Comments on: Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 7 https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/ THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE SITE FOR EVERYONE WHO FLIES Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: kf1989 https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/#comment-411980 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:19:41 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=30275#comment-411980 I was talking to a pilot last year who has flown all over. When asked where was the hardest place to understand ATC, he said Scotland. He was like, “Supposedly they speak English, but it can be difficult to tell!”

]]> By: Michael Kennedy https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/#comment-411448 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:15:18 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=30275#comment-411448 At Air LA we did Tijuana trips that landed at 9am and left after noon. There was no pilot “lounge” and we had to kill time in the terminal. Somehow one of our pilots got an invite to the tower and from that day on we hung out with the controllers. They were fun and spoke English better than some of our employees.

]]> By: Barry Gold https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/#comment-411182 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:55:12 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=30275#comment-411182 Re: Go-arounds: On one trip from LAX to SFO, we were on final(*) and suddenly the engines got much noisier and the plane tilted upward. Once things had settled down, the Captain got on the PA and explained: he spotted another plane on our assigned runway and did a go-around on his own initiative.

I might add that the sudden change in attitude was somewhat disconcerting to the semi-circulars.

That go-around added nearly 15 minutes to our travel time, but sure beats an on-the-ground crash!

(*) I assume, since the runway was visible to passengers in window seats

]]> By: Peter https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/#comment-411181 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:46:47 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=30275#comment-411181 Patrick, why does Roberto ask about moving seats in an aircraft for weight and balance when you already addressed in one of your answers?

]]> By: Patrick https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/#comment-410879 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:28:09 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=30275#comment-410879 In reply to Roberto.

Well that’s what I’m talking about in the post. They sometimes ask passengers to move forward or aft (never side to side) when the center of gravity tolerances are close. Unless you’re moving a large number of people, it really doesn’t make much difference, but technically the CG has to stay within a certain range.

]]> By: 757MAX https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/#comment-410767 Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:50:43 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=30275#comment-410767 Patrick, I have a question about the blog. Whatever happened to the Express Blog?

]]> By: Roberto https://askthepilot.com/questions-7/#comment-410763 Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:09:47 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=30275#comment-410763 Why does the flight crew sometimes ask passengers to change seats on the plane to ‘balance the weight on board’?
Thanks

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