Air Facts

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The ATIS called out the overcast at 800 AGL, the minimum I needed (mistake #5not mine, but it counted anyway.) I held at 800, assuming Id see the runway lights below me and then I could continue to 06C. As I crossed the runway threshold, it was solid IMC and I had to go missed. Powerful words at that point.

Ceiling 90

Ceiling AGL Weather Threshold 90

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

For example, describing a Cuban eight maneuver would involve such writing as, enter the (in Farsi , R-L), Cuban eight (in English, L-R), maneuver no lower than (in Farsi , R-L), 10,000 AGL (in English, L-R), at a minimum of (in Farsi , R-L), 450 knots (in English, L-R). Watching such scribbling could make ones head spin!

Pilot 98

Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. IN-FLIGHT ALERTS 500 AGL Alerts – Alerts when descending through 500 ft. AGL after having been above 1,000 ft. AGL (or when AGL is unknown), the descent rate exceeds 4,000 ft.

AGL 52

AGL Runway Groundspeed Descent 52

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

Our Talon accelerated as it climbed toward pattern altitude1,500 feet AGL. The final turn in the T-38 is a nose-low, 180-degree turn designed to arrive on final one mile from the threshold at 500 feet AGL. The threshold slid past my right shoulder as I began my flare. Halfway through, I asked again: Any throttle movement?

AGL 52

AGL Crosswind Final Approach Threshold 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 26, 2025

One of the first things youll notice about TDWRs is that they are located off the airport about 7 miles from the center of its runway complex. Instead, the TDWR is located in a place that has good visibility to the approach and departure corridors and the runway environment.

Weather 77

Weather Wind Shear Pilot Air Traffic Control 77

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. In eight minutes, we would be a pile of bent aluminum in some field short of the runway.

VOR 52

VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

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. Theyre pretty much the same thing, but heres the difference: DH is measured above the ground (AGL).

Approach 52

Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes 52