AGL Descent Stability 
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 2, 2024
The ACS states that recovery should be completed no lower than 1,500 ft AGL for single-engine aircraft and 3,000 ft AGL for multi-engine aircraft. Initiating a Power-off Stall Now, let’s dive into the stall: Reduce Power Simulate Approach Descent Watch for Stall Warnings 1. Once it’s clear, you’re good to go.
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. It would also require a descent to 2,200 feet before crossing the outer marker.
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AV Web
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Once youve got the airplane stabilized but are unable to resolve the partial power loss, its time to start getting this thing on the ground. The last thing you want to do is make a normal descent and landing. If youre talking to ATC, you should go ahead and declare the emergency.
AV Web
APRIL 15, 2025
Fixed-Wing Foibles Consider the Airbus first officer (FO) who tried to satisfy ATCs request to increase their descent (rate), so he engaged open descent mode. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Other than that, what?
Flying Magazine
JULY 16, 2025
not often easy in a descent. Adobe Stock] Get Back to Basics As instrument pilots, the importance of the stabilized approach was hammered into our heads during training. As a refresher, VREF is the speed of the airplane in a specified landing configuration, at the point where it descends to 50 feet agl.
Aerotime
MARCH 21, 2025
While the report draws no conclusions as to the cause of the crash, investigators set out a detailed timeline which focuses heavily on the Mitsubishi CRJ900s descent. TSB At a height of 50 feet the rate of descent had increased to 1114 feet per minute (fpm) from 672 fpm around 14 seconds before. to the right, the TSB said.
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. 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. Will the vertical speed necessary comply with required descent criteria?
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