Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Traffic Busy airports can only accommodate a certain number of airplanes safely at any one time. The ramp may be busy, or air traffic control may have reached its limit regarding how many airplanes they can safely monitor within their airspace. Preparing the cockpit and cabin. Holding is vital for several reasons.

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Airplanes Crosswind Approach Knot 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. The plane was high and very fast, crossing the airport boundary at 200 feet and 165 knots groundspeed.

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Knot Runway Pilot Groundspeed 93

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. The plane was high and very fast, crossing the airport boundary at 200 feet and 165 knots groundspeed.

Knot 52

Knot Runway Pilot Groundspeed 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

If you were the pilot in the cockpit, what would you do? Doubling your groundspeed quadruples the impact force. The safest touchdown happens at the lowest controllable airspeed, and youll be using aerodynamic devices to slow down. You can troubleshoot, communicate with air traffic control, and find a suitable landing site.

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Pilot Descent Approach Thrust 59