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One of the most frustrating ATC exchanges I have heard

Let me set it up for you: Swiss air 1311 experience bird strike after take off and declares an emergency. Russian ATC is seemingly oblivious at how to handle an emergency and makes a stressful situation even more so by pestering the pilots for unnecessary information. Once on the ground, engines shut down, the pilot [...]

A full service tower

With all these accidents taking place in aviation nowadays, it’s nice to hear a success story every once in a while.

Last September a young Cessna 172 pilot was talked down by ATC at an airport in the United States after three failed landing attempts. NPR has an interview with the controller who helped the young [...]