Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold. That makes it harder for the aircraft to fit into hangars and airport gates. As at higher altitudes, the vortex movement near the ground is affected by crosswinds.

Turbulence

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

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. We had a deal.

Runway

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. The windsock promised that getting the little yellow bird into the air would be a white-knuckle affair.

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

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

With as much as 25 knots of tailwind, we made the flight from Sodus to Alton Bay in only two hours. Rolling out on final approach, I was surprised to see another airplane stopped right at the runway threshold. Should that guy be so close to the threshold?" Lake Winnisquam with Lake Winnipesaukee in the distance. Joe asked.

Runway