Aviation

A glass-cockpit corner of the site: field notes on aircraft, engines, and flight.

Primary Flight Display

Wings level, heading west.

Writing about the machines that fly: how the engines breathe, why the wings hold, and what the cockpit is really telling you. Cleared for the approach.

METAR VVTS sample · not live

VVTS 301230Z 21008KT 9999 FEW018 SCT040 32/24 Q1008 NOSIG

Wind 210° at 8 kt · visibility 10 km+ · few at 1,800 ft, scattered at 4,000 ft · 32 °C / dewpoint 24 °C · QNH 1008 hPa · no significant change. Archived sample for decoding practice.

Logbook

Field log

  1. flight aviation

    Dawn A320 hop, Cam Ranh to HCMC

    A window-seat log of a 6:00 AM A320 leg, phase by phase from pushback to short final. Notes from that flight seeded the aviation world’s write-up.