Pilot John Cox explains what a flight engineer does -- and why they're no longer needed. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on America U.S. Politics Sports ...

One reader asks if it's possible for an onboard computer to be hacked by a phone. The captain responds. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on America ...

US investigators are examining a United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9’s flight-management computer after an incident in which the system’s displays apparently blanked before the aircraft ...

TOULOUSE, France – Thales provided details about its next generation flight management system (FMS), PureFlyt, which executives and avionics engineers here at its avionics headquarters explained ...

In documents submitted to the Colombian government, American Airlines said Flight 965’s two pilots tried to program the flight management computer to take them directly to Cali, Colombia, on the ...

A computer security expert hacked into a plane's in-flight entertainment system and made it briefly fly sideways by telling one of the engines to go into climb mode.

There is an academic portion to the training including systems knowledge, performance, flight-management computer practice, and then a test. This usually takes 10 days to two weeks for an initial ...

The Flight Management and Guidance Computer, programmed with the same route American Pacific always uses for this haul, has handled all the navigation, ...