Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

The yaw damper automatically activates when 250 feet up on takeoff and deactivates at 200 feet agl on landing. We experimented with varying descents from an emergency descent profile—from coming down at nearly 10,000 fpm to seeing if we could cure being high and fast on an arrival procedure.

Rudder

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

Perhaps just prior to the start of descent could be the optimum time–certainly completed no later than commencement of approach. Any NOTAMS applicable? Recall that we must remain at or above MDA until we are in a normal position to perform a normal rate of descent to landing. We also benefit from the latest weather updates.

Approach

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

Check NOTAMs Before departure, check the Notices to Air Missions (NOTAM) publication. You might find a NOTAM about your destination’s surface conditions. Don’t depend on NOTAMs to provide up-to-date information on soft field conditions. If you’re not stabilized at 200 feet AGL, go around.

NOTAMs

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These range from passive red badges on flight plan waypoints and approach charts to identify NOTAMs and closed runways, to on-screen pop-ups accompanied by an aural message to make sure the app gets your attention. In the air, theyll notify when approaching Class, B, C or D airspace, a TFR or the Washington, D.C.

Pilot