Fear of Landing

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As they descended towards Leeds, the crew calculated the landing performance with the wind at 060 at 19 knots. The approach controller gave them the current wind as 070 gusting 33 knots and let them know that a Boeing 737-800 had just landed. And sometimes its 35 knots across *and* thick fog. It’s not *always* like that.

Crosswind

Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Since it’s a ratio, it doesn’t matter if you measure speed in knots, miles per hour, or meters per second. At sea level on a standard day (15 °C or 59 °F), sound travels about 661 knots (approximately 761 mph or 1,225 km/h). Here, Mach 1 is roughly 573 knots (about 659 mph). on dry thrust alone.

True Airspeed

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

Although he was flying at or near the proper airspeeds for an overhead pattern, he was constantly moving the throttlesfrom near idle to near full thrust within seconds. During each turn, we lost about 1015 knots, but once wings-level again, the jet quickly accelerated back to 300. At least he didnt light the afterburners! Gusty winds?

AGL

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2025

However, excess propulsive thrust, over that needed to maintain level flight, can be utilized to either increase speed or climb to a higher altitude. Power Management Engine power is our altitude producer, so any thrust reduction during our climb should have a purpose, in light of its negative consequences.

Descent

Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

Other relevant numbers for the E1000 AX are its max cruise speed of 333 knots, max operating altitude of FL 340 and NBAA range of 1,560 nm. Taxiing requires forays into Beta as there is so much thrust at idle that the Epic will rapidly accelerate beyond taxi speed. Then, pitch up a long way—12.5 gph at normal cruise power.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Gear up,” I said, quickly followed by “select speed 180 knots, level change to 2,000 feet.” We could land at KLGA but the performance numbers for takeoff with anti-skid deferred—to bring the plane to a stop from V1, about 140 knots, would be significantly longer than any runway they had. Go-around , flaps 13,” I called.

Runway

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

The exhaust coming out of aircraft engines looks pretty dangerous, generating huge amounts of thrust and pushing back tons of hot air. This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots. What do you think happens to the air when an aircraft flies by?

Turbulence

Flying Magazine

JULY 14, 2025

The jet reached an airspeed of 180 knots when the fuel cutoff switches were “transitioned from ‘RUN’ to ‘CUTOFF’ position one after another with a time gap of [one second].” In addition, both fuel thrust levers were full forward, and the fuel control switches were found in the “RUN” position.

Cockpit

Cranky Flier

JUNE 26, 2025

It was twisting itself in knots, but it has always tried to make the same point… that the big US airlines partnering with smaller carriers is anticompetitive. Spirit has proudly taken the lead on challenging couplings in the past, most notably the NEA. It won the NEA fight, but it lost its own merger bid with JetBlue.

Thrust

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. Instead of a gentle breeze out of the west, we had over 20 knots of headwind blowing out of the south. Obviously, the winds aloft were nowhere near forecast.

VOR

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Increasing The Aircraft Speed Small, light, and low-powered aircraft such as the Cessna 172 have a relatively narrow operational speed range ranging from 40 knots up to about 160 knots. Commercial airliners fly at speeds above 300 knots but also need to be controllable at speeds below 150 knots. What Is Aileron Trim?

Aileron

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Horizontal wind speeds near the surface can be as fast as 45 knots, resulting in a 90-knot wind shear from headwind to tailwind across the microburst. Calm down and follow these steps: Apply maximum thrust immediately. When you recognize the early warning signs, take action quickly to avoid the possibility of a microburst.

Wind Shear

Fear of Landing

JUNE 27, 2025

The flight crew reduced thrust from 64% to 43% N1 after encountering wind gusts, but the descent rate increased dramatically in the final seconds. The Citation II was flying at 167 knots at the final approach fix, slowing to 117 knots before hitting the power lines at 500 feet above mean sea levels. seconds before touchdown.

Descent

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

This configuration provides the necessary power for both climb and cruise, while also offering valuable training for managing asymmetric thrust in the event of an engine-out situation. The operative engine will create asymmetric thrust, so adjusting the aircrafts heading and maintaining coordinated flight is essential.

Descent

Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2025

Thrust was increased or decreased by varying the pitch of the propeller. Baird noted that at nearly 450 knots the propeller governor would begin to surge, and the rotational force of it would begin to rotate the aircraft forcibly to the left. These two shafts drove a reduction gearbox mounted behind the propeller.

Jet

Jetwhine

JULY 14, 2025

An Air India Boeing 787 That’s because of a short piece of text on page 13 reads, “The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC, and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec.

Density Altitude

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

Almost eight times as much fuel is needed to propel an airplane at 400 knots as at 200. Boom aims to alleviate it (assuming the blanket supersonic ban will be rescinded or revised) by flying overland legs boomless at 700 knots and accelerating to 980 knots over oceans. We dont optimize for optics, Scholl said.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 9, 2025

Flying in 40-knot winds and heavy seas, the crew performed 19 touch-and-go landings over five and a half hours. The Hercules then backed itself up using reverse thrust, stunning the deck crew used to pushing aircraft by hand or with tractors. The aircraft is now displayed at the National Museum of Naval Aviation.

Flight Deck

Aerotime

DECEMBER 28, 2024

In maybe 50 seconds we went from about 400 knots and reached the advertised top speed of Mach 2.34, and the jet was still accelerating. With twin General Electric F110-GE-129 engines developing 29,500 pounds of thrust each in full afterburner, the airframe and powerplants are more than capable of Mach 2.5

Jet

Flying Magazine

JULY 7, 2025

READ MORE: Airlines and Pilots Don’t See Eye to Eye on Autonomous Flights Aerodynamic lift and vectored thrust come from two pairs of ducted propellers running on kerosene-powered engines, mounted outside the main hull. But with a top speed of 70 knots indicated airspeed (IAS), its velocity is more comparable to a shipping vessel.

Knot

Aerotime

JULY 12, 2025

After a normal takeoff roll and liftoff, the aircraft reached a maximum recorded airspeed of 180 knots. The AAIB report noted that the thrust levers remained in the forward position (takeoff thrust) until impact, despite the levers being found physically near idle afterward due to thermal damage.

UTC

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

In a cacophony of thrust reversers and maximum braking, the Falcon overran the end of the runway onto a gravel pad where the landing gear collapsed. The digital flight data recorder (DFDR) data indicated that the captain attempted takeoff at a rotation speed 23 knots slower than the calculated rotation speed Anything else?

Pilot

Fear of Landing

JULY 18, 2025

The aircraft accelerated along the runway and reached V1, the take-off decision speed, of 155 knots normally. In the air, the aircraft reached 180 knots indicated airspeed at 08:08:42, at which point the fuel cutoff switches transitioned from the RUN position to the CUTOFF position. At 08:07:33, the aircraft was cleared for take-off.

Weight-Shift-Control

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

TSB Approach sequence Due to reported wind gusts as the CRJ900 approached Toronto Pearson following a flight from MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) the aircraft was flown at 149 knots. The engine thrust was steady at approximately 43%N1, the TSB report explained. The bank angle increased to a 4.7right bank.

Indicated Airspeed

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2025

Horizon Aircraft More about the Cavorite X7 Capable of carrying out stage lengths of up to 500 miles (800km) while cruising at a speed of up to 250 knots (450 km/h), the Cavorite X7 can carry payloads up to 680kg (1500 lbs) if operating in vertical flight mode. Now we move fully onto developing our full-scale aircraft, so stay tuned!

Gross Weight

AV Web

AUGUST 19, 2024

The pilots told investigators the plane was going about 75 knots when Eagleman lunged. The sudden assymetrical thrust caused a yaw but the pilots were able to regain control and stop on the runway. Just as the plane touched down, Eagleman lunged toward the flight deck and pushed full throttle on one of the engines.

Flight Deck

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In gusty conditions, for example, crews tend to add a few knots to their touchdown speed, which allows for fluctuations in airspeed while on final approach. The same applies to the selecting of reverse pitch on turboprop aircraft, which translates the thrust produced by the rotating propellor forwards creating a slowing effect.

Cabin Crew

Thrust Flight

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Or 475 to 500 knots and 547 to 575 mph. appeared first on Thrust Flight. The average cruising speed for a long-haul commercial passenger aircraft ranges from approximately 880 to 926 km/h.

Airplanes

Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

The prototype lifted off, hovered and flew at a speed of 40 knots before landing. The pilot then increased acceleration with a target of seven knots ground speed. But as it passed through 2 to 4 knots, there was a loud POP. This caused a loss of thrust from motors 4 and 7. A propeller blade flew off of EPU3.

Descent

Thrust Flight

OCTOBER 9, 2024

And while NASCAR drivers do get to go fast (212 mph is the record, which is 184 knots or about Mach 0.28), Ricky Bobby would’ve done better to take up flying. To date, the fastest humans have been astronauts returning […] The post Top 16 World’s Fastest Aircraft and Spacecraft appeared first on Thrust Flight.

Thrust

Fear of Landing

APRIL 19, 2024

The helicopter turned left to return to the airport, travelling at about 85 knots. The indicated airspeed had fallen below 65 knots and was still decreasing. The helicopter was at treetop height with an indicated airspeed of zero knots when the right yaw ceased. The pilot reported two miles out.

Torque

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Air Force and NASA to explore using vectored thrust to transition from vertical and horizontal takeoffs to achieve level flight before making a vertical landing. It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. He compared its glide rate to that of a Cessna 206.

Thrust

One Mile at a Time

JULY 11, 2025

Switching the fuel control switch from “RUN” to “CUTOFF” immediately stops the fuel from flowing to the engine, causing the engine to immediately shut down, and lose thrust. Long story short, we know the crash happened because both of the engine fuel control switches were turned off just seconds after takeoff.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Even with 1,100 gallons of fuel the 18,000 pound thrust J79-GE-10 engine gave the Red Baron a thrust-to-weight ratio greater than 1:1, better than any fighter of the day including the F-15 Eagle. Well, I was indicating 210 knots when I ejected and on my way out I was counting the rivets on the canopy bow.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Then on those legs I flew, I would begin the brake application on landing roll, before the captain called out “80 knots” on the rollout to signal the transition into the low-speed regime, generally followed by “I’ve got the controls.” Firm is about as nice as I can describe our arrival, and “Take that, Daytona Beach!”

Rudder

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Down low, maximum speeds can easily exceed 425 knots. ” The 3,800-pound-thrust Ukrainian-built AI25-TL engine needs an air-assisted start provided by the onboard Sapphire APU. At 90 knots I ease the stick back and we’re through 140 knots with gear and flaps coming up before I know it. Morris was right.

Knot

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

You’ll learn to manage two engines, deal with asymmetric thrust, and respond to engine failures. Comparative Analysis Let’s break down how these multi-engine trainer aircraft compare in ways that matter most to student pilots: Performance Metrics Piper PA-44 Seminole : Cruise speed of around 162 knots, range of around 700 nautical miles.

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