AV Web
MARCH 30, 2025
Airport police briefly took away a man’s kite after reports that it was hit by a United Airlines Boeing 737 on short final for Washington Reagan Airport on Saturday. When Runway 19 is the active, aircraft landing go over the popular recreation area at about 100 feet AGL.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
The long journey from home on the East Coast was a long one indeed—almost nine hours of airliner travel in a nondirect way from Boston via Atlanta on a memorable 757-200 for me. The terrain reaches well over 4,000 feet agl, so a good vertical rise is seen. You can pop right in by initiating a flight right at 5,000 feet agl.
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Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
Our NIFA team of pilots would travel to other colleges and compete in sanctioned competition involving precise navigation, pre-flight inspections, accuracy landings, and simulated bomb drops into a barrel from 100 AGL feet using bean bags as bombs. I desperately wanted to get beneath the clouds and at the same time build up excess airspeed.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 22, 2025
The requirement applies to private, commercial, and airline transport pilots, as well as flight engineers and navigators who fly internationally. You may pilot aircraft with a Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW) of 1320 pounds, carry no more than one passenger, and fly only during the daytime up to 10,000 feet MSL (or 2,000 AGL).
AV Web
JUNE 24, 2025
But it’s a futile one, since you aren’t building a Level-D airline-grade sim. That’s where your sim’s value really starts to shine. But It Still Doesn’t Feel Right Many detractors will point out that simming at home doesn’t feel like the real thing, so what’s the point? Again, this thinking is misguided.
AV Web
APRIL 15, 2025
Airlines of all flags have shared woes recently. Business aircraft operate like quasi-airlines, blazing creative trails to folly. The pilot reported that he was too high and fast crossing the threshold 70 feet above ground level (AGL) at 90 mph. Thats FA tenacity.
Flight Training Central
MARCH 18, 2024
The level of control goes from zero in some areas to considerable control around congested, big city, airports that serve considerable airline traffic. Class B Airspace typically takes on the shape of an upside down wedding cake and extends to 10,000′ Class B airports typically accommodate a high volume of airline traffic.
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