Before I became a fulltime airline pilot I would always see pilots sitting in the cabin with the other passengers. I always wondered why they were there and now I do it myself I get to answer that...
Posts by Vasileios Papadiamantis
A pilot's flight bag is one of those things that a pilot cannot be without. No matter if the person is flying a commercial airliner or a small aircraft out in the remote wilderness. A pilot's flight...
A friend of mine recently asked me a question where he has seen many videos of big airplanes just appearing out of the clouds and landing, but yet he has never seen any videos of small airplanes...
As an operational First Officer for a major airline, I get asked the question a lot regarding whether passengers are allowed in the cockpit. Since the crackdown following 9/11 many people think the...
As an airline pilot, I often get asked what pilots get up to in between flights. Depending on the type of flight routing we have will dictate how much time we get between flights and thus what we can...
Flying for any amount of time can soon get boring so the faster it takes the better. Have you ever wondered if pilots fly planes at their maximum speed or are they limited like we are driving a car...