Flight Training Central

MARCH 31, 2025

Youve probably seen runway approach lights at larger airports many times during your training and when flying at night. If an approach lighting system is available for a runway, the symbology will be displayed in both the small airport diagram in line with the runway, and in the briefing strip towards the top of the instrument approach chart.

Approach

One Mile at a Time

MARCH 20, 2025

At the time of the accident, winds were at an angle of 270 degrees (the runway was at an angle of 230 degrees), at 28 knots, gusting to 35 knots. The initial impact was 420 feet past the runway 23 threshold. The TSB also emphasizes that accidents rarely stem from a single cause.

Descent

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

The 152 rocked and bounced in the air currents as we approached the runway. The visibility had dropped to almost zero as we crossed the threshold. The airplane was pushed up and down in tight, quick movements as we came in over the pavement, and then the tires squealed as we hit the runway hard. Dont use flaps. yelled Bill.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

After one aircraft lands, the tailwind pushes the vortices forward into the runways touchdown zone. This lateral movement of vortices is important to know for pilots flying into airports with parallel runways. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold.

Turbulence

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

EDT, Holland was cleared to land on Runway 08 at Langley. According to witness statements given to the NTSB, “the airplane made a normal approach to the runway, and when it was over the end of the runway, it leveled off about 50 [feet] above the runway and flew straight down the runway for several hundred feet.

Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC)

Flying Magazine

JUNE 3, 2025

Most of the time, jets fly long, straight-in instrument approaches, so pilots dont get much practice approaching a runway from other directions. That works well for short runways, say 3,000 feet or less. But using Pathways simplifies the problem and works regardless of runway length or where you join the final. Heres the tip.

Approach

Flying Magazine

JUNE 10, 2025

I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8 minutes and achieved stable approach to Runway 19R at 1,710 feet. I disconnected the autobrakes at 102 knots, turned off the runway with 4,400 feet remaining, and had a maximum speed of 16 knots on taxi in. I hand-flew the first 13.3

Pilot

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I held at 800, assuming Id see the runway lights below me and then I could continue to 06C. As I crossed the runway threshold, it was solid IMC and I had to go missed. I intended to get down to the glideslope, but my fatigue got in the way, and I was still socked in at 400 as I crossed the RW 2L threshold.

Ceiling

Flying Magazine

JULY 3, 2025

Page Airfield is an uncontrolled airport at 4,300 feet elevation, and the runway is just under 6,000 feet long. Seeing my position visually, I was now totally confident I could make the runway. miles from the end of the runway, I called for gear. I told them yes, but that we had no engines and needed a tow off the runway.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

I lined up on Runway 27. The longest runway at Palm Beach County Park Airport (KLNA) is 3,500 feet, plus fields and open spaces would be ahead of me. At 500 feet down the runway, the little airplane leaped into the air despite my plan to build more speed before taking off. First flight! I took a deep breath. Airplane ready.

Runway

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Catalina Island does not have night operations and the table-top runway is unlit. The Baron crashed shortly after takeoff from runway 22, descending rapidly from just 75 feet above ground level. ” Catalina Airport is a table-top runway at 1,601 feet above mean sea level. miles (965 metres) west of the end of the runway.

Runway

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

A few minutes later, we heard the center controller clear a Trans Missouri Airlines commuter plane for the VOR Runway 30 approach to Jefferson City. In eight minutes, we would be a pile of bent aluminum in some field short of the runway. I was familiar with this company and knew they flew Cessna 206s and the twin engine Cessna 402.

VOR

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 17, 2025

Runway end threshold coordinates are now displayed in the Runway Details view (Airports > Runways) or airport popups on the Map, with a tap-to-copy option. Additional Features The update includes several other enhancements.

AGL

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

He then returned to Vance to conduct landings from the T-38 overhead pattern on our westernmost runway (17R); thats when the wheels came off. Approximately half way down the runway, you execute a level, 60-degree bank, 180 o turn while reducing power and lowering the speed-brakes to arrive on the inside downwind.

Pilot

Air Facts

MAY 14, 2025

The final turn in the T-38 is a nose-low, 180-degree turn designed to arrive on final one mile from the threshold at 500 feet AGL. The threshold slid past my right shoulder as I began my flare. We touched down on speed about 100150 feet down the runway. The turn requires 3045 degrees of bank and holds our speed around 180.

AGL

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

A no-flaps landing generally requires more runway for stopping, with the distance that can increase by as much as 50% depending on the aircraft and conditions. So, you should practice maintaining the correct sight picture by aligning the runway threshold with a fixed reference point on the windscreen. Pre-Landing Checklist 1.

Pilot

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. RUNWAY ALERTS Runways – Alerts when nearing or entering a runway. An audible alert plays the message Traffic on Runway and specifies the runway number and airport.

AGL

Flying Magazine

MAY 26, 2025

One of the first things youll notice about TDWRs is that they are located off the airport about 7 miles from the center of its runway complex. Instead, the TDWR is located in a place that has good visibility to the approach and departure corridors and the runway environment.

Weather

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The snow plow operators were happy to be able to go about their clearing operations without having to hold short or vacate runways to wait for arrivals or departures. It was clear that he was not able to maneuver to circle to the longest runway so a straight in on the east/west runway was his only option.

Weight-Shift-Control

Professional Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

A pproaching the threshold, the flying pilot was trying to keep the wings level in the gusty crosswind. Like mountains, even smaller obstacles may produce LLWS when strong winds pass them before reaching the runway. Most reports will indicate the type of aircraft, runway, altitude, and the amount of airspeed change.

Crosswind

Cranky Flier

MAY 23, 2025

The order went into effect immediately, and it restricts operations to 56 per hour while construction on runway 4L/22R is ongoing. The FAA released an interim order dramatically reducing the amount of aircraft movements at the airport for the foreseeable future.

Threshold

Pilot Institute

JULY 4, 2025

Conversely, situations like approaches in closely spaced parallel runways can have too many nuisance alerts. This might include different alerting thresholds since helicopters can turn or stop faster but also often fly low, where TCAS-II might be inhibited. If the other aircraft’s transponder is off or disabled, TCAS can’t see it.

Transponder

Flying Magazine

JUNE 20, 2025

.” The controller informed the pilot that he was 5 miles from NESTY and instructed them to cross NESTY at or above 3,800 ft MSL and cleared the pilot for the RNAV approach to runway 28R at KMYF. nm from the runway 28R displaced threshold, at 03:46 a.m. nautical miles from the runway.

Knot

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Runway Changes (or Closure) Where possible, airplanes normally like to land in the wind. If the wind changes significantly, the airport authority may decide to change the runway. Yep, those runway numbers do mean something.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Lateral guidance tells you to go left or right to align yourself with the runway. Heres how you decide: If you can see the runway (or certain lights or markers for the runway) when you reach the DH, you can keep going and land. The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach.

Approach

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. The Apex is offered on the Pilatus PC-12 NG.

Cockpit

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

The airport layout of CDG airport This airport consists of 4 runways, (08L/26R, 08R/26L, 09L/27R and 09R/27L) and was opened in March 1974. However after pushing back while on the way to the runway, I managed to see some deicing action on an Easyjet A321 aircraft. At this point, we reached the threshold of the runway.

Runway

AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Over, Beyond the Runway Over 21 percent of pattern stalls occurred over the runway during the landing flare. The private pilot was fatally injured. So, where do most pattern stalls occur?

Final Approach

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 17, 2025

This airport is a hub for Iberia, Level, Air Nostrum and Vueling and operates 3 runways, 06L/24R, 06R/24L and 02/20. Currently the airport has 2 runways 17L/35R and 17R/35L and operates 2 terminals. We waited for a while near the threshold to allow a few aircraft ahead of us to take off. We entered the runway.

Airline

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Those are the ignition lane switches and wing spar pin warning light If that isn’t incentive to take training seriously, look to the NTSB reports where you’ll find lots of runway prangs in the hands of hamfisted pilots. Poke around the typical LSA maintenance hangar and you’ll see broken pieces. The RV-12 is no different.

Gross Weight

Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

A witness reported that they saw the airplane lift off from the runway and remain in ground effect until it crossed the departure end of the runway. As it crossed the departure end of the runway, it was in a left bank and then struck a tree, then came down in shallow water off a public beach.

Density Altitude

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. The Fokker 50 went off the runway and subsequently collided with a house. This definition has been in place since 2005. The aircraft was severely damaged and has not been repaired.

Runway

One Mile at a Time

JULY 22, 2025

Obviously it’s normal for the same runway to be used for takeoffs and landings, but not at exactly the same time. Runway 5R is really long — it’s 12,800 feet (3,900 meters), due largely to Mexico City’s high altitude. After all, on a runway, there’s only one direction to go. Was it a brain fart?

Runway

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Student pilots get a free pass, because theyre adorable skittering off runways in Loss of Directional Control (LODC) events that vex the best among us. During the second landing attempt, NTSB notes, the airplane touched down and bouncedmultiple times as it continued down the runway and subsequently nosed over. Sorta the Wrong Runway?

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

Still, you’ll likely cross the threshold well above the recommended landing speed and float for quite a while as you slow. It’s a long runway, so even with the wheels kissing the pavement with half the pavement behind, the airplane is slowed, and you vacate the runway. All’s well that ends well—this time.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

That said, slipping the weight threshold down would be an easy move for any airport administrationand merits monitoring. A photo snapped of your airplane turning off the runway would have you caught red-handed. Many airports dont assess landing fees for anything less than 6,000 pounds. It includes cameras.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

Tune Airport (KJWN) tower and was cleared to land on Runway 20. The Lance’s track was aligned with the runway, but rather than begin a descent it remained at 2,000 agl. A mile from the threshold the pilot asked to overfly the runway and go around. Subscribe Now The pilot checked in with John C.

Approach