AV Web

MAY 6, 2025

If the airport is your home drome, and there is a big oak tree or a Walmart on final you can measure the distance from there to the threshold on a sunny day. Then as you fly over your designated landmark and see the threshold, you will know that you have the measured distance. Approach lighting systems are a known, published length.

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Approach Runway Threshold True Airspeed 94

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

Throttle Mismanagement: A T-38 Lesson That Stuck Air Facts Journal An Air Force instructor teaches a powerful lesson on throttle finessein a jet that doesnt forgive overcorrections Have you ever been in a car or plane where the person driving or piloting is constantly adjusting the throttle? He replied, Ive got the jet.

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AGL Threshold Final Approach Crosswind 52

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“The New Frontier is our promise to deliver exceptional value with unbeatable flexibility.Unlike other airlines, Frontier makes premium benefits, like seat upgrades, truly attainable with lower thresholds for Elite Status. The airline expects to have eight first class seats per jet, with two rows, in a 2-2 configuration.

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Airlines Airline Threshold Jet 108

Flying Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

minutes, covered 1,722 nm at an average ground speed of 511 knots, and burned 22,200 pounds of jet-A. minutes, achieve stable approach at 1,552 feet, cross the threshold at 44 feet, touch down 1,542 feet down the runway, and disconnect the autobrakes at 91 knots. I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8

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Pilot Knot Gross Weight Runway 110

AV Web

JULY 4, 2024

The report noted that noise levels were measured for an average day; however, at certain times, noise levels significantly exceeded the daily average and often surpassed the 65-decibel threshold.

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Threshold Runway Jet 105

Aviation Bussiness News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Listen as this 777 increases power as it crosses the threshold. The post BIG JET TV: B777-300ER long-landing/go around during Storm Bert appeared first on Aviation Business News. Did that extra burst of power increase the speed too much, resulting in the long-landing, float and subsequent Go-Around?

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Threshold Jet 52

Aviation Bussiness News

APRIL 2, 2025

year-on-year, the highest growth in two years and world trade expanded by 5%, and jet fuel prices saw a 2.1% In February, the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for global manufacturing output was above the 50-benchmark 50 (51.5), indicating growth, while export orders rose slightly from January to 49.60, just shy of the growth threshold.

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Cargo Threshold Jet Airlines 45

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

I felt I was strapped into a runaway jet. I crossed the runway threshold at 70 mph and let a little more speed bleed off as I attempted to stay a few inches off the runway with the nosewheel slightly up. Adrenaline coursed through my veins, and every sense was tuned to the heartbeat of the small new airplane. I was 200 feet too high.

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Gross Weight Runway Crosswind Airplanes 65

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Using the VASI is crucial as it gives you safe obstruction clearance within 10 degrees of either side of the runway centerline and around four nautical miles from the runway threshold. nautical miles from the runway threshold. VASI provides a more extensive range of obstacle clearance at 4 nautical miles from the runway threshold.

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Runway Approach Threshold Clearance 98

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. So, what happened?

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Stability Approach Runway Pilot 89

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

A small Challenger 604 business jet flying at Flight Level 340 passed one thousand feet below an Airbus A380 flying the same route in the opposite direction. The vortices flipped the small jet upside down at least three to five times before the pilots managed to regain control. ATRs, Dash 8s, large business jets.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

While it may be common to find some very spartan instrumentation on an open cockpit biplane at the local fly-in, the level of complexity increases exponentially in turboprops and jet cockpits. Theres an expectation of advanced avionics installed on a high-end business jet, but Honeywells reach also extends to the turboprop market.

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

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 13, 2025

For example, while Americans existing 787-9s have 30 business class seats, these jets will have 51 business class seats. @xJonNYC reports that American is expected to get its first two new Dreamliners in April 2025, and they should enter service shortly after being delivered.

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Wide-Body Aircraft Threshold Airlines Airline 68

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Just before our appointed entry time, a privately owned performance jet somehow missed the approach to the 12,000-foot-long runway and then declared a low-fuel emergency. We were asked to hold our position a few more minutes before finally being cleared to begin our approach after the jet made a successful landing on the second attempt.

Runway 98

Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Aviation Bussiness News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Under the terms of the agreement, Satcom Direct will receive $375 million in cash and five million shares of Gogo stock at closing, and up to an additional $225 million in payments linked to meeting performance thresholds over the next four years.

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Threshold Jet 40

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area. Includes light twin-engine aircraft and some business jets. Commercial airliners, like smaller regional jets. Primarily for military aircraft.

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Knot Approach Distance Measuring Equipment Runway 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

And then when you get down near the threshold, you just hold it off and gently let the wheels down. 2B Fighter, a Bulldog Seems Logical Storo enjoyed a long career with FedEx, first flying Falcon jets, then Boeing 727s, and finally DC-10s before retiring in 2004. In this fighter, you don’t make square turns, so to speak.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Holding in Lieu of Procedure Turns Flying a ‘holding pattern’ is a great way to reverse your course and leave yourself pointing towards the runway threshold. Holding Speed Compare a fighter jet to a light aircraft. Yep, that’s a missed approach hold. When flying outbound, you start timing your leg from when the wings are level.

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Airplanes Crosswind Approach Knot 52

Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

To get a little better view approaching the threshold I leaned to my left and stretched up to maybe see a little more of the runway. Nearing the end of my tour in the ferry squadron, the airlines were expanding rapidly, converting to jet aircraft and hiring pilots to fly them. The view from the rear seat is mostly out the side window.

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Runway Airplanes Pilot Pilot in Command 52

Aerotime

JANUARY 3, 2025

While worth honorable mentions given their historic significance, as both sit just outside of our threshold of six miles (10km) outside of the city centers, neither falls within the scope of this article. Firstly, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) falls just within our distance threshold, located exactly 6.2

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Runway Threshold Airlines Airline 286

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Additionally, demand for air travel soared in the post-war years, going on to reach even higher levels once the jet age arrived in the late 1950s. Uniquely, the Aerotrain was to be propelled by a single Pratt & Whitney JT8D jet engine mounted on the roof of the vehicle, as used on Boeing 727s and 737s at the time.

Runway 273

Runway Jet Threshold Crosswind 273

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

READ MORE: What Does It Take to Transition from a Jet to a Piston Airplane? Often outflow boundaries or gust fronts produce low reflectivity returns that fall below the threshold used to filter out other clutter not associated with actual areas of precipitation. As mentioned previously, gust fronts are strictly low-level events.

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Wind Shear Weather Turbulence AGL 116

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

At a quick glance of a spreadsheet that the torches-and-pitchforks crowd put together, 16 airports have a fee for all operatorsthe rest only assess landing fees via Vector for commercial or jet operators. That said, slipping the weight threshold down would be an easy move for any airport administrationand merits monitoring.

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Pilot Transponder NOTAMs Threshold 56

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

But growing up amid the roar of propellers and jets had planted in me the seed of a lifelong love of all things aeronautical. We crossed the threshold just a few feet above the tarmac, and our intrepid pilot announced, “This is what I call the Tennessee waltz.”

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Tarmac 98

Ask Captain Lim

OCTOBER 15, 2023

If the captain anticipates that the estimated time of arrival would lead to fuel levels approaching this critical threshold, he should declare a PAN PAN distress call, which grants him priority and a more direct route for landing.

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Air Traffic Control Weather Threshold Airlines 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 26, 2024

In business jets and airliners, the issue is usually being too fast, leading to a runway excursion and often substantial damage or even fatalities. The left wing dropped and the airplane descended off the side of the runway, impacted terrain, and cartwheeled before coming to rest.” Too much speed is almost as bad as too little.

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Knot Runway Airplanes Pilot 98

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. Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. This definition has been in place since 2005.

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Runway Airlines Airline Horizontal Stabilizer 257

Cranky Flier

JANUARY 2, 2025

Paul A – Jet Blue & Spirits merger finally gets approved, but the 2 airlines will loose alot of money in the process. This isn’t an area I pay close attention to, but sure enough it does appear that United has jacked up its thresholds to qualify. Is Riyadh Air on Track?

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Airlines Airline Air Traffic Control Cockpit 130

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 7, 2025

Here’s how the executive order describes the reason for the rule change: “The United States stands at the threshold of a bold new chapter in aerospace innovation. The company has already achieved supersonic flight with a demonstrator aircraft , but obviously that’s not the same as building a jet big enough to accommodate dozens of passengers.

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Lift Threshold Jet Airlines 104