Descent Jet 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
JUNE 10, 2025
minutes, covered 1,722 nm at an average ground speed of 511 knots, and burned 22,200 pounds of jet-A. This one is for an unstable approach due to an excessive descent rate (1,232 ft/min). I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8 degrees per second, and lifted off at a pitch attitude of 6.5
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Flying Magazine
JULY 3, 2025
Subscribe Now I texted my twin jet crew to get to the airport as soon as possible, then quickly planned the flight, ordered the fuel, and completed the preflight while my fellow crewmates arrived and got their pre-mission tasks accomplished. ForeFlight indicated we could reach there with a 900 fpm descent rate. No problem.
Pilot Institute
JULY 4, 2025
The areas marked red on the VSI show climb or descent rates that can put you on a collision course. Green markings show the climb or safe climb, or descent rates. This includes some business jets, turboprops, and regional airliners mandated to have it. TCAS RAs can only tell you to climb or descend. This is by design.
Flying Magazine
JUNE 20, 2025
The privately owned jet was at the end of an all-night flight that began on the East Coast around midnight local time. The pilot of the jet was the aircraft owner. Ring camera video from the event shows puddles of jet fuel burning and people running door to door to warn their neighbors of the danger. The jet flew for 3.5
Air Facts
AUGUST 1, 2025
I’d ridden in helicopters, C-130s, and even a white, unmarked Air Force jet outfitted with school bus seats and no toilet during various deployments. 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.
Flying Magazine
JULY 16, 2025
not often easy in a descent. Still, you’ll likely cross the threshold well above the recommended landing speed and float for quite a while as you slow. As a nerdy scientist trained to make observations, I’ve found that GA pilots have a propensity for coming in hot in conditions that hardly warrant a jet-like approach speed.
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