Flying Magazine

JUNE 23, 2025

Turns out there was a Cessna 172’s tail sticking out of some heavy brush toward the end of the runway. READ MORE: Air Bosses: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Airshows’ Vital Contributors You don’t have to be an air traffic controller to figure out the worst. At best, that can mean a delay getting in or out.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

With a range of 78 nm with reserves and 110-120 knots cruise speed, the Gen 6 will fly passengers in suburban areas such as Sugar Land, Texas, near Houston. Capable of taking off vertically—but quietly—like a helicopter and cruising on fixed wings like a plane, the air taxi won’t need a runway to operate.

Air Traffic Control

Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

READ MORE: Dragon Lady and T-38 Talon Set to Appear at EAA AirVenture What you need to know: Maintaining 90 knots until entering downwind at Oshkosh New depiction of gravel pit/beginning descent over gravel pit (any portion) when arriving to Runway 27 Addition of a QR code on the NOTAM cover that directs to the EAA Flying In web page References to (..)

NOTAMs

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2025

We want to clear that 200-foot pine tree off the end of the runway by going up, not moving rapidly toward it, so flying at V X , found close to stalling speed but still well away from it, is our best option. The aircraft manufacturer’s testing and computing have usually resulted in two airspeed targets for climbing.

Descent

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Key Takeaways A holding pattern keeps an aircraft in a controlled area using a racetrack-shaped course. Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Traffic Busy airports can only accommodate a certain number of airplanes safely at any one time. What Is a Hold? Want an example?

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

He then taxied to the runway and experienced an extended ground delay with the engine running at idle engine power settings. The airplane then descended back to the runway and bounced before lifting off nose-high again toward the end of the runway. He did not use carburetor heat during the ground delay or during takeoff.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Air Facts

APRIL 28, 2025

A Stearman, a POW, and the Worlds Busiest Airport Air Facts Journal This was unbelievable to myself and my wingman because we were still 18 miles north. Our old and slow Stearman PT-17 biplanes were racing along at 65 mph as we were fighting a 20-knot headwind, so we were still almost 15 minutes from touchdown!

Clearance

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Learning how to land a Piper Seminole means becoming comfortable with these avionics, which help guide the aircraft through the landing procedure, ensuring optimal approach speeds and alignment with the runway. Once the flaps are set and landing gear is confirmed, begin your final descent to the runway.

Descent

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

A strong downward rush of air sent it plunging uncontrollably. The jet slammed into the ground six thousand feet short of the runway, taking the lives of 134 people. Horizontal wind speeds near the surface can be as fast as 45 knots, resulting in a 90-knot wind shear from headwind to tailwind across the microburst.

Wind Shear

Aerotime

MARCH 20, 2025

As the aircraft approached Nome, air traffic controllers informed the pilot of flight 445 that Nomes runway was being de-iced and was temporarily closed, and that flight 445 could expect a 10 to 15 minute delay in landing clearance to be given. Indications show that its speed dropped from around 160 knots to 110 knots.

Knot

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

It was noon on a clear, cold January day, and I was taxiing to the start of the grass runway at little Thiene Airport for my first solo flight. Moments before my Dolomite-facing runway pause, Giorgio and I had flown several circuits around the traffic pattern. I taxied alone to the threshold of runway 17. Can you hear me?”

Runway

Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

During the take-off roll, the first officer noticed that although the Challenger 300 was accelerating normally, the right-side primary flight control had stopped showing acceleration above 40 knots. He checked the captain’s primary flight control which showed normal acceleration. He called out that he had no airspeed.

Turbulence

One Mile at a Time

APRIL 13, 2025

The plane taxied out to runway 24L, and began its takeoff roll. However, as the plane accelerated through around 100 knots, the pilots made the decision to reject the takeoff. The plane then vacated the runway and taxied to the gate. Bottom line A Hawaiian Airlines A330 rejects its takeoff at LAX, at roughly 100 knots.

Knot

One Mile at a Time

JULY 22, 2025

Obviously it’s normal for the same runway to be used for takeoffs and landings, but not at exactly the same time. Runway 5R is really long — it’s 12,800 feet (3,900 meters), due largely to Mexico City’s high altitude. Fortunately the Boeing aircraft rejected its takeoff at around 60 knots, preventing a catastrophe.

Runway

Aerotime

JUNE 27, 2025

While love was in the air, so were Gulfstreams, Globals, and a flurry of air traffic control alerts. As Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez tied the knot in Venice, Italy, the skies above Marco Polo Airport resembled an exclusive international airshow. Welcome to the most glamorous airlift of the year.

Jet

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

Use the camera control shortcut on your keyboard to look at the center pedestal and verify that it is pulled up into its highest setting of “auto rich.” READ MORE: Live Air Traffic Control Services Can Enhance Your Flight Sim Experience Next, verify that the fuel booster pump is set to “low.”

Flight Deck

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 2, 2025

He said that as he approached the airport, the reported weather indicated the wind was aligned with the runway. During the approach, he noted that the windsock showed a left crosswind, and he adjusted the approach using crosswind control correction for the left crosswind. During the rollout, the wind shifted, and the right wing rose.

Crosswind

Fear of Landing

JULY 25, 2025

The first officer would use the aircraft weight, along with the environmental conditions and the runway parameters, to determine the V-speeds for the flight and enter them into the flight management system. Air Traffic Control noticed the same thing, calling the crew to ask whether they needed their taxi to be delayed.

Ferry Flight

Fear of Landing

JULY 18, 2025

ATC asked if the aircraft required the full length of the runway and the crew confirmed that they did. The aircraft accelerated along the runway and reached V1, the take-off decision speed, of 155 knots normally. The air traffic controller asked for more information but did not receive a response.

Weight-Shift-Control

Aerotime

JULY 30, 2024

Three Delta planes were on standby to depart from Runway 16L at SLC Airport. A recording of the conversation between a pilot of the DL1304 and air traffic control was uploaded to YouTube. Right now, for the Delta 1304, we have four knots too much tailwind. Delta 2046, that’s fine, runway – and you have access now?”

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On the day in question, DHL Air (Austria) Boeing 767-300ER freighter was operating a routine cargo flight from Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport to London-Luton Airport as flight QY6700. The plane took off from runway 36L at Schiphol at 14:42 local time.

Air Traffic Control

AV Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The NTSB and FAA are investigating a runway incursion at Nashville International Airport on Thursday in which an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crew rejected its takeoff at about 130 knots when a Southwest 737-700 crossed the far end of the runway it was using.

Runway

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This isn’t good… air traffic controllers cleared two Southwest jets to use the same runway at the same time. VASAviation has an excellent video with both the air traffic control audio and a depiction of where the jets were located during the incident. Southwest 1478: “Southwest 1478 rejecting.”

Runway

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Michael Derrer Fuchs / Shutterstock Once the pushback is complete and the engines are running, the crew will contact ATC again for taxi clearance, effectively asking the tower for the route they are required to follow and which taxiways to use to reach the active runway.

Cabin Crew

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 28, 2024

As an aviation geek, I love listening to air traffic control audio, and always enjoy the VASAviation YouTube channel, which does a great job covering noteworthy air traffic control interactions. Well, VASAviation has just published another JFK ATC video, this time involving an Air France pilot.

Air Traffic Control

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 21, 2024

The aircraft was cleared for a visual approach on runway 17R. Based on air traffic control audio , the pilots didn’t even realize what they were doing until the air traffic controller warned them, thanks to a low altitude alert in the tower: Air traffic controller: “Southwest 4069, low altitude alert, you good out there?”

Air Traffic Control

One Mile at a Time

JULY 29, 2024

So the pilot of the first Delta jet advised air traffic control they’d need a minute to crunch the numbers on takeoff performance: Delta 1304 pilot: “Right now, for Delta 1304, we got four knots too much on the tailwind. Air traffic controller: “Delta 2046, that’s fine… and you have access now?”

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Cabin Crew

Airline Geeks

MAY 29, 2024

The Boston-bound A319 was forced to reject its takeoff at over 80 knots as the King Air was landing on the intersecting runway.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

He then taxied to the runway and experienced an extended ground delay with the engine running at idle engine power settings. The airplane then descended back to the runway and bounced before lifting off nose-high again toward the end of the runway. He did not use carburetor heat during the ground delay or during takeoff.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Fear of Landing

JULY 26, 2024

Fisk Approach Control: Low wing up high, half mile southwest of Fisk, rock your wings and say type. Lancair N18BG: Lancair Fisk Approach Control: All right Lancair. You prefer [runway] 27 or 36? Fisk Approach Control: Roger, once you get to Fisk here, you can start your right turn. It’s 36, left base for runway 36.

Approach

Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 10, 2024

It also keeps planes organized on the runway, but what is it exactly? Aviation taxiing is when an airplane or other aircraft with wheels rolls off, on, or along the runway at a slow, consistent speed. It’s simply when the plane moves around the runway for other reasons. Learn more from the best flight school in Arizona here.

Clearance

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

Even though I was likely to be cleared through the outer ring by ATC (air traffic control) while on an instrument flight plan, I filed a route from Sodus to the Williamsport VOR (FQM) that circumvented the TFR entirely. I pulled the power back and set a notch of flaps to establish a 90 knot, 500 foot/minute descent.

Approach

Pilot Institute

MAY 7, 2025

Moreover, there will normally be an air traffic controller keeping you separated. This is given in nautical miles per hour (or knots, if you prefer) and details how much wind the airplane can safely handle from the side during takeoff and landing. Reduced braking action on the runway. Particularly crosswinds.

Weather

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

Air Traffic Control (ATC) uses these procedures to delay aircraft. For example, if you’re holding at 100 knots and have a 10-knot tailwind on the outbound leg, the outbound leg should be shorter than one minute because you’ll have a headwind on the inbound leg. You are looking for the RNAV approach into runway 17R.

VOR

Aerotime

MAY 1, 2024

A Boeing 747 freighter aborted its takeoff run at Riyadh Airport after realizing it was taking off from a taxiway instead of its assigned runway. Data from Flightradar24 shows that the aircraft taxied from the cargo apron located at the northwestern end of the airfield at 00:28 before taxying down to the taxiway leading to runway 33R.

Tarmac

Aerotime

APRIL 9, 2025

A Japan Airlines Boeing 737-800 operating a domestic flight within Japan reportedly lined up with the runway edge lights in error, causing damage to the lighting and leading to an aborted take-off. Upon receiving clearance to take off from air traffic controllers at the airport at 19:11 local time, the aircraft began its take-off roll.

Runway