AV Web

MAY 6, 2025

Lets take a deep dive into what it takes to get an airplane on the ground after a successful instrument approach. If the airport is your home drome, and there is a big oak tree or a Walmart on final you can measure the distance from there to the threshold on a sunny day. Another way to tell the distance is by using the approach lights.

Approach 94

Approach Runway Threshold True Airspeed 94

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

Flying a single engine airplane, under IFR, in the clouds, in a non-radar environment and without an autopilot, adds a great deal to the pilots work load. With three airplanes, we departed Springfield for Fairfield, Iowa to compete in an NIFA competition against five other schools. This was the situation on Friday, December 1, 1972.

VOR 52

VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

Caught in series of up and down drafts, the autopilot pitched the Warrior aggressively to maintain altitude and the indicated airspeed trended too high in each updraft. We broke out right at the missed approach point which is much too high and close to the runway threshold to make a normal landing. I logged about 0.7

Ceiling 52

Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Fear of Landing

MAY 16, 2025

Although it is referred to as the decision speed, V 1 represents a crucial threshold: any choice to reject the take off must be made before reaching V 1 , so that the stopping is already in progress when it reaches V 1. The ASDA is published for each runway and represents the maximum distance available for a rejected take-off. CC BY-SA 2.0

Thrust 100

Thrust V Speed Knot Runway 100