Altimeter Final Approach Runway 
Fear of Landing
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Whether or not there were issues with CRM or in the approach, there is no evidence at this time that either pilot had struggled through their training or were anything less than qualified for their positions. The wing tip struck the runway after which the wing and the tail separated and the fuel from the wing caught fire.
Vintage Aviation News
JANUARY 30, 2025
“When I heard we were in the first wave of six planes going down the runway at 200 feet, I elected to sit on mine,” he said. After the 8 1/2 hour, 1,182-mile flight from Midway, Connolly led the first six planes down the runway at Wake in a stepped-up V-formation. But lets not forget its big advantage!
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Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
I got out my instrument approach chart and studied the holding pattern and the VOR approach procedure. 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. To continue the approach was no longer an option. I had to land.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
How do the approaches differ from each other? Type of Guidance Instrument approaches offer two types of navigational guidance. Lateral guidance tells you to go left or right to align yourself with the runway. Vertical guidance lets you know youre too high or too low on your approach path. Thats up to you!
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.
Air Facts
JUNE 23, 2025
As each airplane ahead of me began their approach, I descended in the holding pattern. The third one saw the runway but couldn’t land. I crossed the VOR, turned to the final approach course, lowered the landing gear and flaps, adjusted power, prop, and mixture, started the clock, and began descending toward the MDA.
Simple Flying
JULY 23, 2024
On a foggy winter morning in February 2009, Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, using a Boeing 737-800, was on a seemingly routine final approach into Amsterdams Schiphol Airport when it suddenly stalled and fell out of the sky about a mile from the runway.
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