: How does a pilot know where the airport is when he is flying to a particular destination for the first time in his life?
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You don’t need to know where the airport is. The plane has a navigational database and does the lateral navigation itself.
Unless you are flying VFR/VOR to VOR which is only done in older planes these days, the pilot themselves are flying the plane during take off and landing. Modern planes mostly navigate themselves to the location it is going.
There are, however, special airports that require special training and the pilot is required to fly to it from a certain position themselves, but pilots will be trained for that and only pilots with the qualifications for that airport can fly a plane there.
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