Altimeter Descent Runway 
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
A few minutes later, we heard the center controller clear a Trans Missouri Airlines commuter plane for the VOR Runway 30 approach to Jefferson City. In eight minutes, we would be a pile of bent aluminum in some field short of the runway. How can this be? To continue the approach was no longer an option. His words were a shock!
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Lateral guidance tells you to go left or right to align yourself with the runway. Heres how you decide: If you can see the runway (or certain lights or markers for the runway) when you reach the DH, you can keep going and land. Instead of a Decision Height (DH), youll use something called a Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA).
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Air Facts
JUNE 4, 2025
Taxiing to Runway 06, I ran through the before-takeoff checklist: fuel selector both, flaps up, mixture rich, lights on. I focused on the panel: attitude indicator, heading indicator, altimeter. I acknowledged and began a gentle descent. I locked into a steady scan: attitude, altimeter, turn coordinator, back to heading.
Pilot Institute
JUNE 2, 2025
Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. Notice the altimeter needle swing up and down gently, up to a few hundred feet. The Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) will show a cycle of shallow climbs and descents. As it descends, it regains speed.
Plane and Pilot
JULY 1, 2025
A witness reported that they saw the airplane lift off from the runway and remain in ground effect until it crossed the departure end of the runway. As it crossed the departure end of the runway, it was in a left bank and then struck a tree, then came down in shallow water off a public beach.
Aerotime
DECEMBER 20, 2024
We will also examine the next most critical phase of our flight, from descent and deceleration to the approach and landing phases, even touching upon what happens when the aircraft arrives safely at the gate. Mario Hagen / Shutterstock The announcement will also be one of the first items on the pilots before-descent checklist.
Fear of Landing
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Runway 14, a 4,202 foot runway , was in use. The pilot is not to descend below these altitudes until they can see the runway lights. The controller confirmed a descent to 3,000 feet, the minimum safe altitude for BEGKA. View of GPS track when viewed from landing runway (NTSB) At about 1.25 At waypoint JOXOX, 2.3
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