Descent Hangar Knot 
Photographic Logbook
MAY 25, 2025
I cancelled the flight to my hometown due to a combination of strong winds aloft, surface winds forecast at 20-something knots gusting to 30-something knots, and potential for IFR conditions and icing to boot. Toronto Center, Cherokee Four Eight One is picking up ice and needs a descent to 5,000 feet." Too many strikes.
Plane and Pilot
APRIL 28, 2025
We need to slow to 87 knots and we can push this lever here, he said, pointing to the release lever between the seats. Walt trimmed for 85 knots and we watched for a light. Eighty knots, nothing. The speed and descent rate looked about right to me, but what did I know of Pipers? Yeah, right, he said. Lets do that, I said.
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Flying Magazine
JULY 18, 2025
When I visited the company’s Olathe, Kansas, engineering hangar to see a G5000 retrofit in progress, Garmin’s Dave Brown made a good point about these older turbine airframes needing a refresh. There’s also automatic low airspeed protection when below VMCA, plus 15 knots indicated. It’s a huge project.
Fullthrottle Aviation
FEBRUARY 19, 2022
The question came up on a group on social media where a student was asking the community how to perform the Emergency Descent maneuver (PA.IX.A). Establish and maintain the appropriate airspeed and configuration appropriate to the scenario specified by the evaluator and as covered in POH/AFM for the emergency descent. PA.IX.A.S4
Fear of Landing
APRIL 19, 2024
The helicopter turned left to return to the airport, travelling at about 85 knots. The indicated airspeed had fallen below 65 knots and was still decreasing. The helicopter was at treetop height with an indicated airspeed of zero knots when the right yaw ceased. The pilot reported two miles out.
Photographic Logbook
MAY 19, 2025
Enter Tango Whiskey Aviation , an aerobatic flight school with operations at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester Area International Airport (KROC) and the Williamson-Sodus Airport (KSDC) where we share bays in the same hangar building. On short final, I established a steady descent rate and a stable sideslip to the left. "A
Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. We had a deal.
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