Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Did you know that those huge white numbers at the start of the runway arent just assigned at random? There is a logical and easy system for assigning runway numbers. Key Takeaways Runway numbers reference the nearest 10-degree magnetic heading, with the last zero removed. This number is then assigned to the runway.

Runway

Aerotime

APRIL 3, 2025

Nowadays, modern aircraft are equipped with systems that can not only fly the aircraft but can also perform fully automated take-offs and landings and can even provide protection systems in the event of unusual flight situations that threaten the safety of the airplane and its occupants.

Weight-Shift-Control

Aerotime

DECEMBER 10, 2024

IntuVue RDR-4000 3D Weather Radar System is the first automatic, commercial radar to accurately depict weather in the flight path of an airplane. This receiver helps pinpoint precise airplane locations for efficient landings, especially during difficult and new runway approaches.

Cockpit

AV Web

APRIL 8, 2025

I n 1997 the worst runway incursion in aviation history occurred in foggy weather on the island of Tenerife when a KLM 747 began a takeoff with a lost Pan American 747 on the runway. More recently, runway incursions remain in the news. A vehicle deviation occurs if it crosses a runway-hold marking without ATC clearance.

Runway

Aerotime

MARCH 20, 2025

Electras EL9 combines blown lift technology and hybrid-electric propulsion to land on runways as short as 150 feet (45 meters) enabling it to rival helicopter access. Celebrating the news, Electra said that the developers order pipeline is one of the largest in the Advanced Air Mobility industry.

Payload

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The US Coast Guard announced on X that it dispatched an HC-130 Hercules airplane to look for the Cessna Caravans last known location. Before losing contact, the pilot informed Anchorage Air Traffic Control that he planned to enter a holding pattern while waiting for the runway to be cleared, as reported by the fire department.

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Located in the heart of Kowloon City with a runway that extended from mountains at one end into Hong Kong harbor, the iconic Kai Tak airport was known for its remarkable airplane landings, with a steep late turn onto final approach and aircraft seemingly skimming the rooftops of nearby apartment blocks as they landed.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JUNE 9, 2025

The FAA is investigating the crash of a skydiving airplane in Tullahoma, Tennessee, on Sunday where all 21 people on board the Skydive Tennessee-operated aircraft survived. Credit: Tennessee Highway Patrol/AVweb] Witnesses on the ground stated the aircraft appeared to be trying to make it back to the runway.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

The school also offers spin endorsements, upset recovery, aerobatic training, and hourly instruction if youre just itching to check the GameBird off your airplane bucket list. The Sbach, a notoriously difficult airplane to fly, challenges even the hardest of hard-core aerobatic pilots. The four-blade MT propeller is the only exception.

Knot

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2025

In training airplanes such as the Cessna 172, you will find a notation of the “demonstrated crosswind” with the caveat “not a limitation.” ” To get this information the aircraft manufacturers put their airplanes into crosswind conditions to see that it can handle them.

Crosswind

AV Web

MAY 2, 2025

Holland was about 50 feet above the runway on a normal approach when things went wrong, according to “multiple witnesses” cited in the report. “The airplane then porpoised twice, pitched straight up, rolled 90 to the left and descended to ground impact.”

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Today we will explain airplane holding patterns in detail, answer some common questions, and even teach you a few ‘hacks’ to make flying a hold a real breeze. Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Why Do Airplanes Use Holding Procedures? Here’s why airplanes take up the hold.

Airplanes

AV Web

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Aviation YouTuber Trent Palmer says far too many tailwheel airplanes get wrecked in ground loops because new pilots don’t have the basic rudder and brake feel to keep them rolling straight on the runway. He’s designed a tailwheel ground simulator to help impart that essential skill without risking expensive hardware.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 14, 2025

The ILS (Instrument Landing System) uses radio signals to help pilots align the aircraft accurately on their approach to a runway. An “ILS approach” is a landing procedure using the Instrument Landing System (ILS) to guide an aircraft to the runway. Lets learn more about this system! Precision Approaches (e.g.,

Approach

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 13, 2025

In FBOs and online forums, many prospective airplane owners ask other pilots for aircraft recommendations. Oftentimes, the shopper specifies that they want to be able to carry multiple, full-sized adult passengers, access relatively short runways, and fly cross-countries at a reasonably quick speed.

Tail

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

One of the fundamental aerodynamic concepts in aviation isleft-turning tendenciesthe natural forces that cause an airplane to yaw or roll left, particularly in a single-engine, propeller-driven aircraft. Heres the deal An aircraft doesnt always fly in a perfectly straight line, especially during takeoff and climb. How do you correct this?

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

READ MORE: Airshow Pilot Rob Holland Killed in Accident Holland held an airline transport pilot certificate with ratings for airplane single-engine land, airplane single-engine sea, airplane multiengine land, and gliders. Scott Slocum The airplane had been modified for aerobatics. National Aerobatic Championships.

Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC)

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

The winds and rain caught up with the little craft as if a hand was reaching out grabbing control of the airplane. The 152 rocked and bounced in the air currents as we approached the runway. It was all I could do to keep the airplane straight. He did admit to me that you handled the airplane admirably, given the conditions.

Airplanes

AV Web

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Navy F/A-18s based at Naval Air Station Lemoore in Nevada (accompanied by a USAF F-16) came dangerously close to a Cessna 152 taking off from an intersecting runway. Some witnesses speculated that the airplane descended from 700 feet to 400 feet above ground level.

Air Traffic Control

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

If youre flying an airplane with a short wingspan, you should do everything you can to avoid severe wake turbulence. 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.

Turbulence

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

On Tuesday, though, the airport welcomed an aircraft unlike any that has ever graced its runways. We’re like, this is an all-electric airplane. And most people don’t believe you because sometimes they look at it, and they’re like, You came from hundreds of miles awaywhat do you mean that’s an electric airplane?

Air Traffic Control

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2025

The story of this unique airplane begins in the early 1930s with Fred Weick, an engineer for the National Advisory Committee for Aviation (NACA). In a crosswind, you fly an Ercoupe down the runway with whatever crab angle you need to track the centerline and let the gear figure it out upon touchdown. Thus was born the Mooney Cadet.

Rudder

Flying Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

I fully expected the gauge to fix itself before we landed because that is what old airplanes frequently do (this airframe was about 42 years young). Time for that full disclosure stuff… I am a CFI in airplanes and gliders, and actively teach in gliders. Seeing my position visually, I was now totally confident I could make the runway.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. That flap retraction was not performed, and although the airplane made it into the air, it did not maintain sustained flight. Your airplane may be different.

Airplanes

Fear of Landing

MARCH 21, 2025

At the same time, they released an an urgent recommendation report calling for the FAA to close the helicopter route that the military helicopter was following whenever runway 33 is in use. This report shows that the separation between the aviation traffic for runway 33 and helicopters on route 4 was dangerously tight.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 7, 2025

That’s not something you want to hear from Bob, the owner of the airport where I base my airplane. You can’t deny it,” Bob said as if reading my mind “I have a beautiful picture of the bottom of your airplane!” To these people, the aviation-adverse, airplanes are noisy nuisances they would like to see go away. Respect them.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

Airplane ready. I lined up on Runway 27. The longest runway at Palm Beach County Park Airport (KLNA) is 3,500 feet, plus fields and open spaces would be ahead of me. At 500 feet down the runway, the little airplane leaped into the air despite my plan to build more speed before taking off. First flight! Settle down.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JUNE 25, 2025

For more information on operating in crosswinds, check out the Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3A), which lists common errors pilots make during crosswind takeoffs and landings and ways to mitigate them. Find a runway that is more aligned with the prevailing wind. Ask us anything you’ve ever wanted to know about aviation.

Crosswind

Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

aviation industry has also seen a number of high-profile equipment failures, fires, near misses, and small aircraft crashes in 2025, stoking anxiety about air travel, though the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says investigations for airplane accidents are actually down this year.

Air Traffic Control

One Mile at a Time

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

While we had a pretty short taxi to the runway, there was then a queue for takeoff. We were cleared for takeoff on runway 8R at 9:25PM. LATAM 787 map enroute to Santiago LATAM 787 map enroute to Santiago I’m not a great airplane sleeper , so that was about as good as airplane sleep gets for me!

Approach

Plane and Pilot

MAY 19, 2025

Just after departing from Runway 5, the pilot announced on the airports common traffic advisory frequency that the engine was running rough and he was returning to the airport. Another pilot flying in the airport traffic pattern reported that the accident airplane appeared too high and fast to land on Runway 23.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

What stupid airplane antics have I recently participated in that would warrant the query? My name is Andrew, and I used to fly that airplane in the early 2000s. Its a great airplane. Both of us had neighbors who owned airplanes and took us flying when we were not yet teens. I find myself staring at the phone in disbelief.

Airplanes

Air Facts

MARCH 14, 2025

So find an old airplane and a quiet strip and take a trip back in time. Find an old airplane and a quiet strip and take a trip back in time. As this website declares, “There is nothing as rewarding and satisfying as using an airplane to go places.” Take a kid for his or her first flight. It’s just about magic.

Airplanes

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. Most approaches, even non-GPS approaches, have a waypoint placed exactly at the threshold of the runway. In addition to required visibility, the runway environment must be distinctly visible and identifiable.

Runway

Cranky Flier

JUNE 2, 2025

In exchange, JetBlue and United will also swap eight runway timings at Newark which Marty says will enable his airline to fly more of those Caribbean and Florida flights earlier in the day when leisure travelers want them. And yes, United will return to JFK, but it won’t be until 2027. Why 2027 for JFK?

Airline

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

Most of the time, jets fly long, straight-in instrument approaches, so pilots dont get much practice approaching a runway from other directions. There are some simple tools you can use in any airplane with a moving map. That works well for short runways, say 3,000 feet or less. Heres the tip. Then activate vectors to final.

Approach

Pilot Institute

MARCH 19, 2025

When flying an airplane, you become a part of the air around you. Pilots use METARs for flight safety, runway selection, and weather planning. To accommodate this, airports will normally choose a runway number corresponding to the general wind direction. Forget checking your phone apps or the TV. What Is a METAR?

Weather