Aerotime

MAY 22, 2024

According to Times of India, the B777-330ER, with registration A6-ENT, was descending to make its final approach on the airport’s runway 27 when it crossed paths with a flock of flamingos flying north to Kutch, a known feeding and breeding ground.

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Final Approach Approach Runway Airline 261

AV Web

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The King Air was on a 2-mile final approach to runway 33, while the American flight was directed to hold short of runway 1, waiting for another aircraft to clear the runway. The local controller informed American about additional traffic on a 6-mile final for runway 1, which the crew acknowledged with an accurate readback.

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Clearance Runway Final Approach Approach 96

Flyertalk

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

On Monday, November 11, 2024, Spirit Airlines Flight 951 was hit by gunfire during the final approach to the airport in Port-au-Prince. Airspace Closed After Gun Violence Affects Aircraft The move by the FAA comes after several aircraft from American carriers were struck by gunfire while operating over Haiti.

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AV Web

JULY 21, 2024

At that point in the GPS approach, the aircraft should have been at 1,600 feet. There was convective weather in the area, and a previous flight reported that the worst was about seven miles out on the final approach to 7,000-foot-long Runway 10.

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Final Approach Approach Runway Weather 96

Flight Training Central

MAY 29, 2024

This week’s tip shows how to fly a stabilized final approach and help you visualize the steps necessary to transition from the roundout and flare to the touchdown. Landing an airplane is one of the most challenging, yet satisfying tasks you’ll learn to master on your path towards becoming a private pilot.

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Airplanes Final Approach Stability Approach 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 18, 2024

Then on the return flight back to Jacksonville’s Craig field, Spencer shows how to work with ATC in a busy traffic pattern, where 4 planes are lined up on the final approach leg in the sequence to land.

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Final Approach Approach Pilot 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Subscribe Now Featured A) Two Radials Depicted From the STL VOR, there are two radials depicted that intersect with the final approach path—the R-144 and the R-194. C) FAF Identification No DME is offered for this approach, but you could use an IFR GPS to help with identification of the final approach fix waypoint at the EAVES LOM.

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VOR Final Approach Approach NDB 59

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This approach chart, also called an approach plate, provides all the information you need to fly a VOR approach. Initial Approach Fix (IAF): This is a specific point where the approach procedure starts, allowing you to set up the aircraft with the inbound course for the final approach.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

The accident happened as the pilot was attempting to fly the RNAV 20 approach, which takes the aircraft directly over the potato processing plant with numerous vent stacks constantly in operation. The standard for airspeed after passing the final approach fix was 120 kias indicated, according to the Flight Maneuvers Description Manual (FMDM).

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Pilot Descent Aeronautical Information Manual Approach 122

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Challenger 604, G-IV Contributing Writer Pilatus PC-12 on approach at ORL. Air traffic control instructions often lead to unstable approaches. The request to make a short approach or maintain a higher-than-normal speed to the final approach fix is the most common reason pilots don’t meet stable approach criteria.

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Fly With Stan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Not every day we get the chance to pass under the rainbow arc just on the final approach. Looks like the autumn is starting here as well, some precipitations will be coming, which is good after all those dry months.

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Final Approach Weather Approach 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 28, 2024

a long straight in final approach to the active runway. Runway 27 and expect a crosswind from the right. The recommended entry position to an airport traffic pattern is 45° to the base leg just below traffic pattern altitude. to enter 45° at the midpoint of the downwind leg at traffic pattern altitude. right-quartering headwind.

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Crosswind Runway Air Traffic Control Clearance 98

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

An IFR pilot will run the GUMPS checklist before passing the final approach fix. Leading you to become too high and too fast on the approach. Final Approach The last turn will be from base to final. If flying IFR, most approaches will align you perfectly with the runway. So, what does GUMPS stand for?

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

Inspire

JUNE 15, 2021

Crazy wind gusts on final approach with very poor visibility through the windshield made for a very close call that could have been a disaster. A summer thunderstorm in Tennessee quickly turned a very nice sunset flight into a landing nightmare. The post Lessons Learned: When Not to Fly first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Final Approach Approach Airplanes Hangar 40

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

ATC gave me a priority approach and landing in the lake. On final approach to the water another awful wave of pain ran through me making this landing a one-shot event in my mind. The cars were both there waiting when we docked.

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Final Approach Approach Pilot Runway 98

iPad Pilot News

MAY 31, 2024

After loading a full approach procedure on the Maps screen, ATC advises that you should now expect vectors to intercept the final approach course. Tap the green instrument approach name in the Route Editor, and select Activate Vectors to Final. How can you quickly update your flight plan from the Maps screen?

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Final Approach Approach Flight Plan NOTAMs 52

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The final approach speed for a soft field approach and landing should be the same as is used for a short field technique to minimuze float once you enter ground effect. If gusty conditions are present, increase final approach airspeed by one half the gust factor. VS0 should be used.

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Approach Ground Effect Final Approach Airplanes 52

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 7, 2024

Last year, the app added Traffic on Runway alerts to notify pilots about potential conflicts between aircraft on final approach with another aircraft on the runway. In recent years, ForeFlight has made great strides in using this ADS-B traffic data to better alert pilots of potential hazards beyond en-route avoidance.

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Turbulence Runway Airplanes AGL 98

Flight Training Central

MAY 30, 2024

Although approaches done on a non-certified system do not count towards the required FAA 61.57 recency of experience requirements, the act of practicing approaches can still be very beneficial to keep your IFR procedures sharp and your instrument scan from getting rusty.

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Fear of Landing

AUGUST 9, 2024

Note here the base leg, which is a common point to join the pattern ready for the turn to final approach and the runway. The gyroplane was on the base leg, approaching the runway from the south. There were two helicopters ahead: one on the base leg and one in final approach.

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Runway Cockpit Pilot Final Approach 96

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

What speed on final approach? Speed should be target (Vref) + 10 kts, in full landing configuration until the final approach segment. Non-towered airports greatly raise the possibility of traffic conflicts. What specific indicated airspeed will be flown/adhered to during the circling maneuver?

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Approach AGL Descent Runway 97

Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here, the T-design includes two initial approach fixes that follow a straight-line that is perpendicular to the intermediate course segment which connect at the dual-purpose fix, ULUFA. ULUFA functions as both an intermediate fix, and an initial approach fix, denoted IF/IAF on the chart.

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Approach Clearance Air Traffic Control Final Approach 52

ABEAM

JULY 5, 2024

In Kuwait, we were told to expect the ILS of runway 33R approach, but when getting near to the ILS, Approach kept us high and even vectored us through the final approach course. Luckily the temperature had dropped to 39°C already there.

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VOR Density Altitude Approach Final Approach 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

Back in the early days of jet airliners, pilots long experienced in more forgiving two- and four-engine, piston-powered prop planes found themselves running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas on the final approach to landing. Several of these unstabilized approaches resulted in major aircraft damage or worse. Simple as that.

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Stability Approach Runway Pilot 66

Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

” As I broke out of the clouds on the final approach course, I flew about 1.5 The approach end of runway 24 came into view, followed by the rest of the airport as we entered the left downwind to runway 6. Any thought that this could be the last and “final” approach I’d ever fly never entered my mind.

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Descent Approach Weather AGL 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The RNAV approach to the 7,000-foot Runway 31 that snakes around from the Runway 4 extended centerline, loops past Citi Field, and rolls out on a tight-in final approach. I spent our 82-minute flight to New York’s crown jewel of airports explaining the intricacies and idiosyncrasies that go with landing there.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The RNAV approach to the 7,000-foot Runway 31 that snakes around from the Runway 4 extended centerline, loops past Citi Field, and rolls out on a tight-in final approach. I spent our 82-minute flight to New York’s crown jewel of airports explaining the intricacies and idiosyncrasies that go with landing there.

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Runway Approach Knot Jet 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

As we maneuvered for the approach, we passed through an invisible rain shower in the darkness of sufficient vigor that the sound of rain ticking on the windshield penetrated our headsets. Ground team! Fortunately -- and remarkably consistent with the forecast -- the rain stayed south of the airport.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A Spanish pilot was killed and three others on board the flight were injured when a DHL Boeing 737-400 freighter crashed during its final approach into Vilnius Airport. According to LRT , representatives from Spain and Germany will also arrive in Lithuania to investigate the crash.

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Final Approach Cargo Approach Pilot 293

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

When Running Out of Fuel is the Least of Your Problems A flight instructor and student’s trip to Arizona took an unexpected turn on the return flight, when they ran out of fuel on final approach to Oceanside, CA. They landed on the highway at 1:30am local time. But that’s not the story.

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Air Facts

APRIL 24, 2024

That was the longest, most terrifying final approach—actually the only terrifying final approach—I’ve ever experienced. All was tranquil in Cross City, Florida, and we were glad to be there, at our newly chosen destination, all in one piece.

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Turbulence Wind Shear Final Approach Ceiling 52

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

With the landing gear down but without the use of the wing leading-edge slats and trailing-edge flaps, there was little the crew could do to control the stricken aircraft’s approach speed, other than through variable engine power settings.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

If you’re approaching from the final approach side of the runway and there is only one airplane entering downwind, sidestep to the upwind leg and fly parallel to the runway before turning crosswind. Again, the key is to avoid a collision, not follow some FAA diagram to within an inch.

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Crosswind Airplanes Approach Runway 98

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You’ll quickly learn the importance of speed control on final approach and how to make real-world use of the soft-field takeoff and landing techniques. If you and your instructor determine runway and braking conditions are suitable, continue on with your lesson.

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Weather Runway Airplanes NOTAMs 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I used this trick when flying into Nashville recently and was able to determine they were using the ILS or RNAV Runway 20L approach and using runway 20C for departures. All of this was observed by tracking another airplane’s final approach course on the map while I was still 250 miles southeast of the airport.

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Clearance Weather Approach Runway 52

Simple Flying

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

A flight arriving at Washington National Airport on October 31st encountered an alleged bird strike on its final approach to the Capital. Then, the Airbus A319 engine failed, requiring a mayday call before diverting to Washington Dulles.

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Final Approach Approach Pilot Airline 105

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 1, 2024

Lined up on final approach for runway 34 at Jaffrey. Given the sight picture on final approach, I could only agree. Just as I had this thought, a 20+ knot wind aloft made turbulent by the terrain to the north began to batter all three airplanes. The last fifteen minutes to Jaffrey were a slog through rough air.

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