Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Key Takeaways Power-off stalls mimic a stall during the flight’s approach and landing phase. On final approach, it can be the difference between recovering and crashing. We practice power-off stalls to help us identify the signs of a stall and the characteristics of your airplane when it stalls. Why should this matter to you?

Descent

CFI Academy

MARCH 28, 2025

For the FAA Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) Airplane Single Engine (ASE) checkride, the demonstration stalls are specific maneuvers that you, as a CFI candidate, must perform and explain to demonstrate your instructional knowledge and ability. Perform at a safe altitude (typically 3,000 feet AGL or higher) to demonstrate safely.

Aileron

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Above 10,000 feet MSL , excluding areas at and below 2,500 feet AGL. You can say: Approach, confirm squawk code for N123AB? You should say something like: You: Approach, N123AB, negative. The FAA requires transponders in certain types of airspace. If you plan to fly in: Group I Terminal Control Area (TCA).

Transponder

Flying Magazine

JUNE 5, 2025

Airport At an elevation of 1,206 feet agl, Carroll County Airports 3,554-feet-long-by-75-feet-wide runway sticks out amongst the rural area that immediately surrounds it. The runway and the surrounding apron area were repaved in late 2022, and there is an RNAV (GPS) approach on both ends.

Runway

Flight Training Central

JUNE 20, 2025

Does the elevator of a T-tail airplane buffet as the main wing approaches a stall? The minimum flight visibility required for VFR flights above 10,000 feet MSL and more than 1,200 feet AGL in controlled airspace is 5 miles. 180°-359° magnetic. 0°-179° true. 080° magnetic. No Yes, but only when flaps are extended Yes Correct!

VOR

Air Facts

JUNE 30, 2025

In aviation, there are memorable firsts too: that first flight when you catch the flying bug; the first solo, slipping the surly bonds all by yourself; your first VFR flight plan that unexpectedly ends up in IMC; or your first precision approach where you spot the runway right at minimums. I have my own memorable aviation firsts.

Weather

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Absolute altitude measures height above ground, which is critical during approaches and landings. Absolute Altitude The vertical distance of the aircraft above ground level (AGL), which is true altitude minus terrain elevation. Radio or radar altimeters measure absolute altitude, usually up to 2,500 feet AGL.

Density Altitude

Flying Magazine

JULY 25, 2025

Fly the airplane you will or do fly in reality. Focus on maintaining consistent altitudes and airspeeds, as well as stable approaches. Establish the aircraft’s best glide speed, pick the best field, run your emergency checklist , declare an emergency and fly the approach. Then try it right after takeoff at 500 feet agl.

Cockpit

AV Web

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The airplane was even able to taxi off the runway and to the ramp under its own power. Your second reactionwhich actually should be part of the initial oneshould be to establish the best engine-out glide airspeed and ensure the airplane is aerodynamically clean: gear and flaps up, cowl flaps closed. Or all three.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

Our training for the instrument ticket focused on flying by reference to instruments, how to shoot approaches, holds, etc. Your approach speed is an essential precursor to a good landing, even—or, perhaps, especially—for an instrument pilot. Transition training should focus on exploring the airplane’s speed envelope.

Approach

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

While hover taxing on the taxiway, NTSB reports, a Cessna airplane taxied onto the same taxiway. As he approached the herd, with the intention of driving the cattle into the corral, the bull departed and headed toward an area covered with heavy mesquite brush. at Marana, Arizona, on 2021s first day. Im roped in, Sam.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

MAY 27, 2025

There was an overcast at 1,300 agl (1,850 msl), but no precipitation and good visibility below the clouds. READ MORE: Wildcat Approaches: Anti-Authority Attitude Goes Away Departure gave him a nudge: N66BK, are you on frequency? The airplane stops climbing, begins to descend, and may fly under control into the terrain.

Pilot

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

Danger lurks in circling approaches Air Facts Journal the circling approach maneuver is designed as a last resort, non-precision approach. The very first question that should pop up into our head during a circling approach is “Why are we circling in the first place”? The n ext one is “What are our other options?”

Approach

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

But if I was going VFR over strange territory, I would want lots more than 1,000 feet agl. It wasn’t a big deal, but after a long week at EAA AirVenture and a long day in the airplane, the detour wasn’t appreciated. The 1,000-foot en route ceiling means that approach minimums never come into question. That’s what Plan B is for.

Airplanes

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

If you’ve arrived at a non-towered airport recently, especially one with a busy flight school, you may have heard another airplane announce something to the effect of “overhead for the teardrop entry.” This is not an instrument procedure, but rather a way to enter the traffic pattern when approaching from the opposite side of the runway.

Crosswind

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A pilot needs to control the airplane in a manner that the wings support the weight of the airplane as long as practical to minimize stresses imposed on the landing gear by a rough surface or to prevent sinking into a soft surface. The approach for the soft-field landing is similar to the normal approach.

Approach

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 7, 2024

The companion datalink traffic feature took a little longer to reach maturity, requiring your airplane to be equipped with an ADS-B Out transponder to get the full traffic picture. That limitation is now in the past since nearly every airplane flying in busy and high-altitude airspace is ADS-B out equipped.

Turbulence

Air Facts

MARCH 28, 2025

Buffalo Hunting With Airplanes Air Facts Journal This is not a Wild West story involving Buffalo Bill. Those puffs were airbursts containing shell fragments that could cripple an airplane, or worse, wound or kill the crew. The post Buffalo Hunting With Airplanes appeared first on Air Facts Journal. A DC130 carrying a Firebee.

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

It can also be dangerous when the learner drops the airplane to fly the checklist or radio, so practice in the ATD is often a good way to learn procedures, as the ATD is a CFI-controlled environment. To get the most out of the scenario, the learner should use the same procedures in the airplane. It’s an ATD. What could go wrong?

Crosswind

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Both apps have all the features and capabilities to feel right at home in the cockpit of a student pilot learning to fly, while simultaneously meeting the needs of professional pilots flying turbine airplanes. In the air, theyll notify when approaching Class, B, C or D airspace, a TFR or the Washington, D.C.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

FAA weather charts can help for higher altitudes but when just a few thousand feet agl, they may be less useful. Airspeed was approaching VMO. Anything in the airplane not tied down floated, even dust from the flight deck carpet, then slammed to the nearest surface moments later as we were caught by the next wave.

Turbulence

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

There was no point in trying another approach, and we’d already checked the alternate airport’s weather on the way in, which was equally bad. If you have 10 miles of clear air in all directions, you might be comfortable flying at 2,000 feet agl, but not with 3 to 5 miles of restricted visibility. Now, where to go?

Weather

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

That’s why the fresh approach Cirrus took to its next model in the SR series makes a lot of sense. Stephen Yeates] A Beginner’s Mind When you must approach something from a fresh perspective, it helps to go into a beginner’s mindset. But how to do so when you’ve known the airplane since its early development years, as I have?

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

The airplane was his 1964 Cessna 172 E, white with blue and yellow trim. Approaching their destination, the pilot asked Memphis Center ATC for an airport weather report. For a non-instrument-rated pilot in an airplane not equipped for instrument flight, the blanket of white was unflyable. The passenger texted.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It typically begins at 1200 feet AGL but can start lower in some locations. The 1200-Foot Rule Usually, Class E airspace starts at 1200 feet Above Ground Level (AGL). The 700-Foot Exception In some cases, Class E can begin as low as 700 feet AGL to offer support for instrument approaches.

Airspace Classes

Northstar VFR

JANUARY 4, 2023

But now, while flying in low visibility and overcast cloud layers, you have to rely on your instrumentation more than ever before and keep your eyes inside the airplane. Flight planning becomes more advanced than before, flying SIDs and STARs, and instrument approaches. B) For a n on-precision approach procedure.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

The airplane was his 1964 Cessna 172 E, white with blue and yellow trim. Approaching their destination, the pilot asked Memphis Center ATC for an airport weather report. For a non-instrument-rated pilot in an airplane not equipped for instrument flight, the blanket of white was unflyable. The passenger texted.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 11, 2024

There are phases of flight when it’s critical that you know how to handle the airplane at slower speeds. Departure and arrival are two of the most critical phases of a flight and involves flying the airplane slow while being very close to the ground. When an airplane exceeds its critical angle of attack, an aerodynamic stall happens.

Checkride

Air Facts

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As briefed, we launched and headed to and entered one of our low-level training routes to fly tactical formation (below) at 500 feet AGL and 480 knots. When that pilot reported everything was OK, another pilot was directed to give his airplane the once-over. I then pulled the Alternate Gear Handle and felt the gear drop into position.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

There was no point in trying another approach, and we’d already checked the alternate airport’s weather on the way in, which was equally bad. If you have 10 miles of clear air in all directions, you might be comfortable flying at 2,000 feet agl, but not with 3 to 5 miles of restricted visibility. Now, where to go?

Weather

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

It only takes a 10% increase in approach speed to increase the landing roll by 20%. These obstacles frequently affect the approach and missed approach paths. Plan your approach path carefully to eliminate large pitch and power changes. x V SO (or POH recommendation) by around 500 feet AGL.

Weight-Shift-Control

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

As you approach the airport, monitor UNICOM for landing or departing traffic. Another performance factor is the approach speed. The slower the approach, the shorter the landing distance. Many aircraft have specific recommended normal and short-field approach speeds. It will allow you to fine-tune your approach.

NOTAMs

NAFI

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Hand-fly an approach to 200 AGL? In every situation where there's a statutory minimum, there is an operation, an airplane, and most importantly, a pilot where flying to minimums is a low risk. The regulations, it turns out, are pretty permissive. Fly with a CFI for exactly 1.0 every 24 months?

AGL

Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Fly at least 1,500 above ground level (AGL) to allow room for recovery in case you stall the aircraft. For a greater margin of safety, select an altitude that leaves you 1,500 feet AGL after recovery from a stall. So, if you’re inexperienced or out of practice, consider starting at 3,000 feet AGL.

Lift

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This information is vital for determining cloud ceilings, especially during landing approaches. When these happen, they’ll usually call for an instrument approach. This can get you in a lot of trouble, especially during approaches. OVC010CB : Overcast layer of cumulonimbus clouds at 1,000 feet AGL.

Altimeter

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This standard procedure spells out how youll approach, enter, and exit the airspace around the airport. Final approach: This is the straight path leading to your landing. Straight-in approaches or improper entry points often cause conflicts with other aircraft already in the pattern. What are the parts of a traffic pattern?

Pilot

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 31, 2024

All VOR service volumes begin at 1,000 ft AGL, as signals below this altitude are unreliable and can cause confusion and incorrect indications. The small service volume means that these types of VORs are usually co-located with airports and are typically used for approaches. Terminal Terminal VORs have the smallest service volume.

VOR