Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

” The aircraft came to rest in a grass ditch about 100 feet from the left side of Runway 08 and 500 feet beyond the approach threshold. The weather at the time of the accident was reported as visual meteorological conditions (VMC). All major components of the airplane were accounted for at the accident site.

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Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Airplanes 122

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

Would the weather hold or not? The visibility had dropped to almost zero as we crossed the threshold. I examined the topped fuel tanks one more time and untied the ropes on the Cessna 152. I noticed that the wind was picking up. I looked toward the west, where the skies were darkening. I felt knots forming in my stomach.

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Airplanes Threshold Runway Knot 99

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 24, 2025

Special VFR is a clearance issued by Air Traffic Control (ATC) that allows pilots to operate in weather conditions below the standard VFR minimums. Special VFR (SVFR) is a clearance that is given to an aircraft by ATC that allows flights in controlled airspace under VFR when weather is below standard VFR minimums but above IFR thresholds.

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Clearance Pilot in Command Ceiling Weather 52

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

Take into consideration that weather reporting, and the dissemination of these reports to pilots, was not as accurate then as it is now. In just six months I would reflect on my training and agonize over how inadequately I had been prepared for the real world of instrument flying, which is weather.

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VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

Look at how lovely the weather was that morning. At this point, we reached the threshold of the runway. The view is certainly breathtaking especially in good weather. We arrived in good weather in Barcelona. Passing by Air France's corperate office. Air France Concorde on display. Making our turn into the active runway.

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Runway Weather Narrow-Body Aircraft Descent 59

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. The destination weather frequency callout provides the destination airport weather frequency (ATIS, AWOS, or ASOS). Sink Rate – Alerts as follows: When above 2,500 ft. per minute.

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AGL Runway Groundspeed Descent 52

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

Aerotime

OCTOBER 25, 2024

 However, all those students qualifying through CAE will encounter the same curriculum, level of standards, and threshold testing as students trained at NAV CANADA.  

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Cabin Crew Threshold 230

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. We had departed Windsor Locks Hartford airport for New Yorks JFK and our weather briefing had predicted a narrow layer of ice that we could out-climb and settle above it at 5,000 cruising altitude.

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Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Professional Pilot

MAY 7, 2025

A pproaching the threshold, the flying pilot was trying to keep the wings level in the gusty crosswind. Climate Scientist Downburst windshear can cause aircraft to deviate from the approach path. If not recognized quickly, it can lead to incorrect pilot inputs and loss of control. Both pilots recognized instantly what was happening.

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Crosswind Turbulence Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Bad Weather Sometimes the airport may not be busy, but conditions at the time aren’t suitable for an airplane to make a safe landing. Here’s what you need to know. There are three standard entry types: direct, teardrop, and parallel.

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Airplanes Crosswind Approach Knot 52

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Unfortunately, opportunities to get there can be few and often come down to the whimsy of weather. Weather conditions were different this time around, but the critical difference was that The Bear was flying right seat with me. I awoke that morning at 5:00 am and checked weather, squinting at ForeFlight on my phone in the dark.

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 95

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

Pilots can find out the prevailing winds aloft such as from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center and predict the vortices direction and rate of drift behind the preceding aircrafts flight path. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold. The vortex, as a whole, drifts along with the wind.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Approach Minimums When youre flying in bad weather and cant see much, you can rely on your trusty instruments to guide you. The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach. Thats why some approach plates dont allow LNAV/VNAV when the weather is too extreme.

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Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. Still the better part of an hour away from home, weather conditions were concerning.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

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. One of the best examples thats currently in service is the Gulfstream G280.

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

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Weather It’s a good idea to brief any weather that could make your landing more challenging. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. Approach Speed When crossing the threshold, you must ensure you fly the correct approach speed. So, what should you include?

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Airplanes Descent Approach Crosswind 52

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.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

The Captain made his announcement and gave us update on the weather on route and for the announcments by the cabin crew, it was done in 5 languages including the Taiwanese dialect. Take off was slightly turbulent but eventually the weather improved after flying out of Japan. At the threshold, we were cleared to depart.

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Weather Cabin Crew Threshold Turbulence 59

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The ILS approach has revolutionized aviation and the types of weather we can fly in. 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. This is most likely thanks to the ILS. What is an ILS?

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Knot Approach Distance Measuring Equipment Runway 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

My ride: JA804X Shout out to all the ground staff especially those working on the aircraft in cold and hot weather. The weather was splendid in both airports and I can't ask for more. Turning left, heading towards the threshold. Here I am, on board my 119th airline, Solaseed Air! Pushing back in progress.

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Cabin Crew Weather Airlines Airline 59

Universal Weather

APRIL 10, 2023

An operator that feels they will exceed that threshold would need to apply to both the DOT 375 authorization and the FAA Part 129 Operations Specifications. Exceeding the 12-flight cap under the DOT 375 Special Authorization This authorization only allows up to 12 flights to the U.S.

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Threshold 52

One Mile at a Time

JULY 12, 2024

That’s especially true when you consider the spending threshold bonuses. Among these features is: Trip Cancellation & Trip Interruption Insurance — be reimbursed up to $5,000 per trip when your trip is canceled or cut short due to sickness, severe weather, etc. However, in reality, not all of those points come from the credit card.

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Threshold Weather Airline Airlines 97

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

If you’re at a field with no weather reporting, gauge the wind speed and direction using the windsock. On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power. It will allow you to fine-tune your approach.

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NOTAMs Runway Approach Descent 52

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The speeds are based on aircraft weight and performance (affected by runway and weather). Landing Bugs Bug 1 and 2: V Ref – Landing Reference/Threshold Crossing speed (bugs are positioned together). Adjusting the Command Bug with the IAS/MACH selector knob What do the bugs represent?

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Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed Knot Altimeter 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Some nice Indian music was being played before take off and landing, I thought that was nice, it somehow helps to calm one nerves especially when flying through turbulent weather. Here we are, we have reached the threshold. It took a while before the seatbelt sign was turned off and the crew started preparing for in-flight service.

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Weather Runway Cabin Crew Descent 59

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Weather, field conditions, obstacles, and many other elements greatly affect short field operations. If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. The aiming point at an actual short field should be as close to the threshold as is safe. Choose an aiming point.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Density Altitude Approach 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

Once we were on our way, we flew through a bit of turbulence but once the weather was better, the seat belt sign was turned off. Finally we reached the threshold and we were on our way. The weather wasn't good but at least it wasn't bumpy. At this point, the bad weather left us and we were greeted with good weather.

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Airlines Airline Weather Turbulence 52

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Reaching the $5,000 threshold has nothing to do with the calendar or cardmember year — the counter simply resets every time you spend $5,000, and then you start earning toward your next two elite nights. This means that in theory, you could spend your way all the way to Explorist or Globalist status, if you wanted to.

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Threshold Approach Airline Airlines 87

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

My plan: if the weather was as crummy as forecast, I would just go to work. If the weather was somehow better than forecast, I would fly in the morning and attend to my work in the afternoon. With eyes closed and still on the threshold of sleep, I considered how either good or dismal weather conditions might exist outside.

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Weather Annual Inspection Threshold Airplanes 86

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

Answer: When looking at the surface analysis chart issued every three hours by meteorologists at the Weather Prediction Center (WPC), you may have seen a tan dashed line with a label “OUTFLOW BNDRY” nearby. Crescent-shaped convective outflow boundary as detected on NEXRAD Doppler weather radar.

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Wind Shear Weather Turbulence AGL 116

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.

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Threshold Runway Approach Pilot 92

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

But getting there from Rochester, NY is never a simple task and not only requires the runway to be open with favorable conditions, but the weather between here and there must be amenable to a six hour round trip there and back again. Rolling out on final approach, I was surprised to see another airplane stopped right at the runway threshold.

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Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 75

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I checked the weather by phone and was assured it would be great CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) with 2-3-knot winds from 090 degrees. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. I checked the airplane’s logbook and saw it had not flown for several days.

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Runway Threshold Approach AGL 72

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. After a harrowing series of attempts, the aircraft finally touched down at Batam Airport.

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Air Traffic Control Weather Threshold Airlines 52

Fear of Landing

MAY 16, 2025

Although it is referred to as the decision speed, V 1 represents a crucial threshold: any choice to reject the take off must be made before reaching V 1 , so that the stopping is already in progress when it reaches V 1. The weather at Gatwick was good that morning: dry with temperatures of 18C (64F) and a headwind of 11 knots.

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Thrust V Speed Knot Runway 100

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 3, 2024

Distance, weather, and varying piloting abilities, risk tolerances, and personalities add challenges to planning and carrying out these types of trips. While the reality of the weather validated this decision, it was the beginning of what became a frustrating streak of weather related club event cancellations that persisted well into June.

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Airplanes Runway Weather Approach 93