Flying Magazine

MAY 26, 2025

Even if you have a datalink weather capability in the cockpit, dont give up on your air traffic controllers. A ribbon display mounted near the air traffic controllers sector suite or in the tower cab provides any recent microbursts alerts.

Weather 78

Weather Wind Shear Pilot Air Traffic Control 78

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. That way, air traffic control can keep other traffic around the airport clear.

Airplanes 52

Airplanes Crosswind Approach Knot 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. Air Traffic Control uses this classification to separate aircraft and ensure that their wake turbulence does not affect other aircraft. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold.

Turbulence 97

Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

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.

Runway 301

Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

With as much as 25 knots of tailwind, we made the flight from Sodus to Alton Bay in only two hours. I was anxious about availability of parking on the ice and punished myself by remotely monitoring the veritable swarm of uplinked aircraft traffic in the pattern at Alton Bay. Should that guy be so close to the threshold?"

Runway 75

Runway Threshold Airplanes Approach 75