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.

Pilot 98

Pilot Knot AGL Final Approach 98

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

After all, I had just aced my checkride. At about one mile from the final approach fix, I put the Cessna into a high-speed dive towards the minimum descent altitude of 400 feet AGL. We were about 1/2 mile from the threshold. I had to keep precisely on the localizer centerline to find the runway threshold.

VOR 52

VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach. Sixty-six percent of the downwind-to-base stalls and a full 80 percent of base-to-final stalls resulted in death.

Final Approach 52

Final Approach Airplanes Drag Crosswind 52