Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. It also allows you to focus on flying during the last stages of the approach and landing. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Final Approach 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. Approach Lighting System (ALS) The ALS helps the pilot transition from instrument flying to visual flying. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area.

Knot 52

Knot Approach Distance Measuring Equipment Runway 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

This Austrian Airbus A320 surprisingly turned up at my assigned gate A36, so I wasn't surprised when there was an announcement regarding a gate change for my flight, we were relocated to A26 before the final gate change at gate A24. Do you like the racoon style cockpit? This was my flight's final assigned gate.

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Airlines Airline Weather Turbulence 52

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

He used the first officer’s airspeed indicator and visual cues out of the cockpit windows to determine the flight path of the plane and the need for any power changes. The approach to Sioux City With the aircraft at a range of about nine miles from touchdown at Sioux City, the crew made visual contact with the airport.

Runway 301

Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 301

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. Examination of the accident site confirmed flight-control continuity from the cockpit to all flight control surfaces. Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach.

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Final Approach Airplanes Drag Crosswind 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I reached into the cockpit instantly and pulled the throttle to idle. As I approached the river, the plane started to settle faster than it had. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. It dawned on me what probably happened on my final approach.

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Threshold Runway Approach AGL 72

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 3, 2024

This lesson was rapidly approaching for Alyssa. A multi-state cross country trip like the one we were taking means a lot of time together in the close confines of an airplane cockpit. While company is generally welcome, it can be a long and awkward ride if personalities do not mesh well.

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Airplanes Runway Weather Approach 93

Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

One of the most important lessons learned was that the one thing you don’t check on the exterior preflight inspection, or cockpit setup, is the very thing that will be wrong. What if the airplane pitched over on final approach? It was like an old and friendly family dog who suddenly bites its owner for no obvious reason.

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Airplanes Lift Runway Tail 97

Air Facts

AUGUST 28, 2024

To make matters more stressful, I was getting a line check by an FAA inspector who was sitting behind me in the cockpit jump seat. From the threshold to taxiway D5 gave me a little over 5,000 feet to land and stop. He would obviously see me deviate from SOP by not crossing the threshold on the glide slope and may write me up over it.

Threshold 98

Threshold Runway Approach Pilot in Command 98