One Mile at a Time

MARCH 18, 2025

The aircraft came in to land on runway 22. Weather conditions werent good at all, with winds at the time reported as being at 22 knots, and gusting to 36 knots. Not only that, but there was quite a crosswind, as wind was blowing at a direction 40 degrees off the runway heading. This incident is now being investigated.

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Air Traffic Control Knot Runway Crosswind 85

Flying Magazine

MAY 26, 2025

Even if you have a datalink weather capability in the cockpit, dont give up on your air traffic controllers. 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.

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Weather Wind Shear Pilot Air Traffic Control 77

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

On Tuesday, though, the airport welcomed an aircraft unlike any that has ever graced its runways. Watching Alia from the runway were representatives from the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and state officials, including Senator John Liu (D-N.Y.).

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Air Traffic Control Airplanes Lift Runway 113

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.

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Cabin Crew Runway Clearance Knot 273

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.”

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Runway Clearance Air Traffic Control Knot 111

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.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Runway Knot 120

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?”

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Air Traffic Control Runway Approach Pilot 121

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.

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Air Traffic Control Knot Pilot Runway 69

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.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes Runway Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. After one aircraft lands, the tailwind pushes the vortices forward into the runways touchdown zone. This lateral movement of vortices is important to know for pilots flying into airports with parallel runways.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

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?”

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Jet 120

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!

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Clearance Air Traffic Control Hangar Runway 78

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.

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Knot Runway Air Traffic Control 114

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.

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Cabin Crew Descent Runway Approach 265

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?

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Airplanes Crosswind Approach Knot 52

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.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes Runway Pilot 87

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.

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Descent Final Approach Approach Runway 52

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.

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Approach Runway Knot Air Traffic Control 98

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.

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Clearance Runway Air Traffic Control Pilot 52

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.

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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 77

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.

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Knot Air Traffic Control Gross Weight Airplanes 271

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.

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Weather Pilot Airspace Classes Airplanes 52

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.

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VOR Crosswind Pilot Approach 52

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.

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Tarmac Runway Cargo Air Traffic Control 301

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.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Airline Airlines 196

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Haynes took the controls and, noting the same control issues, reduced thrust on the number one engine, which resulted in the aircraft rolling out in a wings-level attitude, giving the crew critical time to evaluate the dire situation Flight 232 was facing.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

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.

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Knot Runway Air Traffic Control Pilot 85

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 8, 2024

BREAKING : Two Delta Airlines planes collide on runway at Georgia airport. While not the root cause of the accident, the CRJ-900 definitely could’ve been a bit closer to the hold short line for the runway. The CRJ-900 was cleared to hold short of the runway, but there were around 56 feet between the nose of the aircraft and the line.

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Tail Jet Clearance Runway 121

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The runway came out worst, with a 720-metre scrape, about 2,350 feet, two metres left of the centre line. The flight crew had the full runway available to them, with a take-off distance available of 3,974 metres, which was luckily ample despite the circumstances. The Boeing 777 became airborne at 180 knots.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 97

One Mile at a Time

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, after achieving a speed of over 100 knots, the pilots made the decision to abort the takeoff. This is because the Alaska pilots heard that the Southwest 737 had been given clearance to cross the same runway that the Alaska jet was taking off from. The US air traffic control system is obviously in need of some major overhaul.

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Air Traffic Control Clearance Runway Jet 117

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. Around halfway, cruising at 3,000 feet at 180 knots, onboard avionics data indicates increasing temperature in one of the cylinder heads lasting about five minutes. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway.

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Knot Runway Pilot Groundspeed 93

Air Facts

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I was flying a T-38 solo at night as a student, returning to Vance Air Force Base. The base had switched runways from Runway 35 to Runway 17, so that when I came back into the base I was approaching the traffic pattern from the north. Flying at the pattern altitude at the usual 300 knots, solo, at night.

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Runway Pilot Aileron Approach 98

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

When bay ice consistently thickens to over 12 inches, a team of dedicated volunteers collaborates with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation to open the Alton Bay Ice Runway. Over the years, its coveted status as the only FAA-authorized ice runway in the continental United States has endeared it to aviators seeking novelty.

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Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 75

Plane and Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

As I walked down toward the run-up area along Runway 14, I heard the faint sound of a turbine closing in. Upon closer inspection (and with the help of my prescription sunglasses) I looked up and saw a single-engine air tanker above midfield, joining the right downwind for Runway 14. The scene of a fire can be a busy one.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Airplanes Runway 98

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. Around halfway, cruising at 3,000 feet at 180 knots, onboard avionics data indicates increasing temperature in one of the cylinder heads lasting about five minutes. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway.

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Knot Runway Pilot Groundspeed 52

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.

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Turbulence V Speed Rudder Air Traffic Control 99

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.

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Wind Shear Weather Descent Approach 66