Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Using the VSI and Altimeter for Stability The vertical speed indicator and altimeter are your best tools for maintaining a steady altitude. Although they each provide specific information, using them together will give you a better picture of your stability. In a climb or descent, this is just as true.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Initiating a Power-off Stall Now, let’s dive into the stall: Reduce Power Simulate Approach Descent Watch for Stall Warnings 1. Now that the aircraft is in landing configuration, reduce your power to idle and pitch down to simulate an approach descent. The result will be a descent and a loss in altitude while airspeed increases.

Descent

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

These forces must work in harmony to maintain flight stability. It requires managing descent rates, aligning with the runway, and controlling speed for a smooth touchdown. Lift is generated by the wings as air flows over them, counteracting weight, which pulls the plane downward due to gravity.

Weather

Professional Pilot

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As wildfire air attack missions are highly demanding, the TBM 960s designed-in safety and situational awareness benefits for Conairs operations include: Dahers digital e-copilot technology for electronic stability, under-speed protection, and an emergency descent mode; the EPECS single-lever, dual-channel digital control for the engine and propeller; (..)

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Keep a close eye on your airspeed, descent rate, and alignment, adjusting controls as needed. Smaller planes may feel more affected, while larger aircraft have better stability. Maintain a stable approach speed, slightly above your normal landing speed, to help control the aircraft. What are the primary crosswind landing techniques?

Crosswind

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

It was a decision I would soon regret… We transitioned from the holding pattern to the outbound leg of the VOR approach and began a descent to 2,700 feet, the minimum altitude for that leg of the approach. The ice was simultaneously adding weight while destroying the shape of the wing and stabilizer air foils. I didnt know.

VOR

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. This means that they have to be effective enough to counter the aircrafts inherent lateral stability. Lateral stability depends on the aircrafts design. What Materials Are Used in Ailerons?

Aileron

Flying Magazine

JULY 18, 2025

It has smart power management cues for securing a failed engine with the OEI ESP (one engine inoperative electronic stability and protection) feature. The displays are touchscreen, plus there’s a QWERTY keypad and radio tuning knob console.

Flight Deck

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Weve recently seen rockets and spacecraft such as SpaceXs Falcon 9 and Starship land themselves tail first using engines to slow the descent and touch down gently. This law helps understand what lifts wings, propels rockets, stabilizes helicopters, steers jets, and even helps bring the aircraft to a stop.

Torque

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 27, 2025

The stability of the spinning disc increases with an increase in mass or speed of the disc. It may take a few seconds to several minutes for the gyroscope inside the AI to stabilize and the instrument to indicate correctly. This information is used to determine altitude, rate of climb or descent (i.e.,

Pitot Tube

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In seconds, an aircraft can be forced into an uncontrollable descent, leaving you with barely any time to react. An aircraft might experience a brief lift due to a strong headwind, only to be forced into an uncontrolled descent as the wind suddenly reverses. Formation of Microbursts Where does it all start?

Wind Shear

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

Well discuss how phugoid motion relates to your aircrafts stability, what you can do to counter it, and even look at what it can do to an aircraft in severe cases. Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. What can make an aircraft do that?

Stability

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The descent profile. This perspective makes the descent path easier to understand. At this point you should start descending to the Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA). That V represents the Visual Descent Point or VDP. This will give you a stabilized, manageable descent to the runway. Approach minima.

Approach

Flying Magazine

JULY 31, 2025

Additional safety features include the Blue Level button, electronic stability and protection (ESP), and automated descent mode for hypoxia scenarios. Dual WAAS GPS, comm, and nav radios support IFR operations, with an enhanced GFC700 autopilot enabling fully coupled approaches and holds.

Descent

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Depending on the warm air’s stability, this process can form different kinds of clouds. If conditions get too rough near descent, don’t hesitate to delay or hold off until it’s safe to continue. Remember that holding or delaying descent is always a wise option if conditions get worse during your approach.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The aircraft exhibited poor directional stability (which was solved through the later addition of a ventral tail fin) at low speeds and oil sometimes splattered on the canopy’s windscreen. On May 18, 1945, the T-31 turboprop was finally ready and by June 11, the aircraft was ready to begin testing with its intended engine at Muroc.

Thrust

Flying Magazine

JUNE 20, 2025

The controller cleared the pilot for the approach, and when the airplane was about 10 miles northeast of the NESTY, an initial approach fix (IAF), the controller asked the pilot if he was going to “make your descent” and asked if he would like vectors to the south. The pilot answered, “I think we’ll be alright.”

Knot

Professional Pilot

JULY 2, 2025

The TBM 960 benefits from a full range of TBM e-copilot functions: an icing protection system; flight envelope monitoring through the Electronic Stability and Protection (ESP) and the Under- speed Protection (USP) systems; the Emergency Descent Mode (EDM) function; as well as the HomeSafe emergency autoland system.

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Reasons include unstable approaches (excessive descent rate or incorrect airspeed), runway obstructions (vehicles, other aircraft, wildlife), sudden wind shifts or gusts, traffic conflicts, or ATC instructions. Retract flaps to the go-around setting per POH, then raise remaining flaps as climb speed is stabilized.

Air Traffic Control

Northstar VFR

MARCH 23, 2025

Remember the secret to a good landing is beginning with a good, stabilized approach! There are several criteria that must be met for a pilot to descend below Decision Altitude/Decision Height (DA/DH) or Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA) on an instrument approach.

Pilot

Flight Training Central

MAY 11, 2025

Also check on the schools financial stability and refund policy in the event you must withdraw for whatever reason and always be cautious of paying large sums of money up front. The instructor will show you a normal takeoff, basic maneuvers (straight and level flight, turns, descents, etc.) and a normal landing.

Pilot

AV Web

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Once youve got the airplane stabilized but are unable to resolve the partial power loss, its time to start getting this thing on the ground. The last thing you want to do is make a normal descent and landing. If youre talking to ATC, you should go ahead and declare the emergency.

Runway

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Fixed-Wing Foibles Consider the Airbus first officer (FO) who tried to satisfy ATCs request to increase their descent (rate), so he engaged open descent mode. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Other than that, what?

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

not often easy in a descent. Adobe Stock] Get Back to Basics As instrument pilots, the importance of the stabilized approach was hammered into our heads during training. You’re probably familiar with the routine from the TRACON: “Cessna 123, maintain your best forward speed, Boeing 737 in trail.”

Approach

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 2, 2025

When the Osprey had accomplished its mission, its operator would command the drone to cut its engine and deploy two parachutes to slow its descent, while special nylon airbags would inflate at the nose and wing section to cushion its unpowered landing, allowing it to be recovered intact by Army specialists.

Descent

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

While the report draws no conclusions as to the cause of the crash, investigators set out a detailed timeline which focuses heavily on the Mitsubishi CRJ900s descent. TSB At a height of 50 feet the rate of descent had increased to 1114 feet per minute (fpm) from 672 fpm around 14 seconds before. to the right, the TSB said.

Indicated Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, the capstone of all these efforts was the adoption of stabilized approach criteria and procedures on every approach and landing. So, What Is a Stabilized Approach? In fact, the verbal callout “stabilized” is part of the checklist. This definitely does not meet the FAA description of a stabilized approach and landing.

Stability

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We will also examine the next most critical phase of our flight, from descent and deceleration to the approach and landing phases, even touching upon what happens when the aircraft arrives safely at the gate. Mario Hagen / Shutterstock The announcement will also be one of the first items on the pilots before-descent checklist.

Cabin Crew

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As the engines spool up, the crew will initially increase the power slightly to stabilize the engines and ensure that they power up as commanded, before increasing to full power and releasing the brakes, propelling the aircraft down the runway. Part two will soon be available on AeroTime. Be sure to keep a good look out for it.

Cabin Crew

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

If there’s a hill to climb, there are two options: Leave the throttle alone, and the car (airplane) will climb the hill but slow down and stabilize at a slower speed going up the hill. For example, in a 200-feet-per-minute descent, a typical light plane will only gain a little speed. Does that mean too fast, too high, or a combination?

Airplanes

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

Perhaps just prior to the start of descent could be the optimum time–certainly completed no later than commencement of approach. Recall that we must remain at or above MDA until we are in a normal position to perform a normal rate of descent to landing. Will the vertical speed necessary comply with required descent criteria?

Approach

AV Web

AUGUST 28, 2024

Piper adds: “the Garmin G3000 avionics suite includes; Autothrottle, Emergency Descent Mode, Electronic Stability Protection, SurfaceWatch, SafeTaxi, and Garmin PlaneSync. At normal cruise (292 ktas), range is 1,424 nm. The Fury comes with the certified FIKI system and Garmin Autoland.

True Airspeed

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The controller confirmed a descent to 3,000 feet, the minimum safe altitude for BEGKA. There was no real way of testing the stability of everything that high up. At the point of the visual descent (visual should perhaps be in quotes here), the Mooney was still a mile and a half from the runway but flying at 587 feet.

Approach

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Just as an excessive climb or descent will cause you to overshoot altitude, an excessive rate of turn results in overshooting the target heading. Fine tune power and pitch as the airplane stabilizes at the new airspeed. DESCENTS As the airspeed approaches the descent speed, lower the nose to the predetermined attitude.

Descent

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 4, 2024

This location delivers visitors to the top of the highest portion of the dune characterized by a steep, 400 foot descent to the surface of Lake Michigan. Even Alyssa, the biggest daredevil in our group, noped out of that climb as she pondered the steep descent to Lake Michigan. Alicia and Tom at the Lake Michigan overlook.

Descent

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

However, if you take a close look at the inboard upper wing surface of the B-52, you will see a neat row of vortex generators that correspond to the width of the horizontal stabilizer. These were added to manage the low speed air flow over the wings, stabilizer and elevators.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Key Takeaways Bounced landings can result from excessive speed, improper flare, or high descent rates. Improper Flare Technique The flare is a maneuver where you elevate the aircraft’s nose slightly just before landing to decrease the descent rate. Use power as necessary to control the descent rate.

Descent