Odds & Ends
AeroSavvy’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
Once again, it’s time to find the perfect gift for your favorite young or old aviation fanatic. Here are my favorite picks for the 2014 holiday season!
Year: 2014
Odds & Ends
The Savvy Satellite Spotting Guide
Stare into space on a clear, dark night and you’ll see them. Tiny dots of light moving across the sky. Some appear for a minute or so, others take several minutes to move from horizon […]
Communication
Top 10 Coolest Airline Call Signs!
When pilots and air traffic controllers communicate on the radio, the airline’s call sign is always used along with the flight number; ex: “Delta 135.” This helps assure our communications are clear. Airlines began using call […]
Aircraft Systems
How Your Broken Plane Can Fly Safely: Part 1
As you relax sipping ginger-ale on your next flight, here’s something to ponder: The airplane you are riding in might have stuff broken. It might even have parts missing! Starting to lose that warm and fuzzy […]
Aircraft Systems
How Your Broken Plane Can Fly Safely: Part 2
In Part 1 (featured at NYCAviation.com), I talked about what happens when stuff on an airliner breaks while we sit at the gate. What do airline pilots do when there is a mechanical malfunction while airborne? Airliners […]
Aircraft Systems
Aviation’s Crazy, Mixed Up Units of Measure
One of the challenges of international flying is handling different units of measure in different countries. In aviation, the battle between imperial and metric units continues. Feet, meters, statute miles, nautical miles, inches of mercury, […]
Aircraft Systems
Hydraulics: Big Power In A Small Package!
Airliners have a lot of moving parts. The control surfaces, brakes, landing gear and many other components need a lot of power to move them. A very simple device is used to do much of the […]
Navigation
Come Along As We Cross the Pacific!
Join me on the flight deck as we fly across the Pacific! Head over to NYCAviation.com and I’ll show you how we prepare for an oceanic flight and what we do during the 8+ hour journey. Today, we […]
Aircraft Systems
Simulators – Ultimate Video Games!
At the heart of every airline training program is an amazing, multi-million dollar machine. A “Level D” aircraft simulator is the closest you can get to flying without leaving the ground. Costing close to $20 million […]
Odds & Ends
45th Anniversary of Apollo 11
45 years ago today on Sunday, July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two humans to step foot on another world. Watch the CBS News […]