Hey guys, i am doing my first vfr navigation on monday with my instructor. We have been asked to prepare an approach/arrival briefing by using the chart of the destination airport. I never did such a thing and need your help to build a nice scheme to brief the procedure clearly and correctly. Can you help me please ? Thank you in advance !

My understanding is a narrow body vs wide body makes a lot of sense domestically since the planes are much lighter (requiring less fuel) and can be run at a higher frequency which is better for business travel.

Why haven’t we seen long haul narrow bodies? Is it that the fuel weight necessitates a bigger airframe anyway? Does it have to do with gate availability? Passenger comfort? Or something else.

It would seem with the rise of LR variants of the A320 and A220 type products that long haul may start to be within reach for narrow bodies.

I don’t have any family/friends who are pilots but I want to get my license to be able to fly for fun— not looking to make it a full-time job. How did you guys go about finding a good school for instruction? Are schools flexible with your time commitments or is it dedicated like dental or nursing school where you must commit a certain amount of hours every week ? Are there different pilot licenses as well like for driving?

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Was it an airplane at some point?

Yesterday I took the Army's SIFT exam for helicopter pilot training. I passed with a 67, which is a decent score. Now I've got to get a flight physical done, go to MEPS, and do warrant officer candidate school, etc.

(I don't expect everyone here to know what Army Aviation schools consist of, but I'm going to ask anyway. Any advice would be helpful.)

My question is, what does academic and pen-and-paper flight school consist of? Not specifically the "flying" portion where you enter an aircraft (probably a Robinson 22 or something like that) and learn how to fly. I'm asking about the academics of flight school. What is the curriculum like? Should I study up on the FAA handbook for flying a helicopter? Should I study fixed Wing flight too?

Again, your answers don't need to be Army&specific. Any advice on what to expect academically in flight school would be helpful. Looking forward to reading your answers!

No info on the Museums official website of the MiG29. On the few Facebook posts of theirs featuring it, there’s no origin info either.

Antonov airlines comes to CLT (my home airport) quite often and we also get a lot of large military aircraft like the C130. I’m not sure how these compare to the B747-800 or A380 but if they are of similar size then I think that is proof that our runways and taxiways can handle B747-800s and A380s. But in order for service with the two airliners to begin out of CLT which i sincerely hope happens, the airport just need to build a few gates that can handle A380s and B747-800s that also have the technology for B787s. That is how you make CLT a major international hub and I hope this is on the table for the future of the airport. But I want to see what you guys think.

From my understanding Embraer was a small company funded by the Brazilian government yet they manage to compete in a market with titans like Boeing,Bombardier,Dassault and Airbus. Brazil is a developing country with relatively less engineers yet they still manage to dominate the regional jet market. Even a powerhouse like China struggles to sell planes in that market.Even in Military aviation they are making strides with the C-390 with multiple countries it instead of the C-130J. So what is it that the Brazilians did that countries around the world fail to do so?

Edit:Sorry for bad grammar English is not my first language

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Thinking of visiting Paris airshow next year, is it worth it public days. I'm more into passenger jets then military etc, will they be there? Can you go inside of them

Picture taken by me on the 26/10/24 Aircraft: Concorde Tail number: G-BOAC Location: Manchester Airport, United Kingdom

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