Aerotime
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Without qualified and competent air traffic controllers on the ground, managing the increasingly crowded skies, and keeping aircraft apart, safety could be compromised with a resulting potential for catastrophe and the loss of life, both in the air and on the ground.
Aerotime
APRIL 29, 2024
However, as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, the footage appears to show the aircraft making little attempt to arrest its rate of descent or initiate a flare by raising its nose to bleed off any excess airspeed before it touches down.
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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.
Pilot Institute
JANUARY 24, 2025
Special VFR is a clearance issued by Air Traffic Control (ATC) that allows pilots to operate in weather conditions below the standard VFR minimums. Although Flight Service cannot give you an SVFR clearance, they will be able to work with the Air Traffic Control facility that oversees the airspace where youre going.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 28, 2025
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. Small landing behind a Heavy 6 miles of separation.
Vintage Aviation News
JUNE 18, 2024
This phenomenon started when U.S.Air Force pilot, Gail Halvorsen talked to some of the children gathered at the runway threshold and shared the only candy he had with him, two sticks of Wrigley’s Spearmint chewing gum. Gail Halvorsen, by dedicating a newly constructed air traffic control tower on Clay Kaserne this Saturday.
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.
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