Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

If you use an AATD for the first part of the experience, when you get into the actual aircraft, point out the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, etc. If the client is up to it, I coach them through some of the radio callsespecially the last one as we clear the active runway. that they just saw in the AATD.

Weather

Professional Pilot

JULY 7, 2025

A lighting the runway with under 1000 ft to go, the pilots breathed a sigh of relief. Because density and pressure are directly related, and pressure is easier to measure, we can use pressure altimeters to determine our altitude. inches of mercury (1013.25 Pressure altitude also serves an additional purpose.

Density Altitude

Northstar VFR

APRIL 20, 2025

Illusions Leading to Landing Errors Runway Width Illusion Terrain can also cause certain optical illusions. These illusions happen the most often during the landing phase of flight because they pertain to the runway. A major optical illusion in this category is runway width illusion.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

MAY 20, 2025

QNH sets the altimeter to msl, QFE to the destination field elevation so the altimeter will read zero upon landing. And speaking of tarmac, be prepared to meet some very crumbly taxiways and shabby runways. Do not mix up your QNH, QFE, or your QSYs. QSY indicates a radio frequency change.)

Altimeter

Fear of Landing

JANUARY 17, 2025

On the 29th of December 2024, a Boeing 737-800 operated by a low-cost South Korean airline crashed after an emergency landing and overshooting the runway at Muan International Airport in South Korea. They turned and attempted to land in the opposite direction of the runways operation that day, going north to south.

Thrust

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. If you dont see the runway before reaching MOLRE, you have to go missed. Thats up to you!

Approach

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Runway Changes (or Closure) Where possible, airplanes normally like to land in the wind. If the wind changes significantly, the airport authority may decide to change the runway. Yep, those runway numbers do mean something.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

Notice the altimeter needle swing up and down gently, up to a few hundred feet. They managed to bring the aircraft safely to a runway on engine control alone with zero fatalities. Recognizing Phugoid Motion in Flight How would you know youre caught in a phugoid cycle?

Stability

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

Under visual flight rules (VFR) during daytime, a pilot can operate with only basic gauges: an airspeed indicator, altimeter, compass, fuel gauges for each tank, and oil temperature, pressure, and engine RPM readings. Garmins synthetic vision uses 3D modeling that can depict terrain, obstacles, traffic, and runway environments.

Cockpit

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 locked into a steady scan: attitude, altimeter, turn coordinator, back to heading. I filed my flight plan and headed out.

Altimeter

Flying Magazine

MAY 23, 2025

Authorities investigating the deadly crash of a Cessna Citation S550 in San Diego on Thursday are looking at the possibility that a lack of current weather, specifically an altimeter setting at the destination airport, may have contributed to the accident. A lack of a correct altimeter setting can cause a pilot to fly at the wrong altitude.

Altimeter

Flying Magazine

MAY 28, 2025

READ MORE: Garmin Launches Pilot Web Flight Planner The user selects aircraft type, arrival/departure/approach transition fix, runway, and moreand the app does the rest to simplify the chart down to the information that they need to see to successfully brief and fly that procedure.

Approach

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.

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

JULY 28, 2025

He would jot down runway headings, hill elevations, and even phone numbers for farmers willing to provide weather updates. It’s even said that he would climb uncharted mountains with multiple altimeters to record accurate elevation information. It wasn’t much by today’s standards, but it was something.

Altimeter

Air Facts

JUNE 23, 2025

The third one saw the runway but couldn’t land. I looked at the altimeter: a round gauge, a needle moving counterclockwise, and unreadable numbers. If the controller told me to climb to 8,000 feet and turn to 300°, how was I supposed to comply if I couldn’t read the altimeter or the RMI? Then the runway. I looked again.

Altimeter

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Sculthorpe is still used on occasion by the USAF, but only the runways survive – albeit they are the longest runways in the county – and only a stones throw from West Raynham. The only flying single seat Vampire in Europe (the Norwegian Air Historic Flight Vampire FB.52 Also quite surreal.

Cockpit

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.

Altimeter

One Mile at a Time

JULY 20, 2024

Around 2hr50min after departure, the plane was on approach to runway 10 at Tampa Airport. As the plane was coming in over Tampa Bay, while around four miles from the runway, it descended as low as 150 feet, according to ADS-B data. Tampa’s altimeter is 30.14.” For now you can fly runway heading and climb and maintain 1,600.”

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The touchdown speed will have already been calculated using a combination of aircraft weight, length of runway in use, and prevailing conditions. If you are traveling towards the front of the cabin on an Airbus aircraft, you may also hear three ‘bleeps’ emanating from behind the flight deck door as the plane approaches the runway.

Cabin Crew

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

What is the headwind component for a landing on Runway 18 if the tower reports the wind as 215° at 30 knots? Determine the pressure altitude at an airport that is 1,300 feet MSL with an altimeter setting of 29.6. What effect does high density altitude have on aircraft performance? It increases takeoff performance.

Density Altitude

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. View of GPS track when viewed from landing runway (NTSB) At about 1.25 miles from the runway and left of the runway centre-line, the Mooney struck high-voltage power lines.

Approach

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Pilots use special paths called IFR approaches to help them line up with the runway. Minimums are the lowest height you can go without seeing the runway. Both MDA and DA are measured from sea level, just like the altimeter in the airplane. This is like DA but measured from the runway’s height above sea level.

Altimeter

Northstar VFR

JULY 28, 2023

As an inexperienced, aspiring pilot, you’ve surely heard the saying that “the least important thing in aviation is the runway behind you, the fuel left in the truck and altitude above you”. Before discussing the different types of altitude, let's discuss the one common thing every pilot uses in reference to altitude: The altimeter.

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

We both had a good chuckle, then we lurched out of the parking spot as I tested the toe brakes for the first time and began to waddle our way to the runway in the mighty Cessna 150. How they came to a stop holding short of the runway generally gave a preview as to how they would handle a plane for the rest of the flight.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Runway visual range (RVR) under 2,400 feet triggers a SPECI, and another is issued if it rises to 2,400 feet or more within 10 minutes. Well, these events can quickly affect visibility or runway conditions so much that they call for a special report. Runway visual range (RVR). Let’s look at each weather condition. Visibility.

Altimeter

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These range from passive red badges on flight plan waypoints and approach charts to identify NOTAMs and closed runways, to on-screen pop-ups accompanied by an aural message to make sure the app gets your attention. And the performance planning feature will warn you if computed takeoff or landing distances exceed available runway lengths.

Pilot

Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

Don walked me through engine start and within minutes of bringing the fuel-injected 180 horsepower Lycoming to life, we were taxiing from the 700 Ramp to the departure end of runway 25. The altimeter now showed 5,000' and we had plummeted through the altitude of the scattered cloud layer. How much altitude did you lose?"

Rudder

Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

So, for example, if you are asked to provide a scenario when V X is appropriate, be able to answer the when and the why, such as “short field takeoff technique is appropriate when there is an obstacle off the departure end of the runway.” Application, correlation, and understanding are critical when it comes to aircraft systems.

Pilot

iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Get the watch app here. Altimeter+ Display an altimeter flight instrument on your watch. Get the watch app here. ForeFlight This well-designed app displays airport weather, NOTAMs, communication frequencies, runway information and more.

Pilot

Air Facts

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Landing in Moriarty was somewhat odd and memorable, as I was expecting a busy airport with its long runways and did not encounter a single soul. I was certainly anxious as I lined up on runway 27 at Key West, knowing that upon clearing the end, that I would not see land in my single engine plane for 250 miles.

Weather

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Not only must you fly unnervingly slow, but you also have to pick a spot on the runway and hit it. It’s a runway that is too short for a normal takeoff or landing but still usable with certain precautions. This allows them to safely operate into and out of these tight runways. You’re not alone.

Weight-Shift-Control

Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They gave me a squawk code and the altimeter setting, and with that, the flight was underway. Finding KLEX Finding a 7,000-foot runway seems easy, right? I set up for a straight-in approach to Runway 22 about three miles out. Speed locked at 65 knots, I made a smooth touchdown right in the middle of the runway.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

We both had a good chuckle, then we lurched out of the parking spot as I tested the toe brakes for the first time and began to waddle our way to the runway in the mighty Cessna 150. How they came to a stop holding short of the runway generally gave a preview as to how they would handle a plane for the rest of the flight.

Rudder

CockPit Conversation

JULY 27, 2017

There are no controllers, but there is highly trained person in the tower, dispensing altimeter settings, and traffic information, and generally doing everything a tower controller does except issue clearances and instructions. I'm still twenty minutes out of the destination, so I'll have to pick up the new ATIS before I check in.

Altimeter

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But landing it safely on the runway is a skill. Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift. If you aren’t in alignment with the runway at 500 ft or are off speed or profile, go around. Brief the runway conditions.

Airplanes

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 3, 2025

and any adjustments to be made (runway lighting out of service, remote altimeter setting, etc.). Details shows communication frequencies, runway length, general notes, and expiration dates. Consider the ILS 19 at Teterboro, which often leads to a circle-to-land on runway 24a very complicated landing.

NOTAMs

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

The altimeter started slipping. Right where he expected it, the runway lighting broke through the mist. In an instant, the world outside vanished into a milky blur. The instruments in front of him were sharp and bright, but overwhelming. His scan fell apart within seconds. His heading wandered. His instructor didnt say a word.

Pilot