Flying Magazine
JUNE 3, 2025
The rectangles are magenta when flying the active leg of a GPS flight plan, white when flying a GPS leg that is not active, and green when flying an ILS or localizer. Most of the time, jets fly long, straight-in instrument approaches, so pilots dont get much practice approaching a runway from other directions.
Air Facts
MARCH 5, 2025
You then execute a 180 o descending Final Turn maintaining 175 knots to arrive wings-level one mile from the threshold on final approach at 500 AGL. At that point, you slow to the final approach speed of 155 knots, which is held until crossing the approach-end overrun where you reduce power to touch down at 130 knots.
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iPad Pilot News
MARCH 11, 2025
Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. Traffic On Short Final – Alerts w hen on a runway, and ForeFlight detects another aircraft on a short final approach to that runway.
Flying Magazine
MAY 17, 2025
Flight Planning A pilot encountered 32-35 knot headwinds at cruise. The PIC wrote, Flight planning will be better done and executed to prevent such an incident from happening again. On final approach, the tower told him to go around. Fifteen minutes later, the engine failed.
Fear of Landing
MARCH 21, 2025
When an aircraft descends below 900 feet on final approach to land, TCAS stops issuing resolution advisories. On that evening, the Sikorsky UH-60L crew filed a flight plan for a night flight from Davison Army Airfield for the pilot’s annual standardisation evaluation with the use of night vision goggles.
Photographic Logbook
SEPTEMBER 21, 2024
Hello and Goodbye Final approach, runway 27L, Oakland County International ("Pontiac"). After that, the rest of the flight was utterly perfunctory. Because of low fog covering southern Michigan, Detroit Approach assigned me the RNAV-27L instrument approach procedure into Oakland County.
Fear of Landing
DECEMBER 6, 2024
A few hours later, the pilot obtained a weather briefing and filed an IFR flight plan before departing Westchester to fly back to Montgomery County. The pilot was instrument rated and the flight was on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan: that is, they did not have to stay visual for the flight.
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