Flying Magazine

JUNE 5, 2025

Located in Berryville, Arkansas, the airport is roughly a 19-minute drive from Eureka Springs downtown business district, and it boasts a single asphalt runway. 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.

Runway

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

Flying a single engine airplane, under IFR, in the clouds, in a non-radar environment and without an autopilot, adds a great deal to the pilots work load. With three airplanes, we departed Springfield for Fairfield, Iowa to compete in an NIFA competition against five other schools. This was the situation on Friday, December 1, 1972.

VOR

Plane and Pilot

JULY 22, 2025

After 800 hours of flying, with almost 50 different types in my logbook, there are several airplanes that I have felt one with—Game Aerospace’s GB1 GameBird , almost any member of the classic and modern day Cub species, and a very specific Cessna 170, just to name a few. Just keep it in the center of the runway.” asked Finkbeiner.

Runway

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

These would guide them when they couldn’t see anything outside their airplane. Lateral guidance tells you to go left or right to align yourself with the runway. Heres how you decide: If you can see the runway (or certain lights or markers for the runway) when you reach the DH, you can keep going and land.

Approach

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

Ground reference maneuvers aim to train you to accurately control your airplane under various wind conditions. In the traffic pattern, youll need to ensure that you maintain a course in relation to the runway. In the traffic pattern, this is the runway. Be respectful, and remember that your airplane makes a lot of noise.

Crosswind

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

Air Facts

JULY 18, 2025

My instructor kept pulling the yoke aft as the airplane shrieked in protest, the stall warning screaming louder than any siren I’d heard before. Then, as the G-forces eased and the airplane began to recover, I saw the tallest pine branch pass by the window, its needles seemingly watching us in alarm. We made it to the runway.

AGL

AV Web

DECEMBER 11, 2024

I had plenty of altitude and enough engine power to reach a nearby 9000-foot-long runway after a couple of 360-degree turns to lose altitude. Pro tip: Keep as much altitude as you can as long as you can until descending for the runway in such a situation.) Regardless, we were done flying that day. Or all three.

Runway

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Student pilots get a free pass, because theyre adorable skittering off runways in Loss of Directional Control (LODC) events that vex the best among us. While hover taxing on the taxiway, NTSB reports, a Cessna airplane taxied onto the same taxiway. at Marana, Arizona, on 2021s first day.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

More specifically, fast (aka high-energy) approaches, can be requested by ATC and become a trap and possibly lead to a bent airplane or, worse still, a fatal outcome. READ MORE: VFR Landing Skills Can Become Rusty During IFR Training Know your airplane, and all this might be relatively straightforward.

Approach

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. After taxiing to Runway 32, he was instructed to turn to a heading of 090 after takeoff and maintain 3,000. The airplane stops climbing, begins to descend, and may fly under control into the terrain. The weather was benign.

Pilot

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

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And Im particularly ears up when an accident involves an airplane or an airport that Im familiar with. The RV-10 was involved in a fatal accident after impacting the roof of a furniture manufacturer whose building is near short final to Runway 24. Video shows the airplane in a nearly 90-degree right bank before impact.

Runway

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

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.

Crosswind

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

A perfectly good airplane with everything operating as expected. What is the runway lighting? Only accurate within 10 degrees of runway heading). If you choose to fly a Circle-to Land approach to a runway without a VASI or PAPI, you are greatly increasing your vertical flight error path (possibility/probability).

Approach

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. And the performance planning feature will warn you if computed takeoff or landing distances exceed available runway lengths.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Soon, the eagerly expected runway came into view, and the briefest of traffic patterns put us on the pavement, rolling out in relief. My companion claimed to spot runway lights directly below as I executed the miss. The DH or MDA is just that, a minimum, at which point you either see the runway environment or execute the miss.

Weather

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

1: When operating an unmanned airplane, the remote pilot should consider that the load factor on the wings may be increased any time that the: A. airplane is subjected to maneuvers other than straight-and-level flight. Example question No. CG is shifted rearward to the aft CG limit. gross weight is reduced. Example question No.

Weight-Shift-Control

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

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.

Runway

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

But, as you near the runway, the airplane starts to float. The aircraft will float and try to takeoff too early or float over the runway and delay touchdown while landing. If not recognized in time, ground effect can result in runway overruns. You’re landing. You feel in control. It’s not magic—it’s ground effect.

Ground Effect

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

But how to do so when you’ve known the airplane since its early development years, as I have? She warned me ahead of time that the airplane wouldn’t appear different from the outside but to expect something truly different inside. The logic is, if you can enter the airplane with the key fob, you can start the engine.

Pilot

Northstar VFR

JULY 28, 2023

As an inexperienced, aspiring pilot, you’ve surely heard the saying that “the least important thing in aviation is the runway behind you, the fuel left in the truck and altitude above you”. This is why when crossing flight level 180 (18,000 ft), all airplanes revert their altimeter settings to 29.92. Airplanes think?

Density Altitude

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Not only must you fly unnervingly slow, but you also have to pick a spot on the runway and hit it. It’s a runway that is too short for a normal takeoff or landing but still usable with certain precautions. This allows them to safely operate into and out of these tight runways. You’re not alone.

Weight-Shift-Control

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

Unlike paved runways, every soft landing surface is different. Obstructions: Ensure the runway is clear of obstacles, from stones to animals. You can walk down the length of the runway. If the runway is too wet, it might be temporarily closed. They’re happy to tell you the status of the airport and runways.

NOTAMs

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Runway visual range (RVR) under 2,400 feet triggers a SPECI, and another is issued if it rises to 2,400 feet or more within 10 minutes. Well, these events can quickly affect visibility or runway conditions so much that they call for a special report. Runway visual range (RVR). Let’s look at each weather condition. Visibility.

Altimeter

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Runway incursions are caused by lapses in awareness and communication. Its key elements include: Upwind leg: After takeoff, you fly straight out, climbing away from the runway. Crosswind leg: You turn 90 degrees to the upwind leg, flying perpendicular to the runway. Determining the Active Runway Where is the active runway based?

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Soon, the eagerly expected runway came into view, and the briefest of traffic patterns put us on the pavement, rolling out in relief. My companion claimed to spot runway lights directly below as I executed the miss. The DH or MDA is just that, a minimum, at which point you either see the runway environment or execute the miss.

Weather

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. Ideally, you should choose one that is at least 50 nautical miles away, with a long runway, abundant FBO/ maintenance services, and a precision approach.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot Institute

MAY 25, 2024

An airport has closed a runway/taxiway/apron for maintenance. He landed on a closed turf runway, causing the aircraft to nose over. In their example, runway 04L/22R is closed at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD). RWY 04L/22R tells us the subject is runway (RWY) 04L/22R. a closed runway has been reopened).

NOTAMs

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, this airplane is also designed with systems simple enough—and handling qualities docile enough—to allow no-jet-time aviators to confidently solo in as little as 15 hours. Once it spins up the engine we begin taxi practice to the runway, something a bit akin to learning to steer my old taildragger.

Knot

Air Facts

APRIL 24, 2024

After a few minutes of flying through the “chop,” our runway was in sight. Then, descending through just a few hundred feet AGL, and a few hundred yards from the end of the runway, the turbulence diminished. There’s no way in hell I was going to climb back into that airplane, not that day, not in those conditions.

Turbulence

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Current minimums on the RNAV-28 are 558 feet AGL since we lost our LPV approaches due to obstructions. Even if we managed to miss all the clouds on our way down to the waiting runway, I would still be able to count the approach toward currency. In actuality, we never went IMC. It never fails. This morning was a prime example.

Ceiling

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Airports such as ATL and JFK have multiple runways and cover around 5,000 acres of land. Stay clear of the Class B boundaries if you’re flying under a shelf with a floor less than 3,000 feet AGL. You’ll always find a steady stream of airliners queued up for departure and arrival. Expect considerable traffic near Class B airspace.

Clearance

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

According to the FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam), a stable approach is defined as one in which the pilot establishes and maintains a constant angle glidepath toward a predetermined point on the landing runway. This internal bargaining effect sets a potentially dangerous precedent because there’s no objective limit to defining an unstable approach.

Approach

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

I was listening intently to the ASOS for wind or gusts, letting it repeat 5 or 6 times with the exact same report: 9 kts straight down the runway; no gusts. That was the runway we would use to land. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call.

Pilot