La FAA est en train de réécrire les règles de formation au pilotage — et l'aéroport de Mesa vient d'empirer les choses.
Share this story America’s flight training ecosystem is under siege from two directions simultaneously: regulatory overhaul from above and economic pressure from below. The FAA just released a 471-page modernization proposal for Part 141 pilot schools on April 1,...
Que se passe-t-il réellement lorsqu'un oiseau percute un avion à réaction à 800 km/h ?
Share this story At 3:27 PM on January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 encountered a flock of Canada geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia. Both engines ingested birds at nearly full throttle. Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger had 208 seconds to...
Why Fighter Pilots Get Callsigns (And How to Earn One)
Share this story You cannot choose your own callsign. That’s the first rule, the most sacred law of fighter pilot culture. You can beg for it, suggest it, lobby the naming committee with bribes and flattery—it won’t matter. Your callsign will be assigned...
Que se passe-t-il réellement lorsqu'un oiseau percute un avion à réaction à 800 km/h ?
Share this story At 3:27 PM on January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 encountered a flock of Canada geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia. Both engines ingested birds at nearly full throttle. Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger had 208 seconds to...
Illusion somatogravique : le tueur invisible au décollage
Share this story It’s 2200 hours over the Persian Gulf. The Airbus A320 rolls into the takeoff, engines howling at full thrust. Everything feels normal. Everything is normal. But inside the flight deck, gravity itself is lying. The pilots of Gulf Air Flight 072...
La crise du kérosène que les compagnies aériennes ne veulent pas que vous voyiez
Share this story The global aviation system is quietly fracturing under pressure most passengers will never see coming. Since Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz in late February, the world’s most critical chokepoint for energy has created shockwaves...
Les approches aéroportuaires les plus dangereuses au monde
Share this story Most airport approaches are boring. You descend on a three-degree glideslope, the ILS holds your hand, and the runway appears out of the haze exactly where it should be. The autopilot could do it. Often, it does. Then there are the approaches that...
Pourquoi certaines traînées de condensation s'étendent-elles sur tout le ciel ?
Share this story Look up on a clear day and you will see them: white lines drawn across the sky by aircraft cruising at 30,000 feet and above. Some vanish almost instantly, dissolving into nothing within seconds of forming. Others stretch from horizon to horizon,...
Why Fighter Jets Dump Fuel Before Landing
Share this story You have seen the photographs: a fighter jet trailing twin streams of white mist from its wingtips, the spray catching sunlight like a veil behind the aircraft. It looks dramatic, wasteful, and slightly insane. Why would anyone dump thousands of...
The Five Most Dangerous Minutes of Every Flight
Share this story The flight is one hour long. For 55 minutes of it, practically nothing bad can happen. The aircraft is at cruise altitude, the autopilot is engaged, and the most dangerous object in the cockpit is probably the coffee. But the first two and a half...
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