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Step-by-Step Guide: How to Land a Piper Seminole Safely

Pilot's Life Blog

Approach speeds typically range from 80 to 90 knots depending on weight and flap settings, while full flaps are often used to provide the necessary lift during landing. The aircrafts landing gear is retractable, which must be extended during the final approach.

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Experience in the Chair: Guiding a Twin Beech Home

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It was common practice for tower controllers to monitor the area control centre enroute frequency. It was a winter night shift in a Western Ontario air traffic control tower. One controller on duty was the norm on most snowy nights when most of the flying activities had ended for the day.

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Aviation Weather 101: What Makes Microbursts So Dangerous?

Pilot Institute

Detecting them is difficult, which makes final approach and landing especially dangerous. Many factors can trigger evaporational cooling, where the cooled air sinks and weakens the updraft. With nothing left to lift it, the core has nowhere else to go but down. This is just as deadly during takeoff.

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What Is a Squall Line? Pilot Weather Guide with Visuals

Pilot Institute

Moisture, instability, lift, and wind shear are needed to form and sustain a squall line. Lifting Mechanism Squall lines tend to develop along cold fronts, warm fronts, or dry lines. It’s these areas that act as natural lifting zones. As dense, cooler air pushes under warmer air, it forces the warm air upward.

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What Is an Aircraft Go-Around and When Is It Used?

Pilot's Life Blog

Communications with Air Traffic Control (ATC): Once the go-around is initiated, the pilot must immediately inform ATC by announcing the go-around. This helps maintain situational awareness and allows ATC to safely sequence traffic. Pilots must comply promptly to ensure the orderly flow of traffic.

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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know:   Part two   

Aerotime

Depending on other traffic ahead, not least at the destination, air traffic controllers (ATC) will clear the flight to descend in stages, to be level at certain waypoints on the arrival route. This may be accompanied by the deployment of spoilers on top of the wing.

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Voyage to the Little Island of the Gods

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As WFC President, he humbly suggested that I could legitimately use the callsign "Williamson One" with air traffic control. Final approach, runway 28, Block Island State Airport. The extra precautious were probably unnecessary; Warrior 481 lifted off quickly and climbed skyward with plenty of runway remaining.