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Pilot, Know Thyself: Discovering What It Means to Be Painfully Average

Flying Magazine

This one is for an unstable approach due to an excessive descent rate (1,232 ft/min). degree glideslope, high density altitude, and an approach speed of 150 knots, all of which put our nominal descent rate very close to the book maximum of 1,000 ft/min. What changed? Before FlightPulse, I probably wouldn’t have remembered it.

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Step-by-Step Guide to No-Flaps Landings for Pilots

Pilot Institute

The flaps on an aircraft are used for controlled descents with slower airspeed during the approach and landing. When landing without flaps, pilots must adjust their techniques to compensate for higher approach speeds, a shallow descent angle, and longer landing distances. What is the purpose of flaps? Pre-Landing Checklist 1.

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What Is TCAS? A Comprehensive Guide to Traffic Collision Avoidance Systems

Pilot Institute

Pilots constantly watch out of the cockpit windows, and air traffic control monitors traffic in the airspace. Pilots themselves scan for traffic by looking out the cockpit windows. The system will announce “ Traffic, traffic, ” and on your cockpit display the intruding aircraft will be highlighted (often in yellow).

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Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights

iPad Pilot News

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.

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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on San Diego Crash

Flying Magazine

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. nm from the runway 28R displaced threshold, at 03:46 a.m.

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Solo, But Not Alone

Air Facts

I sat in the cockpit of the old Tecnam P92-JS Echo, tail number I-GITR. We had practiced tacchi a terra (heels down on the pedals), ascents, descents, turns, volo lento (slow flight), stalls, and landing with engine and flap failures. I taxied alone to the threshold of runway 17. I knew this milestone was approaching.

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Experiencing Air France Airbus A220-300 (Part 2: CDG-BCN)

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

A peek of the A220 cockpit The emergency row Inflight snack and beverage We were given a packet of biscuit and a choice of beverage, orange juice for this case. At this point, we reached the threshold of the runway. After an hour of flying, we started our descent into Barcelona. Time to leave the aircraft.