The callout from the pilots like "LOC blue" serves to remind themselves of the current flight guidance modes, and to maintain awareness of mode changes. This is also to ensure that their mental idea of "what the aircraft will do next" is up to date and fits to the current flight situation.
Named after the wish “Blue Skies and Tailwinds” that all pilots give each other blessing them with safe travels as they navigate where the birds fly.
Aviators often speak “pilot English” to avoid miscommunications over radio transmission. “Tree” for instance, means three, “fife” is the number five and “niner” means nine, says Tom Zecha, a manager at AOPA. The variations stemmed from a desire to avoid confusion between similar-sounding numbers, he says.
Not only is blue a calming color, but it represents competence, dependability and intelligence — all attributes you'll want your airplane, and crew, to have. Among different cultures, blue and green are also almost unanimously associated with peace, according to Boeing.
There is NO speed protection when the auto-thrust indication (A/THR), on the Flight Mode Annunciator (FMA), is blue, meaning that the A/THR is not active.
The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they have a situation that is urgent, but for the time being, does not pose an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself.
The A380 designation was a break from previous Airbus families, which had progressed sequentially from A300 to A340. It was chosen because the number 8 resembles the double-deck cross section, and is a lucky number in some Asian countries where the aircraft was being marketed.
From 3 March 2020, ADS-B data collected by satellite was made available to all users. Aircraft located using satellite data are coloured blue on the map, and yellow if located by terrestrial receivers.
Flights currently tracked via satellite-based ADS-B will have blue icons. When clicking on a flight tracked by satellite, you'll be able to learn more about the particular data source and see additional flight tracking details.
People tend to get anxious before getting on a flight, and the color blue is regarded as a calming color. Airlines use the color to instill confidence and calmness in their passengers – to reduce their stress level.
When a pilot uses the phrase “heavy,” he is reminding ATC that his aircraft is large and requires more separation between it and the aircraft following.
Charlie-Charlie is a fancy substitution for a standard affirmative. It comes from the convention of abbreviating Correct/Yes by letter C in codes. It was early standardized and used at sea since 1857.
Make shortly after landing, once the engine noise has subsided. “Ladies and gentlemen, [Airline Name] welcomes you to [city]. The local time is [time]. For your safety and the safety of those around you, please remain seated with your seat belt fastened and keep the aisle(s) clear until we are parked at the gate.
A pilot reports "no joy" when an attempt to establish visual or radio contact with another aircraft is unsuccessful; or when an attempt to acquire a target - either visually or on tactical radar - is unsuccessful.
Alpha, Bravo, Charli, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, PaPa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. Pilots pronounce numbers similar to regular English, with a few exceptions: The number three (3) is pronounced “tree.”
Just say “have a nice flight” will do, or you can get poetic and say “blue skies and tail-winds for you!”
Commercial aircraft were assigned numbers in the 700s. The first plane might well have been named the 700, but it just didn't sound right to the marketing Mad Men of the era. “Seven-oh-seven” sounded sexier — with a ring like “double-oh-seven.” The naming tradition's been carried down over the decades.
The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner in the world, with Emirates as its biggest customer. However, Airbus stopped production of the jumbo jet at the end of 2021 due to low demand from carriers.
With a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes (705 short tons), the An-225 held several records, including heaviest aircraft ever built and largest wingspan of any aircraft in operational service.
Convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row during the initial emergency declaration ("Mayday mayday mayday") to prevent it being mistaken for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual mayday call from a message about a mayday call.
Owing to the difficulty of distinguishing the letter “S” by telephone, the international distress signal “S.O.S.” will give place to the words “May-day”, the phonetic equivalent of “M'aidez”, the French for “Help me.”
The distress call Mayday may be used only if the boat is threatened by grave and imminent danger – for example, sinking or on fire – and immediate assistance is required.
Flights currently tracked via satellite-based ADS-B will have blue icons. When clicking on a flight tracked by satellite, you'll be able to learn more about the particular data source and see additional flight tracking details.
From 3 March 2020, ADS-B data collected by satellite was made available to all users. Aircraft located using satellite data are coloured blue on the map, and yellow if located by terrestrial receivers.
Around Class B airspace is an area called the Mode C Veil. It is shown as a thin blue concentric line of 30 Nautical Mile radius around the Class B airport. An altitude reporting Transponder (Mode C) is required within this area and when operating under the floor or above the ceiling of the Class B airspace.