Descent, Primary Flight Display and Threshold

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

Pilot Institute

JULY 4, 2025

You also get visual cues on the cockpit display, usually on the vertical speed indicator (VSI). 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. TCAS RAs can only tell you to climb or descend. This is by design.

Transponder

Transponder Air Traffic Control Pilot Cockpit

RNAV Approaches Simplified: A Guide for New Pilots

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach. LNAV Approach An LNAV (Lateral Navigation) approach helps guide you left and right toward the runway, but it doesnt tell you how to control your descent. You use step-down altitudes at fixes here just like the LNAV method to manage your descent.

Approach

Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes

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

RNAV Approaches Simplified: A Guide for New Pilots

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