Final Approach Flight Plan Threshold 
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
Once wings-level on the Inside Downwind, you lower the gear and flaps and, approximately one mile beyond the landing threshold, you reduce power at The Perch. 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.
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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.
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.
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.
Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure
MARCH 13, 2025
This aircraft pushed back later than it should and that cause a delay to our flight's planned departure. Our aircraft needed some time to prepare for the return flight and we only boarded the aircraft about 25 minutes before our schedule departure time. At the threshold, we were cleared to depart. We started descending.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
I logged the information of my flight from Lawson Army Airfield (KLSF) at Fort Benning, Georgia, where I was stationed, to Newnan-Coweta County Airport (KCCO), then to Alexander City, Alabama (KALX), and back to Lawson. Filing a flight plan was not necessary, but I logged it on the clubhouse flight board.
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