AGL Threshold Weather 
Flying Magazine
MAY 26, 2025
Even if you have a datalink weather capability in the cockpit, dont give up on your air traffic controllers. Your satellite-based weather receiver becomes less effective in the busy terminal area due to its latencyespecially if an update or two is missed. Plus, the airspace is more congested, giving you less options to deviate.
Air Facts
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
It was early winter, but the current skies and projected weather looked favorable, so I decided to fly rather than drive. I decided to fly first and eat later due to approaching weather (mistake #1), and, after a weather briefing, estimated I could get to Chicago (DuPage Airport (KDPA)) before the weather from the west did (mistake #2).
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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.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
Take into consideration that weather reporting, and the dissemination of these reports to pilots, was not as accurate then as it is now. In just six months I would reflect on my training and agonize over how inadequately I had been prepared for the real world of instrument flying, which is weather.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Approach Minimums When youre flying in bad weather and cant see much, you can rely on your trusty instruments to guide you. Theyre pretty much the same thing, but heres the difference: DH is measured above the ground (AGL). The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 26, 2024
If you’re at a field with no weather reporting, gauge the wind speed and direction using the windsock. If you’re not stabilized at 200 feet AGL, go around. On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power.
Pilot Institute
MAY 4, 2024
Weather, field conditions, obstacles, and many other elements greatly affect short field operations. If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. x V SO (or POH recommendation) by around 500 feet AGL. Establish the target approach speed by around 500 feet AGL.
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