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I Am UNSAFE Checklist—Lessons Learned on a Fateful Night

Air Facts

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.

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ForeFlight Adds Unusual Attitude Alerts, Auto Logbook Exports, and More

iPad Pilot News

Pitch and bank limits are configurable such as 25° pitch up/down, 40° bank above 2000 feet AGL, or 50° bank below 2000 feet AGL. Runway end threshold coordinates are now displayed in the Runway Details view (Airports > Runways) or airport popups on the Map, with a tap-to-copy option.

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Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights

iPad Pilot News

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.

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Teaching International Student Pilots

Air Facts

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!

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Throttle Mismanagement: A T-38 Lesson That Stuck

Air Facts

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?

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Terminal Radar: It’s the Weather Pilots Don’t See

Flying Magazine

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.

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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

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.

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