AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach. Sixty-six percent of the downwind-to-base stalls and a full 80 percent of base-to-final stalls resulted in death.

Final Approach

Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

The pilot applied right rudder in an attempt to correct this, resulting in a ground loop. The student turned early onto the base leg of the airport traffic pattern, then turned onto final approach, resulting in the airplane being high and fast. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing.

Density Altitude

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift. It also allows you to focus on flying during the last stages of the approach and landing. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

For most light aircraft, you should aim for a descent rate of 500 feet per minute on the final approach. You should use the rudder to do this. Stabilized Approach Ideally, the goal should be to achieve a stabilized condition with a constant rate of descent. Here’s a step-by-step guide to safely recover.

Descent

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways Start by setting up your approach correctly to ensure you arrive at the threshold perfectly every time. Perfect the approach phase by managing the aircraft’s energy and using references to improve positioning throughout the pattern. The easiest way to achieve this is by flying a stabilized approach.

Descent

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At one point, we were watching an RV on final approach when a green and white Citabria swooped into view from above the restaurant in a steep, descending turn and appeared to cut off the RV. Alton Bay's floating bandstand about 100 feet south of the runway threshold. He certainly had a point. Such a cool airplane!

Runway

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The primary flight controls on the DC-10 (ailerons, rudder, elevators, spoilers) were all operated by hydraulic pressure and the first officer was quick to realize that his controls were unresponsive to his inputs. During the final approach, Haynes noted a high sink rate alarm from the aircraft’s ground proximity warning syst em (GPWS).

Runway