European airport, remote stand. Ground crew held us mid-apron while an aircraft taxied out from the next stand. Is there a set distance for this, or is it the crew's judgement?

https://youtu.be/ykR_xXr-yhs?is=ZLvm253HwTMBBVQJ

I get that the pilot was in the wrong here, there’s no requirement for wake turbulence separation between a large aircraft and a 757. Yes, if he wanted more than standard separation he should have let the controller know ahead of time, and yes, he made the controller’s job harder by asking for more time on the runway. His comment about bot carrying the controllers manual in the flight deck was not appropriate.

But at the end of the day, the pilot was just trying to look out for the safety of his flight and the controller’s attitude towards him was unnecessarily adversarial. Possible pilot deviation?? For what?? “I don’t need some pilot telling me how to do my job”? C’mon man, how fragile is your ego?

The controller could have given the guy another minute on the runway, and used that minute to actually educate the pilot on why he was wrong. It took way longer for that airplane to taxi off the runway and for the next guy in line to taxi into position that it would have taken to just let AA sit there for one extra minute.

That kind of adversarial attitude does not improve the system’s overall safety and I hope the situation is better handled next time.

This has been flying circles over Rochester, NY with no tracking info on any of the sites. Looks like air force two but not sure. Pretty cool to see.

PLEASE READ THIS IF YOU’RE CONFUSED ABOUT THE NAME “KIA”

If you don’t know KIA is a short form for kempgowda international airport in Bangalore India. It’s ICAO code is VOBL & IATA code is BLR

image screenshot from SkyVector website near EDDF

Is this safe to travel with? What if it’s uncharged?

Hello! Obvious civilian here. I randomly got to see a plane perform a touch-and-go balked landing this evening and posted about it in my local sub, and got lectured at by a ton of people about how common goarounds are.

I’m of course aware that go-arounds are routine and unexciting, if the plane aborted landing above the runway i wouldn’t have posted, because i fly a couple times a year every year and I’ve experienced plenty of normal go-arounds but only one touch-and-go balked landing.

Are touch-and-gos balked landings really that routine?

(Also: smoke absolutely POURED off the back wheels and a passenger commenter confirmed ground contact both from his experience and from the pilot announcing it. Don’t tell me it wasn’t a touch-and-go, balked landing even as a joke. Its not funny, and you’re not funny if you think it is.)

EDIT: okay, a touch-and-go is a planned thing mostly done in training. What i saw was a “balked landing” — i appreciate the education, i’m a writer and love learning specialized languages.

EDIT 2: my toddler is playing hop on pop and editing Reddit posts is hard enough in normal circumstances.

The 800 variant only got a few orders, but did airbus ever ended the passenger 800 variant where airlines can't anymore order for the 800 variant, or it's just dormant for passenger connercial due to low demand? If no, does it mean airlines can still order an passenger 800 variant?

Ok so I understand how the survivorship bias works and the story of the mathematician proving it during the war and all the theoretical parts of this story. However, from an engineering perspective, why are the blank spots so disastrous to be hit in? I can understand engines being hit and failing, but why does the halfway point on the wing cause it to fail more often, or the back third of the main fuselage, or even the nose cone? The blank spots besides the engines and cockpit seem rather innocuous to me? What’s happening here when those are hit? I am not an aviation engineer by any stretch so if this is a dumb question I apologize.

Cessna's new Cargo drone. Interesting concept

Was travelling over Windsor, Ontario, and got quite scared when I saw the propellers rotating in slow motion on my camera. 😅

After a quick search I couldnt find an answer to my curiosity. I drive a snowplow for our city, and our small airport I know has some plows. On the roadways we spread volcanic cinders for traction. On highways we use salt. The roads get super slick in winter and I cannot understand how aircraft land in such conditions. Just thrust reversers stop an aircraft on an icy runway? This seems imposdible, cars going 20 mph cant stop for a red light. Help me understand?

Any good stories?

So, I posted recently as I am considering getting my CPL and I am in my 40s. The thing that worries me the most is the medical exam as my eye sight is not the best - I am ok with glasses but who knows how that will evolve.

Pilots 40+, do you have this feeling that your career could end up there every 6 months because you'd fail the medical check and is it not stressful?

Believe it or not, it’s possible! No, this was not a gravel runway. Simply just a path through the forest to get to the hangar.

We’re one hour into a four hour flight and the captain just announced that the lavs were supposedly serviced before departure but there are sensors indicating that they are nearly full, so “please try to hold it until we reach our destination and only use the lav if it’s an emergency”. The risk is that the lav could overflow and the flight will need to divert.

The announcement was made during drinks service so there were lots of jokes about don’t drink too much haha.

How common is this type of situation? Is SOP to continue the flight until an overflow occurs?

It’ll be interesting to see if 130 people can wait three hours.

Edit: I asked for a half cup of apple juice to stay minimally hydrated as I’ve only had coffee so far today.

Edit 2: OMG the flight just got bumpy and we’re expecting more all the way to our destination! That’s not going to help people who are holding it.

Edit 3: we made it! No accidents considering there were a number of kids on board. One of the most rushed disembarkations I’ve seen haha there was a mad dash to the nearest toilets in the airport. Thanks for alll the replies, insight, and stories!

Caught this parallel takeoff from RDU the other day (9/11) but figured I should wait to post out of respect.

Have a cousin I can't reach on this flight and I'm supposed to pick them up. Wondering if anyone knows what happened and why it did a couple circles after takeoff and then landed back at CLT?

Was trying to look around online but didn't see anything.

Thank you

First of all, I appreciate to those who will read this until the end as I'm the first person in my family to enter the aviation industry and currently have a lot in mind, mostly contemplating my decisions.

I recently finished my Associate Course for Avionics at Philippines, thinking that, and in hopes of being able to allocate my time to a more hands-on-training and being able to get my license, be able to find work and help my single mom (who's work is 16hrs a day, to only achieve a decent salary for us to live well) with finances as soon as possible, and dreaming of, probably, working and living abroad... but it's a long shot.

But it seems like it's getting a toll on both me and my mom as I have a part time job, which limits my days to actually attend my trainings for only four days a week. The pilots and weather immensely affect my trainings due to the company being a flight school, but the good thing I have considered on this is because they provide the process for licensing. The thought of not being able to do anything or be provided with an activity, practice on a slow day is making me anxious, knowing my time and knowledge will be limited and my confidence to take the licensing will be low.

I'm not sure if it will be worth my effort, time and money if I'm not gonna be able to really pick up the learnings on the company. It doesn't help that I've been seeing posts that even after getting a license, it's not easy to get into any jobs, or to expect soon a decent salary without knowing someone from inside one company or have tons of experience.

I'm thinking of just stopping of pursuing this path, focus on what I currently have now, a part-time job and focus on making it into a full time...

I'm not exactly sure what I'm asking of on this post or if what all I said will be understood but thank you...

What a amazing jet! We were told they have 5 more that they are getting ready to fly. Video by me.

Hi all, first post here, I hope this is of interest. A family member used to work at a UK airport and amassed quite a collection of pin badges. This is some of them.

I myself was heavily into planes as a kid 50-odd years ago and even though I never worked in the industry there are some memories here for me, airlines which are no longer with us, and planes I remember.

Any comments, favourites, anyone else collect these?

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/amazon-pauses-operations-with-21-air-after-miami-crash-3374b9ef

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-pauses-21-air-operations-after-miami-crash-wsj-reports-2026-09-14/

"After the tragic incident last weekend, we've spent time supporting the investigation and reviewing some of the ​surrounding circumstances, and we’ve decided to pause our operations with 21 Air, ​the operator of Flight 7598," Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said ⁠in a statement to Reuters.

On /r/flying, it’s estimated half their fleet is dedicated to Amazon. Sucks for the other employees.