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.

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Approach Runway Threshold True Airspeed 94

Cranky Flier

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The European regulator EASA is requiring a one-time inspection of all A350 engines to ensure this problem isn’t more widespread beyond Cathay Pacific’s 15 airplanes.

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Pilot Threshold Drag Airplanes 273

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

Airplane ready. At 500 feet down the runway, the little airplane leaped into the air despite my plan to build more speed before taking off. Adrenaline coursed through my veins, and every sense was tuned to the heartbeat of the small new airplane. First flight in a new airplane. The Pulsar was now the airplane in my dream.

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Gross Weight Runway Crosswind Airplanes 65

Cranky Flier

MAY 23, 2025

Part of the agreement included a poison pill that if the regional carrier was required to fly to and from Newark on a regular basis it could either drop the contract immediately or require United CEO Scott Kirby to move into a highway-view room at the Howard Johnson that sits at the threshold to runway 22R for the duration of the deal.

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Threshold Runway Airlines Airline 130

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

He shook the stick in reply: Youve got the airplane. The final turn in the T-38 is a nose-low, 180-degree turn designed to arrive on final one mile from the threshold at 500 feet AGL. The threshold slid past my right shoulder as I began my flare. Youve got the airplane. One day, I had finally had enough.

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AGL Threshold Final Approach Crosswind 52

AV Web

AUGUST 29, 2024

The alert emphasizes the importance of promptly feathering the affected engine’s propeller before its rpm drops below the critical threshold where start locks engage. The NTSB warns this gap in training can lead to improper management and increased risk of loss of control during single-engine operations.

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Threshold Pilot Airplanes 98

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The ADS-B data showed the airplane continued a slight descent after takeoff followed by a right turn until the data ended about 0.6 The airplane impacted the east face of a ridgeline about 0.7 I’m going to quote the report here because I can’t quite see how the numbers add up (bolding mine).

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Runway Descent Pilot Threshold 98

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

Once wings-level on the Inside Downwind, you lower the gear and flaps and, approximately one mile beyond the landing threshold, you reduce power at The Perch. You then execute a 180 o descending Final Turn maintaining 175 knots to arrive wings-level one mile from the threshold on final approach at 500 AGL.

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Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 23, 2024

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Threshold Airplanes Airlines Airline 98

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Landing an airplane can be one of the most nerve-wracking tasks for a student pilot. Getting an airplane to fly is easy. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. Approach Speed When crossing the threshold, you must ensure you fly the correct approach speed.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Final Approach 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Have you ever thought about landing an airplane without using flaps? Think about these scenarios: maybe the flaps stop working, or youre flying an older airplane that doesnt even have them. So, you should practice maintaining the correct sight picture by aligning the runway threshold with a fixed reference point on the windscreen.

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Pilot Drag Descent Approach 52

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. The entire airplane was being coated with clear ice.

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VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Using the VASI is crucial as it gives you safe obstruction clearance within 10 degrees of either side of the runway centerline and around four nautical miles from the runway threshold. Three-Bar VASI To help you when flying long-bodied airplanes, like the Boeing 747 or the McDonnell Douglas MD-11, some airports use the three-bar VASI.

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Runway Approach Threshold Clearance 98

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It actually flew fine, and it flies like a normal airplane. “If you view the video of the first flight on YouTube ( LINK ), you’ll see the airplane does some wiggling around, but most of that was done on purpose as I was trying to get the feel of it as fast as I could.” It is a terrible airplane for crosswinds.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

These would guide them when they couldn’t see anything outside their airplane. The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach. The satellites then send the corrected signals back to your airplane. Lets look at each type of approach and see how it works.

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Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes 52

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. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold. This includes single or multi-engine prop airplanes including Cessnas and Pipers. Mass and inertia also matter.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

GA pilots find time-tested and more creative ways to skitter off the side of the runway, land short of the threshold, or slide off the far end with the brakes smoking and tires squealing. Better to explain an unplanned go-around than to write a big check for a banged-up airplane, or worse.

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Stability Approach Runway Pilot 89

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

With 10 passengers and luggage on board the airplane, it was well under gross weight, but it soon became apparent we could not out climb the ice buildup. I had a good idea what track the airplane was flying relative to this airport. They had moved to their strategic waiting position close to the landing runway threshold.

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Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Aerotime

OCTOBER 25, 2024

 However, all those students qualifying through CAE will encounter the same curriculum, level of standards, and threshold testing as students trained at NAV CANADA.   Indeed, as the density of air traffic continues to rise in the future, so will the key skills required to keep airplanes apart in limited airspace become increasingly complex.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Threshold Cabin Crew 233

Flight Training Central

JULY 12, 2024

This identifies the critical area for the instrument landing system, located near the ILS antenna array, where an airplane on the ground (or vehicle) in that space could interfere with the radio signals for airplanes flying an ILS instrument approach.

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Instrument Landing System Threshold Ceiling Runway 52

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 24, 2025

Special VFR (SVFR) is a clearance that is given to an aircraft by ATC that allows flights in controlled airspace under VFR when weather is below standard VFR minimums but above IFR thresholds. This is usually near airports in Class B, C, D, or E airspace.

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Clearance Pilot in Command Ceiling Weather 52

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. What can be problematic, though, is that the sounds coming from the iPad’s small speaker are typically drowned out by your airplane’s engine noise.

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AGL Runway Groundspeed Descent 52

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. 164 airplanes.)

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 95

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

The wheels touch down too hard, and before you know it, the airplane is bouncing right back into the air. Common Aircraft Types Bounced landings can occur in different airplane models, including the popular Cessna 172. Everything seems to be going well on approach, and then out of nowhere, you feel the jolt. What do you do?

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Descent Runway Rudder Pilot 52

AV Web

MAY 12, 2024

Even though it’s been approved for use in virtually every gasoline airplane on the U.S. For Shepler, the airplanes ceased to be a mere annoyance. A few are right on the threshold where EPA starts taking notice. They became spewers of poison that were unleashing toxins on a little girl who had already been through so much.

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Threshold Airplanes 76

Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

The squadron now has two newly minted naval aviators, one retread and no airplanes. We know that our new airplanes will be the F2H-3 Banshee night fighter. To get a little better view approaching the threshold I leaned to my left and stretched up to maybe see a little more of the runway.

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Runway Airplanes Pilot Pilot in Command 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Not knowing the B-52 had arrived ahead of schedule, the four minutes that passed during the 5-mile final seemed like an hour, and when the mains touched down just inside the threshold, we both let out a sigh of relief. It was only after exiting the runway that we noticed the B-52 ahead of us awaiting its own taxi instructions.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways Start by setting up your approach correctly to ensure you arrive at the threshold perfectly every time. You can only begin improving the touchdown if you’ve mastered positioning your aircraft above the runway threshold correctly. Flying the Approach Haphazard approaches are very likely to lead to haphazard landings.

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Descent Weight-Shift-Control Crosswind Runway 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area. Usually, this is small, light aircraft used in general aviation(single-engine airplanes). Glideslope The glideslope (GS) provides us with vertical guidance.

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Knot Approach Distance Measuring Equipment Runway 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power. After all, pilots become used to moving the power to idle when crossing the runway threshold. Check out How to Perfect Your Airplane Landings.

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NOTAMs Runway Approach Descent 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

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. Conditions were about the same at Rochester, but the ILS-28 approach goes down to 200 feet and we broke out well before the runway threshold to make a standard landing. Still IFR, but barely.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 1964, Mock was the first woman to fly solo around the world in this airplane as described in her memoir, Three Eight Charlie. The first roadable airplane to be certified by the Civil Aviation Administration (forerunner to the FAA) in 1950 was invented by Robert Fulton, Jr. But it is an interesting curiosity. Cockpit of a DC-7.

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Airplanes General Aviation Cockpit Transponder 52

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. The aiming point at an actual short field should be as close to the threshold as is safe. Airplanes with higher wing loading may need power all the way until the flare. Downwind Phase Complete the before-landing checklist.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Density Altitude Descent 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

You should read up on the dangers of hypoxia to recognize all its signs and symptoms, but in general, you should: Begin using oxygen as soon as you reach the altitude thresholds set by the FAA or your personal limits. The oxygen concentration in an airplane at sea level is approximately 21 percent.

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Pilot Threshold Stability General Aviation 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 6, 2024

Unaided, with thresholds no worse than listed below: Sound Levels Ear Condition 500 Hz 1,000 Hz 2,000 Hz 3,000 Hz Better Ear 35 dB 30 dB 30 dB 40 dB Worse Ear 35 dB 50 dB 50 dB 60 dB Ear, Nose, and Throat The applicant must not have throat issues that could cause a speech problem. You can also take the pure tone audiometric test.

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Pilot Threshold Airplanes Knot 52

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Unable to turn, climb, or descend the aircraft using conventional flight control inputs and effectively left to fly an unflyable airplane, the crew were forced to rely on engine power alone to find and reach a suitable airfield and attempt a landing. With 296 passengers and crew onboard that day, the stakes could not have been higher.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 301

AV Web

MARCH 18, 2025

Weve been doing this for decades and we have observed that, depending on the type of airplane, 10 to 25 percent of the accidents arise out of engine power loss or stoppage (with big-bore engines being near the upper end of the range). Further it mandates a borescope inspection whenever a compression test is performed.

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Threshold Drag Airplanes General Aviation 57