Clearance Descent Threshold 
AV Web
MAY 6, 2025
If the airport is your home drome, and there is a big oak tree or a Walmart on final you can measure the distance from there to the threshold on a sunny day. Then as you fly over your designated landmark and see the threshold, you will know that you have the measured distance. Approach lighting systems are a known, published length.
Flying Magazine
JULY 3, 2025
ForeFlight indicated we could reach there with a 900 fpm descent rate. I also advised ATC of our impending total engine failure and asked for clearance to the nearest airfield. We are on short final, about to cross the field threshold, and I am 25 knots above my targeted landing speed (VREF).
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Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
I filed my IFR flight plan, received a clearance and took off into the gray winter sky. We entered the holding pattern over Jeff City, flew two circuits and finally received our approach clearance. It would also require a descent to 2,200 feet before crossing the outer marker. Phil was a cool head under pressure. I didnt know.
iPad Pilot News
MARCH 11, 2025
AGL (or when AGL is unknown), the descent rate exceeds 4,000 ft. AGL and the descent rate exceeds 3,000 ft. AGL, the descent rate is between 3000 ft. Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. per minute.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach. LNAV Approach An LNAV (Lateral Navigation) approach helps guide you left and right toward the runway, but it doesnt tell you how to control your descent. You use step-down altitudes at fixes here just like the LNAV method to manage your descent.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 20, 2025
The controller cleared the pilot for the approach, and when the airplane was about 10 miles northeast of the NESTY, an initial approach fix (IAF), the controller asked the pilot if he was going to “make your descent” and asked if he would like vectors to the south. The pilot acknowledged the clearance.
Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure
JUNE 17, 2025
So for passengers travelling to Milan, they can board through the Schengen level and for those flying to Singapore, they have to board through the non Schengen level and that also includes passport check and clearance. We waited for a while near the threshold to allow a few aircraft ahead of us to take off. We entered the runway.
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