Modern cockpit doors are designed to stop hijackers from reaching the pilots, but the emergency involving a flydubai flight has highlighted the difficulty of responding when the threat is already insi ...

It’s a legend immortalized in the 1964 flick “Fate is the Hunter”: An airline pilot is enjoying a coffee and accidentally spills the piping-hot liquid on the cockpit’s crucial electronic components.

Thanks to the seemingly unstoppable advance of electronic and mechanical devices, aircraft manufacturers are constantly upgrading the cockpit environment and the passenger cabin, making flying the ...

Flydubai incident highlights potential for an insider attack ...

The Twin Otter Classic 300, now with Garmin G1000NXi avionics. Credit: De Havilland Aircraft Business aircraft orders, deliveries and revenue continue to improve year over year despite the pressures ...

The increasing complexity and cost of modern aircraft make maintaining pilot proficiency challenging, advocating for cockpit-specific flight simulators as a practical and safer alternative to ...

The FAA now mandates the installation of secondary physical barriers on the flight decks of all newly manufactured commercial aircraft. This rule aims to prevent unauthorized intrusion when the main ...

Airbus Defence and Space has taken the wraps off its fighter cockpit of tomorrow that it's helping to develop as part of Europe's Enhanced Pilot Interfaces & Interactions for Fighter Cockpit (EPIIC) ...