Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Detecting them is difficult, which makes final approach and landing especially dangerous. At first, you might experience a strong headwind, which briefly increases your airspeed and gives you a false sense of stability. This can fool anyone easily, and could lead to disaster during approach.

Wind Shear

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

On final approach, it can be the difference between recovering and crashing. But in a power-off stall, you have to pitch down to allow the airspeed to increase and stabilize the aircraft. Finally, the process of cleaning up adds a lot of extra steps to the recovery of a power-off stall that doesn’t exist in a power-on stall.

Descent

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

With our diminished flight controllability and heavy ice load, we received vectors to swing out over Long Island Sound and turn carefully to approach straight in from the south on the north/south runway. It was quite a load of extra weight, but as important was the disrupted airflow over the control surfaces and wings.

Weight-Shift-Control

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

When you cross the IAF, you enter the initial approach phase. Some initial approaches lead directly to the final approach. Many approaches have fixes in between called Intermediate Fixes (IF). This view starts at the IAF and shows the same waypoints as the plan view down to the missed approach segment.

Approach

Flying Magazine

JUNE 20, 2025

It continued to slow and descend, and as it continued on the approach, crossing PENYY, the final approach fix, at an altitude of 2,450 ft msl and a ground speed of about 175 knots. As per procedure, the pilot switched frequencies to continue the approach. local time. nautical miles from the runway.

Knot

Aerotime

MARCH 3, 2025

But since 1971, the airline operated without a single fatality, until in 2000 a failure of part of the horizontal stabilizer on an MD-80 caused a crash that claimed 88 lives. American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on final approach to Reagan Airport.

Airline

iPad Pilot News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A pilot’s worst fearwas to look down at an EFB and see the infamous “blue screen of death” on an IFR flight while setting up for an approach. The scenario gets worse as you go to restart the device and see the message “Configuring Windows update 1 of 15…” as you near the final approach fix.

Pilot

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 10, 2025

A pilot’s worst fear was to look down at an EFB and see the infamous “blue screen of death” on an IFR flight while setting up for an approach. The scenario worsens as you attempt to restart the device and see the message “Configuring Windows update 1 of 15…” as you near the final approach to the fix.

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Pilots must be ready to initiate a go-around if the conditions deteriorate below safe limits during final approach. Go-arounds prevent forced landings under unsafe conditions; they’re a safety maneuver when success on final approach is not assured. Pilots must comply promptly to ensure the orderly flow of traffic.

Air Traffic Control

Northstar VFR

MARCH 23, 2025

As the plane descends toward the runway on final approach, it may encounter various scenarios where a safe landing cannot be assured. As soon as the pilot realizes this, they must abort the landing and climb back to traffic pattern altitude and attempt the approach and landing again.

Pilot

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The DHC-8, which had been tasked to transport supplies to Niigata in response to the Noto Peninsula earthquake occurring the previous day, had entered the runway at Haneda Airport as the JAL A350 was on final approach. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other.

Runway

AV Web

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Once youve got the airplane stabilized but are unable to resolve the partial power loss, its time to start getting this thing on the ground. But if you have enough altitude, you have the energy and flexibility to plan and execute a traffic pattern that puts you on final approach in a position from which to land.

Runway

Professional Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

In Nov 2024, a Spirit Airlines flight was hit by gunfire while on final approach to PAP (Port-au-Prince, Haiti). Major sections of the report cover crime, kidnapping threat, terrorism, political violence and civil unrest, political stability, protests and demonstrations, and law enforcement. These reports are thorough.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

Adobe Stock] Get Back to Basics As instrument pilots, the importance of the stabilized approach was hammered into our heads during training. Configure the aircraft (flaps, landing gear, and approach power setting) somewhere around the final approach fix and head down the three-degree glideslope to be at VREF on short final.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

Back in the early days of jet airliners, pilots long experienced in more forgiving two- and four-engine, piston-powered prop planes found themselves running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas on the final approach to landing. Several of these unstabilized approaches resulted in major aircraft damage or worse.

Stability

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Having been cruising along at around 500 miles per hour (800 kph) or so, depending on aircraft type, the crew will need to reduce this to around 150 mph (240 kph) for the final approach, and even lower for the actual landing itself. At this point, the use of the aircraft’s flaps becomes critical.

Cabin Crew

Flight Training Central

MAY 29, 2024

This week’s tip shows how to fly a stabilized final approach and help you visualize the steps necessary to transition from the roundout and flare to the touchdown. Landing an airplane is one of the most challenging, yet satisfying tasks you’ll learn to master on your path towards becoming a private pilot.

Airplanes

Ask Captain Lim

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The crew was not obligated to accept this runway and could have requested an alternative or allowed more time for a stabilized approach. However, during final approach, we were instructed to switch to Runway 22L, a shorter runway typically used for departures.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

For the final approach, I calculated V REF of about 128 was fought with much shear, with airspeed variances of up to 20 to 30 knots, providing a wild ride. Older jets without winglets or shorter wingspans are much faster in roll and lack some stability in bank. There was no inherent stability.

Crosswind

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

What speed on final approach? FAA parameters are no lower than 500’ AGL for stabilized criteria What specific runway lighting do we expect to see? What are the criteria for a Missed Approach Command? Is the Missed Approach altitude at or above the MDA? What are the possibilities of a GPWS activation?

Approach

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The final approach speed for a soft field approach and landing should be the same as is used for a short field technique to minimuze float once you enter ground effect. If gusty conditions are present, increase final approach airspeed by one half the gust factor.

Approach

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There was no real way of testing the stability of everything that high up. They anchored the Mooney to heavy rigging in the tower and were finally able to make it to the cockpit. From this point onwards, the Mooney systematically descended below every minimum altitude on the route: At waypoint TIMBE, the final approach fix at 5.2

Approach

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It also allows you to focus on flying during the last stages of the approach and landing. This allows you to configure appropriately and ensures a stabilized approach. An IFR pilot will run the GUMPS checklist before passing the final approach fix. Leading you to become too high and too fast on the approach.

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. For example, The Cessna 172 has an approach speed of 65 knots with full flaps. Stabilized Approach Ideally, the goal should be to achieve a stabilized condition with a constant rate of descent.

Descent

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

At approximately 30-40 feet agl, the spinning stopped and the helicopter appeared to stabilize for a brief moment before continuing a nose-low, forward descent into the grass north of Runway 28. When it stopped climbing, the helicopter maneuvered erratically drifting towards the north and descending. As it descended it spun around 2-3 times.

Torque

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

The easiest way to achieve this is by flying a stabilized approach. So, what is a stabilized approach? A stabilized approach requires the pilot to establish and maintain a constant angle glidepath towards an aiming point. Most approaches use a 3:1 glidepath. Use the PAPIs if they’re available.

Descent

Photographic Logbook

JULY 9, 2024

Instead, new concerns were raised about the structural stability of a building that could twist under certain wind loadings. The window panels were ultimately replaced with improved versions and the structural stability enhanced with the addition of diagonal steel bracing. It was a text message from Carl. How was it?"

Clearance

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

This was my flight's final assigned gate. I spotted another green stripes livery on this A330-900neo on final approach to this airport. These GE Leap-1A engines took a while longer than the older generation engine to stabilize and once they were good, we were on our way. It was nice visiting this airport.

Airline

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Upon his return, he reported that both right-hand and left-hand rear stabilizers had sustained damage. With the landing gear down but without the use of the wing leading-edge slats and trailing-edge flaps, there was little the crew could do to control the stricken aircraft’s approach speed, other than through variable engine power settings.

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

Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

A go-around is a maneuver performed to abort or reject a landing on the final approach or once the aircraft has already touched down. Top Reasons for Go-Arounds Unstabilized Approach An aircraft must have a stabilized approach before landing. In other words, it is an unstabilized approach.

Wind Shear

iPad Pilot News

APRIL 9, 2024

A pilot’s worst fear was to look down at an EFB and see the infamous “blue screen of death” on an IFR flight while setting up for an approach. The scenario gets worse as you go to restart the device and see the message “Configuring Windows update 1 of 15…” as you near the final approach fix.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The broad stabilator carries an electrically adjustable balance tab. Clearing the final approach path, we extended full flaps and stabilized at 70 knots. The ailerons feature a small flow-control trailing-edge flap to enhance roll control. The wide-open visibility makes pattern work a pleasure.

Knot