More details are emerging about yesterday’s in-flight freakout. Clayton Osbon, the flight captain whose erratic behavior forced an emergency landing in Texas, began “speaking incoherently” in the ...

Why can't aircraft controls be wholly automated so as to reduce, or completely do away with the hundreds of buttons in the cockpit? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

A new retrospective on the history of fighter jet cockpit controls moves through 65 years of analog, and later digital, evolution. Thanks to the computer processor and display technologies, pilots can ...

American F-16 Fighting Falcons are getting a new cockpit management unit (CMU) from Avalex as part of the U.S. Air Force’s mobile user objective system (MUOS) program to upgrade the so-called Viper.

In a chilling revelation from the preliminary investigation into last month’s tragic Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, authorities have zeroed in on a key cockpit component—the fuel control ...

Pilots have a demanding job, and are expected to take regular breaks to ensure their performance when it counts. However, two pilots for Indian airline SpiceJet were grounded recently after taking a ...