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Airline Ratings Air India Express 737. Credit: Aviation Herald Cockpit automation is leading to airline industry complacency warns a new study from the Royal Aeronautical Society Flying Operations Group, which says many crashes would never have happened if pilots were just capable of basic piloting skills and standards were higher. As the 12 th anniversary of AF447 looms, the chorus of concern over the lack of progress on the degradation of flying standards has now been joined by th...

Chimes Aviation Academy inks pact with IndiGo for cadet pilot programme Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA) has inked an agreement with the countrys largest airline IndiGo for cadet pilot programme, which will commence from March this year. CAA has signed an agreement with IndiGo for cadet pilot programme and the first batch of the programme will start from March, a release said on Saturday. Prior to the lockdown, IndiGo and CAA had jointly decided to train ab-initio p...

Chimes Aviation Academy enters into pact with IndiGo for cadet pilot programme CAA has signed an agreement with IndiGo for cadet pilot programme and the first batch of the programme will start from March, a release said on Saturday. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- By PTI NEW DELHI: Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA) has inked an agreement with the countrys largest airline IndiGo for cadet pilot programme, which will commence from March this year. Established in 2008, CAA is a flying training org...

MIAMI – Airways Profile is a new column published in the online edition of Airways. Use the tag #AirwaysProfile on your Instagram post for a chance to be featured in the future! Welcome to another episode of Airways Profile! Chris, thank you for taking the time to be with us. I hope you are ready because this is going to be a long afternoon. Let’s begin with the simplest of the questions I will ask you today – maybe not, but we’ll talk about it later. What’s your name and what’s yo...

Issue. there are systems on airplanes that do thoings keep the airplane out of trouble. if the airplane got too slow, it automatically pushed the stick. but there were systems that added to this airplane when boeing increased the engine size that made it necessary to put on this max system. and what happened is that boeing sold the airlines on the fact that this was the same type certificate, same type rating pilots wouldnt need a new one. and this is a training issue. these systems, there are w...

Difference. landing a plane on one engine is the single most practiced act of captains and first officers. they do it in their training, they do it in their type rating, they do it in their six monthly sim checks. losing an engine on takeoff and having to do a go around and come back again is one of those things thats well practiced. and also modern day aircraft, the 320 series as indeed the 73 series is built with avionics that help the pilots in those situations. >> a bit scary. both engines l...

Forth that they might not have begun their journey with a full tank of fuel. >> miles, let me jump back in, this is brooke. you know, given this sort of jet, do we have any idea what kind of training a pilot or pilots on board this kind of lear jet 45 might have for scenarios like this one? >> well, you know this is the kind of -- these are the kinds of things you do train for in simulators. you obviously dont want do this in the real world except when you have to, right? so -- but as part of re...