By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations Most passengers think oxygen masks dropping means something is about to go terribly wrong. It doesn�t. In fact, rapid decompression is one of the most survivable emergencies in aviation�if the system works the way it was designed. But in the first … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations “So the airplane autopilot basically flies the whole thing, right? The pilots just sit there?” I have heard this question more times than I can count�from friends, family, and passengers who assume that modern automation has made pilots redundant. The short … Read more
\n\n\n\n\n By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations \n\n The pilot’s voice came over the radio, calm but clipped: “Incheon Tower, we had a bird strike on takeoff roll. Continuing departure. Will advise.” I checked the flight tracking display. The aircraft was climbing normally. Altitude, speed, heading�all exactly … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations You have seen the videos. A commercial aircraft approaching a runway sideways, nose pointed 20 degrees off the centerline, wings rocking, the whole thing looking like a controlled disaster. Then�impossibly�the pilot straightens out at the last second, plants the wheels on … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations Cabin pressure airplane effects begin the moment the doors close. You are cruising at 35,000 feet. Outside your window, the temperature is -56�C. The air pressure is roughly one quarter of what it is at sea level. The oxygen level would … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations It is 2 AM. The OCC is quiet. Most of the day-shift dispatchers have gone home. But on my screens, dozens of aircraft are crossing the night sky�Seoul to Bangkok, Incheon to Manila, Gimhae to Tokyo. Night flights are in the … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations June 2025. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a volcano on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, erupted with an ash column that shot 11 kilometers into the sky. The mushroom-shaped cloud was visible from 150 km away. Dozens of volcanic ash flights … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations A friend once texted me mid-flight: “There’s a loud thunk under the plane. Are we going to die?” I texted back after she landed: “That was the landing gear. You were never in danger. You were hearing the airplane doing exactly … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations Here is something most passengers do not know: every single commercial flight I have ever planned�every one of the tens of thousands I have dispatched in 15 years�was planned with the assumption that an engine might fail. Not because engine failure … Read more
By Aeruxo � Licensed flight dispatcher (study guide) | 15+ Years in Airline Operations You have been descending for twenty minutes. You felt the landing gear drop�that reassuring thunk. Through the window, you can see the runway. Houses, cars, the airport fence. You are almost there. You tighten your seatbelt. Ten more seconds and you … Read more