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.
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.
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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.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
The Cessna 150 Since I was the only instrument rated pilot on the team, and the weather was marginal VFR, I chose to fly the 172, N7358G, up to Fairfield on an IFR flight plan above the clouds at 7,000 feet. My IFR flight plan called for a climb through some 4,000′ of clouds up to a cruise altitude of 7,000 feet.
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.
Air Facts
MAY 7, 2025
The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. We were able to break out of the clouds on long final approach; however, forward visibility was virtually impossible due to the windshield being almost totally covered with Ice.
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