Final Approach Stability Threshold 
Air Facts
MAY 14, 2025
At pattern altitude, I leveled off, and our airspeed stabilized at 300 KIAS. Add half the gust factor to final approach and touchdown speeds. I started the final turn and made the standard radio call: Talon 30, base, gear-check, touch-and-go. Rolling wings-level on final, the jet slowed to our approach speed of 160.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
The ice was simultaneously adding weight while destroying the shape of the wing and stabilizer air foils. At about one mile from the final approach fix, I put the Cessna into a high-speed dive towards the minimum descent altitude of 400 feet AGL. We were about 1/2 mile from the threshold. But then I heard my mental alarm.
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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. nm from the runway 28R displaced threshold, at 03:46 a.m.
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. They had moved to their strategic waiting position close to the landing runway threshold.
Plane and Pilot
AUGUST 2, 2025
The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer and rudder. The pilot reported being high and fast on final approach. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings, the fuselage, and the left horizontal stabilizer. The temperature was approximately 84 degrees Fahrenheit.
Aerotime
DECEMBER 27, 2024
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) differentiates an accident from an incident by imposing a threshold of aircraft damage set at $1 million. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other. This definition has been in place since 2005.
Flying Magazine
JULY 16, 2025
Still, you’ll likely cross the threshold well above the recommended landing speed and float for quite a while as you slow. Adobe Stock] Get Back to Basics As instrument pilots, the importance of the stabilized approach was hammered into our heads during training. On the subject of approach speed, the FAA speaks in double-talk.
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