Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

The most useless things in aviation are altitude above you, runway behind you, and fuel left on the ground." I cancelled the flight to my hometown due to a combination of strong winds aloft, surface winds forecast at 20-something knots gusting to 30-something knots, and potential for IFR conditions and icing to boot.

OAT

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 28, 2025

We departed his home field on the 5,000-foot runway. Off the runway, the VSI indicating a climb, Walt reached for the switch to raise the gear. We need to slow to 87 knots and we can push this lever here, he said, pointing to the release lever between the seats. Walt trimmed for 85 knots and we watched for a light.

Knot

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Lockwood Aviation’s maintenance hangar probably sees more Rotax-powered aircraft than many other shops in the country. The max stall speed is 45 knots and the max full-power cruising speed is 120 KCAS. Poke around the typical LSA maintenance hangar and you’ll see broken pieces. GPH on 92 knots.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JULY 18, 2025

When I visited the company’s Olathe, Kansas, engineering hangar to see a G5000 retrofit in progress, Garmin’s Dave Brown made a good point about these older turbine airframes needing a refresh. There’s also automatic low airspeed protection when below VMCA, plus 15 knots indicated. It’s a huge project. Fusion includes three 14.1-inch

Flight Deck

Latatuide 33 Aviation

MARCH 19, 2025

Consider which of the following sizes best meets your needs: Very Light Very light jets (VLJs) are ideal for short runways and trips. Midsize: The Cessna Citation XLS and XLS+ models provide optimal comfort and performance, and they can operate from shorter runways. They range about 1,000 miles and can seat four to six passengers.

Jet

Fear of Landing

JUNE 20, 2025

On Monday the 16th of June 2025, a twin-engine plane crashed onto the roof of a hangar. They were in the final phase of their flight, flying south on approach to runway 18 at New Century AirCenter. The data on ADS-B Exchange shows that the King Air had slowed to 140 knots for the approach as it crossed the freeway.

Knot

Photographic Logbook

JULY 5, 2025

My hangar neighbor Steve was on short final at SDC in his Bonanza. When I arrived, Northeast Philly Airport was not only extremely busy ("Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full") but everyone was landing with a gusty 20 knot crosswind. At the Runway Bar & Grill, Bradford, PA (KBFD) with the WFC on 10 May 2025.

Pilot

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Over the last three years, The Bear has expressed great interest in visiting Alton Bay, the only FAA-authorized ice runway in the continental United States. A very brief 2022 season for the ice runway eliminated opportunities to return that year. The Bear was furious that she missed out. The Bear and me flying to Alton Bay!

Runway

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

Centerline, centerline, centerline Air Facts Journal It was a beautiful May day as we grabbed the tow bar to pull the 1981 Cessna 182 out of the hangar. After one last check to my left to make sure there weren’t any yahoos on an unapproved short final (old habit), I took the runway then pressed the throttle in to full power.

Aileron

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

It shows the helicopter flying normally, aligned to the runway, and then begin a gentle climb. The helicopter turned left to return to the airport, travelling at about 85 knots. The pilot told the airport tower controller that he may need the runway. The indicated airspeed had fallen below 65 knots and was still decreasing.

Torque

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. On one trip home, we had a 50-knot headwind, really annoying at a true airspeed of only 125.

Knot

Fear of Landing

JULY 19, 2024

Bankstown Tower : MYW: join downwind runway 29R, maintain 1,500. MYW Bankstown Tower : MYW: just confirm a downwind to runway 29R, maintain 1,500. Pilot of VH-MYW : Um, downwind, MYW, runway 29R. All runways will be available. The pilot realised he was not going to make the runway. Bankstown Tower : MYW, roger.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Upon entering a 300-knot glide, the pilot of N156XD was cleared to land at NAS Oceana, but realized during the last phase of his approach that he would not make the runway. After declaring an emergency the pilot climbed to 35,000 feet, where its engine flamed out.

Pilot in Command

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We didn’t have a heated hangar, but our chief instructor pointed out that, if we did, melted water could collect in the control surfaces, waiting to refreeze once the plane left the hangar and put the control surfaces out of balance. On one trip home, we had a 50-knot headwind, really annoying at a true airspeed of only 125.

Knot

Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

Enter Tango Whiskey Aviation , an aerobatic flight school with operations at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester Area International Airport (KROC) and the Williamson-Sodus Airport (KSDC) where we share bays in the same hangar building. Eventually, we both became Williamson Flying Club members. Chop and drop!" Not bad, let's do it again."

Rudder

Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Almost as an afterthought, we told them that while we’d be busy building our hangar/apartment for the 2022-23 season, we’d come fly with them in December 2023. Crossing the Cook Strait on a typically raucous ferry ride following a 40-knot blow, we spent another eight days road tripping through the South Island.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. Airport manager Sam Jewell agreed to purchase the damaged plane and set about fully restoring it.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This 172 had a flap extension speed of 85 knots, and my old Cessna 172’s limit was 100 mph, or 87 knots. There was a nice crosswind, and I demonstrated landing on a concrete expansion joint, offset from the runway centerline. Then off to the other runway for a full stop.

Pitot Tube

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

In a T-6, I don’t care what you do, realistically, normal conditions, you might get 140 knots. That P-64 will cruise around all day at 180, 190 knots. As soon as the weather gets right,’ because during the winter months down there, that runway gets soft. It’s a rocket. It just doesn’t dry out.

Pilot

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

Parked in front of my first hangar in South Haven, 05 April 2004. When I first brought the airplane home to her new hangar at the South Haven Area Regional Airport (0D1/KLWA), I was immediately faced with a geometric challenge. Soiled hangar floor visible at the South Haven Airport, 25 September 2004. Out darn (oil) spot!

Airplanes

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Down low, maximum speeds can easily exceed 425 knots. The L–39’s Fowler flaps are clearly visible during the preflight inside Gauntlet Warbird’s hangar at Aurora Municipal Airport (left). Once it spins up the engine we begin taxi practice to the runway, something a bit akin to learning to steer my old taildragger.

Knot

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Birr Airfield has just one runway, a grass strip of 570 metres (1,870 feet) running north-south. Surface Wind South-west 7-12 knots (kt). The runway was firm, although he noticed that his shoes were wet after the inspection. He went to the hangar and did a pre-flight walkaround of the 172, including checking the fuel.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. I turned base early, slipped the RV-9A as hard as it would go, landed halfway down the runway, and stood on the brakes.

Weather

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Axtell performed a few additional race-centric modifications, including a stinger-style tailcone, but never attempted to compete with the aircraft and it was stored in a T-hangar at Jefferson County Airport (BJC) in Broomfield, Colorado.

Weight-Shift-Control

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 15, 2024

The Port Meadville Airport features an immaculately paved 5,000 foot long runway, sells fuel appropriate to kerosene guzzlers and air knockers alike, a genuinely nice terminal building with a great view of the ramp, and even maintains the infrastructure for a radio based localizer instrument approach. Left base, runway 25, Port Meadville.

Approach

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Even slowed by a 25 knot headwind, the airplane still saved time. I had already fueled and readied the Warrior for departure, it was just a matter of pulling her out of the hangar. September 24: Cloudscapes Date Aircraft Route of Flight Time (hrs) Total (hrs) 24 Sep 2023 N21481 SDC (Sodus, NY) - 5B2 (Saratoga Springs, NY) 1.9

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

So that’s what we did … They conveniently gave us runway 06, and off we were, carefully noting our fuel situation as a general repetition of things to come. We did a sloppy RNP-A approach to runway 31 at BIRK (Reykjavik city airport) and we taxied to the avgas pump. Westbound !! Towards Oshkosh !!!

Weather

AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Winds over 15 knots are indicated by flashing yellow lights. I chose the default setting of 15 knots because the max demonstrated crosswind component of our Cherokee Six is 17 knots. I chose the default setting of 15 knots because the max demonstrated crosswind component of our Cherokee Six is 17 knots.

Weather

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

I configured the airplane the same way as noted on the Piper Climb chart: 105 mph (91 knots), flaps 10 ° , full throttle. Time To Fly Our aircraft can cruise for about 4 ½ hours plus an hour of reserve fuel at 130 knots. After 50 minutes, we were taxiing to the runway. Our initial climb rate was 500-600 feet/minute.

Density Altitude

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As I passed Kelley's Island, wind streaks in the water out of the southwest indicated a wind of six to eight knots, exactly as forecast. Closer to South Bass Island, the Put-In-Bay Airport (runways 3-21) appeared along the southeastern shore. Moments before turning final for runway 21 at Put-In-Bay. This airport is a mere 1.4

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

Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

Photograph by Robert Frola (GFDL) via Wikimedia Commons Murwillumbah Airfield has a 19/01 grass strip which the report gives as 1,045 metres (3,428 feet), however, it is commonly listed as 800 metres as it has a displaced threshold of 245 metres on runway 19, because of industrial buildings and trees at the northern end.

Threshold

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

A friend reminds you of a couple additional nuggets of due diligence to be reckoned with—a hangar and insurance. Luckily, your friend just so happens to have a friend with some hangar space available at your home airport in Pueblo, Colorado. Next you look at NOTAM’s once again and notice that Runways 8R and 26L are closed.

Density Altitude

Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I also secured hangar space for the week to the tune of $75 a night. I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. We flew on top of a scattered turned broken layer having to descend through it to break out for the visual approach runway two-three into our fuel stop at Grand Strand KCRE. We were stuffed!

Runway

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

During my drive to the company hangar at the airport, I become increasingly convinced the captain will cancel our scheduled flight. Surface winds are already thirty knots gusting to forty-five. Forecast much stronger, up to one hundred knots.” “My calculations agree with the DME readout of seventy knots.”

Weather

Plane and Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

As I walked down toward the run-up area along Runway 14, I heard the faint sound of a turbine closing in. Upon closer inspection (and with the help of my prescription sunglasses) I looked up and saw a single-engine air tanker above midfield, joining the right downwind for Runway 14.

Air Traffic Control

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

Likewise, a 50-knot headwind can make the miles slow and days very long. The stimulating thing about having one take you to Fordyce is the 1400-foot runway. We were down and stopped in not much more than half the length of the runway. It’s amazing how well it works, too. The end of a perfect flight.

Weather