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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on Holland Accident

Flying Magazine

” The aircraft came to rest in a grass ditch about 100 feet from the left side of Runway 08 and 500 feet beyond the approach threshold. The cockpit and instrument panel displayed impact-related damage, and several instruments were dislodged and located around the cockpit. The elevator was intact and remained attached.

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Flying Visual Approaches? Synthetic Vision Pathways Can Help

Flying Magazine

If you’ve flown in a Garmin glass cockpit with synthetic vision, then you may have seen the Pathways feature, a series of constantly moving rectangles on the primary flight display (PFD). Candidly, Ive never liked Pathways, so I was delighted to recently find a good use for them. Heres the tip. And you dont have to do any math.

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Avionics and cockpit automation

Professional Pilot

While it may be common to find some very spartan instrumentation on an open cockpit biplane at the local fly-in, the level of complexity increases exponentially in turboprops and jet cockpits. Technically, even a cockpit lighting rheostat qualifies as avionics, but pilots typically associate the term with advanced technology.

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Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 makes heavy landing in Los Angeles: video 

Aerotime

However, as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, the footage appears to show the aircraft making little attempt to arrest its rate of descent or initiate a flare by raising its nose to bleed off any excess airspeed before it touches down. It departed LAX at 16:06 local time and landed in Frankfurt at 11:14 the following morning.

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Teaching International Student Pilots

Air Facts

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.

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

Flying Magazine

minutes, achieve stable approach at 1,552 feet, cross the threshold at 44 feet, touch down 1,542 feet down the runway, and disconnect the autobrakes at 91 knots. What changed? FOQA was developed as a collaborative effort by the FAA, the airlines, and ALPA and other pilot unions, all of whom agreed the data would never be used punitively.

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Check Ride Jitters

Plane and Pilot

The Cessna was loud, and this was before intercoms made cockpits a quieter place to be. The visibility had dropped to almost zero as we crossed the threshold. shouted Bill. Id lost my voice. How would I talk on the radio? I was beginning to feel sick to my stomach. Bill sat rigid in the right seat, looking straight out.