Plane and Pilot

APRIL 14, 2025

Just enough tail to do the job. He flies downwind leg at 150 mph, final approach at 130, and touchdown at 110the NXT stalls at 90 mph. Obviously, longer runways are required, and the skill level to handle this high-speed taildragger is quite high. However, the Nemesis story did not end here.

Airfoil

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The jet slammed into the ground six thousand feet short of the runway, taking the lives of 134 people. Detecting them is difficult, which makes final approach and landing especially dangerous. If you dont act immediately, you could be forced into an uncontrollable descent before you even reach the runway.

Wind Shear

Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

A witness reported that they saw the airplane lift off from the runway and remain in ground effect until it crossed the departure end of the runway. As it crossed the departure end of the runway, it was in a left bank and then struck a tree, then came down in shallow water off a public beach.

Density Altitude

One Mile at a Time

MAY 14, 2025

Turkish Airbus jet has tail strike during go around This incident happened on Sunday, May 11, 2025, and involves Turkish Airlines flight TK1771, which was operating the 926-mile flight from Istanbul (IST) to Prague (PRG). At 2:19PM local time, the jet touched down on runway 12 at Pragues Vclav Havel Airport.

Tail

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The remote control Exterior Camera There are 2 camera views The view from the tail. Window view photos (Take Off to Landing) (Sorry for the poor quality) At the gate before departure During take off On final approach to Tokyo Haneda On arrival in rainy Tokyo My flight summary Thanks for the ride, JA08XJ!

Airlines

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On January 2, 2024, a Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350-900 operating a flight from Sapporo to Tokyo collided with a Japan Coast Guard DHC-8-300 on the runway at Tokyo-Haneda Airport (HND). The Fokker 50 went off the runway and subsequently collided with a house. By this point, the DHC-8 was already alight from the initial impact.

Runway

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

It shows the helicopter flying normally, aligned to the runway, and then begin a gentle climb. The pilot told the airport tower controller that he may need the runway. The controller asked the pilot to report when two miles out and to expect runway 28. It rotated several times before crashing into the grass north of runway 28.

Torque

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.

Turbulence

Photographic Logbook

JULY 14, 2024

We overflew the airport at 1,000 feet above the pattern from north to south, then made an arcing, descending turn to the 45° entry for the downwind leg to runway 28. The runway is 108 feet above sea level. Final approach, runway 28, Block Island State Airport. Photo by Alicia. The man clearly has a way with words.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As we pushed back, the colors popped on the various tails parked down the row of gates, and we sat in line for takeoff with the low sun angle perfectly lighting a yellow Spirit Airbus against an ominous dark sky, save for the rainbow that arched high across the vista. Our numbers matched.

Runway

Air Facts

MARCH 26, 2025

But as I banked into my final approach, my heart sank. The main gear struck the runway with surprising force, causing me to balloon far above the runway. Bouncing violently, I thought I would go off the runway, but I managed to come to a halt right before the last turn-off. In many ways, I had been lucky.

Knot

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

When you come back to your airplane 30 – 60 minutes later, there’s a good chance you’ll find a fresh layer of frost on the wings and tail. In fact, ask any Alaskan bush pilot and they’ll probably tell you that landing on snow-covered runways is the norm rather than the exception in the winter.

Weather

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 20, 2025

With a single runway (17/35) in operation and smaller capacity airport compared to Milan (MXP) airport, there are airlines from other parts of Europe flies to this airport while for international airlines from other continents would fly to MXP airport instead. What do you think of different patterns spotted on the tail of the aircraft?

Weather

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 28, 2024

In addition, the airport has 2 runways, runway 10/28 and 16/34 and operates 2 terminals. The aircraft was on final approach to SKG. The tail livery is certainly very attractive. With a minute ahead of schedule, we pushed back and made our way to the departure runway. We touched down smoothly on runway 03R.

Descent

Chess In the Air

JULY 4, 2022

Sometimes the wind socks at both ends of the runway point in opposite directions! Rapidly approaching cold fronts (or other fronts, e.g. sea breeze fronts). In certain conditions blowing dust (a “ haboob “) can make an approaching front easily visible. Possible causes include: Rotor turbulence, e.g. on wave days.

Wind Shear

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Anyway, we landed at runway 20R and that means one thing, a good view of the traffic along the expressway as our aircraft taxied across the bridge (south cross) to get to Terminal 2. At this point, we were on final approach as landing gears were deployed and flaps were set. On final approach onto runway 20R.

Cabin Crew

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

The aircraft was flying with the help of the tail wind that's why the flight is shorter than the flight back to Taipei Songshan. Photo: EPS1) After 10 minutes of taxi, we were near the threshold of the runway. The approach and landing in Taipei was a smooth affair. On final approach We touched down 13 minutes late.

Weather

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

APRIL 15, 2024

Anyway, for our flight, we were flying with the tail wind reducing our flight time, therefore the flight time was shorter but due to the heavy traffic at Singapore, we had to circle around for a few times before being given the green light to land at the airport, so even with the delay, we arrived about 40 minutes ahead of schedule.

Runway

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Owing to noise sensitive areas all around College Park Airport, the fact that my approach was almost lined-up with the wind-favored runway (runway 15) and given the lack of traffic in the pattern, I chose to go straight in and flew final approach over the University of Maryland, College Park campus.

Transponder

Aerotime

JULY 26, 2024

The United States Air Force has published its final report on the accident involving an Air Force B-1B from the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota which occurred on January 4, 2024. The incident occurred while the crew was conducting a low-visibility approach through dense fog.

Wind Shear

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed.

Runway

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

When bay ice consistently thickens to over 12 inches, a team of dedicated volunteers collaborates with the New Hampshire Department of Transportation to open the Alton Bay Ice Runway. Over the years, its coveted status as the only FAA-authorized ice runway in the continental United States has endeared it to aviators seeking novelty.

Runway

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.

Approach

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

Cockpit

Jetwhine

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Using HD cameras, controllers can zoom in on any given point within the cameras range, say an aircraft on final approach. Another Remote Tower benefit is that each aircraft within visual range can be tagged with that aircrafts tail number, just as it might if the controller were looking at a radar screen. Cost, for one.

Air Traffic Control

Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

When the wind is blowing across the runway instead of along it, things get more challenging. However, the wind rarely aligns perfectly with the runway. We have two main challenges when performing crosswind landings: Staying aligned with the extended centerline on the approach. A runway excursion can quickly follow.

Crosswind

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 20, 2023

The sun was setting as I sped down Oakland County International's runway 27L and took to a sky suffused with a ruddy evening glow. By the time I crossed into Canada, the landscape ahead was cloaked in darkness with the western horizon at my tail dimly radiating twilight's residual warmth.

Runway

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 5, 2023

Jackson County's appealing attributes that morning included being halfway to our destination in Georgia, inexpensive self-serve fuel, good instrument approaches in case the weather was poor, and its overall appearance of being a hassle-free facility. We landed in calm air, rolled to the end of the runway, and parked at the fuel pump.

Weather

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

I was listening intently to the ASOS for wind or gusts, letting it repeat 5 or 6 times with the exact same report: 9 kts straight down the runway; no gusts. That was the runway we would use to land. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call.

Pilot

Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

When I got to the tail section, I reached for the elevator to inspect the trim tab actuators, but hesitated. With all preflight checklists complete, I brought the two Pratt and Whitney R-985’s radial engines to life in a cloud of smoke, and taxied for takeoff on Lambert Field’s Runway 12 Left.

Airplanes

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

The airport mayhave 2 runways (runway 14/32 and runway 09/27) but only one runway is in operation (09/27) and if this runway is in maintenance, the other runway will be in used. Once we reached runway 27, we departed just minutes after our schedule departure time.

Cabin Crew

Cranky Flier

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It was just before 9pm Eastern Time on January 29 when American Eagle 5342 — a CRJ-700 coming from Wichita, operated by American’s wholly-owned subsidiary PSA — was on final approach into Washington/National airport (DCA). The pilots accepted. At the same time, a Black Hawk helicopter was on a training mission.

Air Traffic Control