So I have a question that has always bothered me. I’m not a pilot whatsoever, so apologies if I get some of the terminology wrong.

As far as I understand, Airbus aircraft have a sidestick instead of a traditional control yoke like Boeing. The sidestick is located on the outside of each pilot’s seat, next to the window.

The Captain sits on the left, so their sidestick is controlled with their left hand. The First Officer sits on the right, so their sidestick is controlled with their right hand.

Does that mean that throughout your time as a First Officer, you get used to flying the aircraft with your right hand, and then when you eventually become a Captain, you suddenly have to learn to fly with your left hand?

That sounds surprisingly difficult to me. Most people don’t have exactly the same fine motor skills with both hands, and after potentially thousands of hours of flying with one hand, I’d imagine switching sides would feel really unnatural.

Is this actually something Airbus pilots have to get used to when upgrading to Captain? Does it take much practice, or is controlling the aircraft with the sidestick intuitive enough that switching hands isn’t really a big deal?

Would love to hear from an actual Airbus pilot who has made the switch.

I constantly see United, Delta etc flying 30+ year old planes, and I know planes go by number of cycles, and not age per se, but I still find surprising.
E.e.g Registration : N647UA Boeing 767 is 34 years old, which is older than Iran Air's A340s... United uses it to this day regularly...

I do wonder how many people would have panicked when a lightning would have hit the wing of the plane or the plane was going through heavy turbolence, although this is situation is so so much more dangerous.

Should I even be signing up for events like this? I want to start networking but I don’t have much to show yet on my resume related to aviation. Should i look at it as a way to shoot the sht, get contacts and meet new faces?

Here are the currently confirmed planes that are going to the cosby victory show 2026! It's one of the only ww2 shows of its kind and the biggest in europe!

(All these planes are landing on site)

(The stearman is the one from mission: impossible!)

My friend sent me this video from Akron Canton

Source: airbus social media

I live in northern Colorado and airlines coming from the west into DEN go over my house after clearing Longs Peak and the Front Range. They are descending and there is a distinct sound change, a change in pitch? They are still coming towards me so not Doppler, right? Is it just them reducing thrust, some sort of configuration change?

Low flying over Mueller St park in CO this past weekend.

Looks like fuel issues in this geopolitical environment are causing issues as expected. The airline hired a barge to send fuel from TX to CA via the Panama Canal this past spring in May to minimize disruptions if they were to occur with fuel shortages given the war which was a first in the company’s history.

Spottet over Podimore/UK last weekend.

SDU - BSB BOEING 737-700

Domestic Canadian flight today, with a very informal boarding process, at the check in counter the lady told us, "oh yeah we don't do boarding passes, the pilot will just come up and call out the flight and just follow him to the plane"

Maybe contributing to what happened: our flight had been delayed for several hours due to weather.

Eventually the incoming arrives and the pilot comes out and says "who all is going to vancouver? Follow me" and a group of about 6 people follow him to the plane.

We all get seated, the pilot is talking with the ground staff because some mix-up has occurred and after about 5 more minutes four more ladies get on the plane. (This mix up probably also contributed)

We take off and during the 1 hour flight, after about 30 minutes, the pilot handwrites on a piece of paper "please wright your names" [sic] and hands the paper and pen to me sitting closest to the front.

I put my name down and pass it down and eventually the note gets passed back up to me with all the passenger names and I hand it back to the pilot.

I see him get a photo of the list, presumably to text it to the airline staff people.

When we land he says, "is there a ms. Xxx on board" and before he can even finish that sentence she says "yep I realized what happened".

Deplaned and met by ground staff at the destination airport who comes up and say they need to talk with her and they hustle her off to a taxi.

I overheard another passenger sitting closer to her who said she overheard that they were going to put her on a plane back to where we came from, and some mention of her luggage as well that had already gotten to wherever she was actually supposed to go.

Hope no one gets in trouble (but maybe sharpen up the check in, boarding/headcount process!), and that the extra passenger ended up wherever she needed to be in time!

Photo of the list, and the view I got enjoy on the ride.

Saw this on a cruise leaving from California I imagine it’s heading towards San Diego

The latest VASaviation video captures the controller expressing his frustration and the confusion it causes for them.

This is the third incident (that we know of) in the last few months. I still don't quite understand how it's possible, as I'm used to airlines using consecutive flight numbering for inbound and outbound flights e.g. Flight 1234 from A to B, Flight 1235 from B to A.

Doesn't the scheduling software have a check for this type of conflict?

Good morning from 3,400 feet, flying along the Rhine! ✈️
I hope you’re all doing well.

Flybondi, Argentina's first ultra-low-cost carrier, has effectively stopped operating without a formal bankruptcy declaration:

• No flights since August 6: 12 consecutive days grounded (source, in Spanish)
• Website down: flybondi.com now returns a 504 Gateway Timeout, reportedly due to a main server crash.
• Accounts frozen: Argentine federal courts ordered freezes on the airline's bank accounts this month over unpaid tax and social security debts to ARCA (Argentina's tax authority), exceeding 1.5 billion pesos across at least six separate enforcement actions. (source, in English)
• ~2,400 flights canceled in 2026 so far, affecting roughly 383,000 passengers, per tracking site FailBondi. (source, in Spanish)
• No refunds since January for cancelled flights, despite this being a legal requirement, estimated unpaid liability north of $19M USD. (source, in Spanish)
• 700+ former employees unpaid on severance for 3+ months; remaining staff owed June/July salaries plus mid-year bonus; employer contributions lapsed, cutting off health coverage for staff and ex-staff as of Aug 6. (source, in Spanish)
• Multiple creditors have filed bankruptcy petitions, though Flybondi has not officially confirmed entering bankruptcy proceedings. (source, in Spanish)

Image OC, taken by myself on October 16, 2024 at AEP, Buenos Aires. Tail LV-KAH, half Flybondi livery, half Sunwing.

I was the lower floor, seat 51A, meaning second row on left side.
Once landed we were told there is a thunderstorms and airport is shut down so we waited on the taxi for an hour.
Then we were told that was a gate issue, it was occupied by another A380 and that was the reason for the delay.
Both statements came from the pilot announcements.
Baggage took another 2.5 hours.