Confusion Radio Communications for Beginners: in which One One X-Ray gets slightly confused coming into Muenster/Osnabrueck, with subtitles and background laughter by Steve Paul. I have to say this is also a great example of why a controller should be able to switch into the native language to try to help a clearly confused new…
Read more… 8 Mar 13
This week, I want to share with you a collection of close calls (each with a happy ending) collected from around the Internet. The FAA are investigating this video of a stunt aircraft coming dangerously close to people on the ground. A commenter who claims to have been on site when the video was filmed…
Read more… 25 Jan 13
Some times, there’s just too many fun links to get down to work. Here’s a collection of new websites I was reading / watching when I should have been writing you a new post… Landing short and checking out my balance in my Wild West Aircraft Highlander (Just Aircraft) Rockwell Collins brings head-up flying to…
Read more… 9 Nov 12
This week there were so many interesting things in the news, the best thing that I could do was gather them all together for you to enjoy them with me. Felix Baumgartner’s 23-Mile-High Skydive Aborted Due To Wind | Popular Science 12:27am MDT – Thompson in response to a journalist’s question about syncing the delay…
Read more… 12 Oct 12
This week: a collection of aviation news that turned out well. I find it terribly disconcerting to see a large plane doing a wheelie: Photos: Airbus A310-325/ET Aircraft Pictures | Airliners.net CS-TKN (cn 624) This month of November had been really good for us spotters, with so many different things coming by!! Not being a…
Read more… 24 Aug 12
This week: a collection of news and views from the Web that I think you will find interesting. Don’t forget that if you want to see interesting Aviation links throughout the week, you can subscribe to Fear of Landing on Facebook for automatic updates. This looked like a pretty slick landing to me until the…
Read more… 20 Jul 12
Last week, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission, formed by the Government of Nepal to investigate the accident of 9N-AME on the 24th of July 2024, released their final report. There’s…
On the 12th of June 2025, a Boeing 787-8, registered in India as VT-ANB, was operating as flight Air India 171 for a passenger flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick.…
This is not an article that I ever thought I would feel compelled to write! However, given the confusion over a photograph chosen in a regional English paper, apparently it’s…
There are a number of reasons why you might need to quickly point out the differences between a General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon and a Eurofighter EF2000 Typhoon. You might…
This video of a mid-air wheel exchange goes viral once a year or so, but I never get tired of watching it. Last week, it showed up on Reddit and…
This week, we have a guest post by J.B. Rivard who wrote an article for the American Aviation Historical Society (AAHS) and used one of my articles as a reference.…
I’m here, defeated but not yet horizontal, the victim of a relentless summer cold that feels like the universe’s revenge for something I can’t even remember. If I don’t make…
It seems a good time for something a bit more lighthearted. After weeks of analyzing serious incidents and technical failures, I thought I could a moment to appreciate aviation humuor…