A pre-solo flight student struggled with managing checklists and situational awareness during landings, leading to unsafe practices and instructor interventions. Using the GUMPS mnemonic and a flow ...
Stopping an airplane is no easy task, and although planes can use spoilers and thrust reversers to assist with the task, the brakes still do around 40% of the work. In simple terms, it's all about ...
Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Tempers often soar sky-high on airplanes—and that’s not just because of the cramped quarters, lack of an ...
Sleeping on an airplane is sometimes a must, especially for business travelers or those on late-night flights. While sitting in a metal tube hurtling through the air is nobody's preferred bedtime ...
When you gotta go, you gotta go–even at 30,000 feet. The alarming noise ensues when you press the “flush” button in an airplane toilet and the bowl’s contents are magically sucked away into oblivion.
They say it's about the journey, not the destination—but when air travel is involved, the journey can often be more difficult ...