What will airlines have to do to prepare planes parked during the coronavirus crisis to return to service? Capt. John Cox explains.
Author: John Cox, Special to USA TODAY
Ask the Captain: Why can I hear the flight attendant’s PA fine but not the pilot’s?
Why are the flight attendant’s PA announcements easier to hear than the captain’s? Do airports ever clean up the rubber left behind by aircraft tires?
Ask the Captain: What are airlines doing to sanitize planes and airports?
Captain John Cox explains how airlines have stepped up their cleaning regimens for aircraft and airports to keep more people from becoming sick.
Ask the Captain: How can adults protect babies from coronavirus while traveling?
Capt. John Cox answers questions about whether to cancel travel to Asia and what can be done to protect babies from
coronavirus while flying.
Ask the Captain: What is ice fog? Is it dangerous for planes to fly through it?
This week, retired US Airways pilot John Cox explains ice fog, or supercooled droplets that form fog when the temperature is below 32℉.
Ask the Captain: Why is the ‘black box’ put back in water following a plane crash at sea?
This week, Capt. John Cox answers your questions about recovering data from the “black box” and why planes turn at very low altitudes.
Ask the Captain: How do flight crews celebrate the holidays? Do they have any traditions?
Retired US Airways pilot John Cox looks back on his most memorable Christmases while flying and reveals how flight crews celebrate the holidays.
Ask the Captain: Choosing between Airbus and Boeing ‘like picking a favorite child’
Retired US Airways pilot John Cox discusses the pros and cons of Boeing and Airbus planes and what the 737 Max grounding means for future aircraft.
Ask the Captain: What area of commercial aviation needs the most reform?
Pilots must be to adapt to increasingly complex airspace, in increasingly complex planes while maintaining the ability to fly and navigate manually.
Ask the Captain: Can pilots request a different runway? How do they train for new airports?
John Cox answers questions about whether pilots can request a different runway than the one assigned and how they train to fly into new airports.