The Last Plane In America With An Analog Cockpit

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was the last American-built aircraft to feature an analog cockpit. The aircraft entered ...
Avionics International

The Software-Defined Cockpit Takes Control

If one avionics trend is set to dominate 2026, it is the decisive shift from hardware-led cockpit upgrades to ...
Flying

Which Cockpit Seat Should Be Used for Solo Flight?

There is no Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) that specifies which seat a solo pilot must occupy in a side-by-side airplane. Flight school rules, such as "solo flight from left seat only," are ...
UPI

Southwest Airlines takes first flight with secondary cockpit barrier

Sept. 1 (UPI) --Southwest Airlines has become one of the first U.S. carriers to take flight with an added barrier to protect pilots from intrusions when they exit the cockpit. Southwest took delivery ...
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Voices from the cockpit: CVR recovered from AI 171 wreckage; key to unravelling final moments of Ahmedabad-London flight

AHMEDABAD: The Cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, was recovered from the debris, a govt release informed on Sunday ...
KTVU

Airbus orders A320 fixes following flight-control incident

Airbus ordered fixes on a large number of A320-family aircraft after discovering that intense solar radiation can corrupt data essential to flight-control systems. The recall may cause travel ...