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. Best of all, the technique works equally well for short and long runways, as the glidepath is always aiming for a point about 750 feet beyond the runway threshold.

Approach 100

Approach Runway Cockpit Aeronautical Decision-Making 100

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I assessed my personal condition and noted I was tired, but a short flight and get-home-it-is grabbed me (mistake #3). The Flight Plan I filed an IFR flight plan, KAZO-GIJ-OXI-MAPPS-EON-JOT-ILS2L-KDPA, then VFR to my homebase, 06C. As I crossed the runway threshold, it was solid IMC and I had to go missed.

Ceiling 90

Ceiling AGL Weather Threshold 90

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.

Pilot 98

Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

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. Flight Plan Auto Update – Alerts when ForeFlight receives and loads a new flight plan from the panel avionics. nm and +/- 1,200 ft.

AGL 52

AGL Runway Groundspeed Descent 52

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.

VOR 52

VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

For example, a traditional airspeed indicator shows only real-time changes, while a glass cockpits trend indicator calculates exactly where the airspeed will be over a fixed unit of time and can trigger alerts or automated corrections if thresholds are breached. Powerful baseline features incorporate 3 15.1-in

Cockpit 40

Cockpit Weight-Shift-Control Flight Deck Instrument Meteorological Conditions 40

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. They had moved to their strategic waiting position close to the landing runway threshold. Such it was in those days.

Weight-Shift-Control 52

Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52