the arithmetic says, and the three explanations still standing. Updated.
Aug 26
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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Everyone thinks autoland is a modern computer thing. Concorde did it in 1975, with relays.
Decision height 10 feet. Runway visibility 150 metres. Not a single programmable computer on board. Here is how the fastest airliner ever built put…
Aug 19
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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How Pilots Decide Exactly How Much Fuel To Carry (And Why “Fill It Up” Is The Wrong Answer)
Your plane didn’t leave with full tanks, it left with a number I signed for. Here’s how that number gets built, in plain English.
Aug 13
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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A British Airways A320 Lost 800 Feet Over London on July 6. But Did It Actually Stall?
A stall warning, an 800-foot drop and screams in the cabin: what passengers experienced aboard BA919.
Aug 5
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Pilot Nick 👨🏻✈️
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