Ceiling Descent NOTAMs 
Flight Training Central
MARCH 31, 2025
Approach lighting systems are critical during low ceiling and low visibility conditions when you must decide whether to continue to land or execute a missed approach. If a NOTAM indicates part of the lighting system is out of service, refer to the inoperative components table to make adjustments to the landing minimums.
Flying Magazine
JULY 22, 2025
We experimented with varying descents from an emergency descent profile—from coming down at nearly 10,000 fpm to seeing if we could cure being high and fast on an arrival procedure. When that big Hartzell prop flattens out, it produces a lot of drag that lets one nicely fine-tune speed and rate of descent.
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Flying Magazine
JUNE 20, 2025
The weather at the time of the accident included an AIRMET active for IFR conditions with ceilings below 1,000 feet and visibility less than 3 miles due to fog and mist. The LPV has lower weather minimums of the two, as it requires a ceiling of 673 feet versus 750 for the LNAV. The airplane crossed PALOS, located 2.9
Flying Magazine
MAY 30, 2025
He lost 200 feet before even noticing the descent. If a NOTAM changes the minimums, or if convective SIGMETs pop up along your route, a printed page will not tell you. Most EFBs today integrate weather overlays, NOTAMs, and airport status reports directly into their charts and flight planning modules. Ceilings drop.
Air Facts
MAY 10, 2024
An acceptable meteorological combination of ceiling, visibility, and wind. Perhaps just prior to the start of descent could be the optimum time–certainly completed no later than commencement of approach. Any NOTAMS applicable? Will the vertical speed necessary comply with required descent criteria?
Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
A NOTAM closing Alton Bay was still active until 7:00 am that morning. As expected, the NOTAM closing the ice runway did expire and no new notification replaced it. Weather conditions on Groundhog Day were better than the week prior, characterized by a high ceiling and no thin screen of clouds hiding the ground from view.
iPad Pilot News
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Get the watch app here. ForeFlight This well-designed app displays airport weather, NOTAMs, communication frequencies, runway information and more. It also includes complications to show the current ceiling or surface winds for a favorite airport ( read our full review of the ForeFlight Watch app here ).
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