Ask a Flight Instructor

JANUARY 26, 2025

I typically arrive over the airfield/intended landing point 3,000 AGL then fly a 360 degree steep descent to a short final. I believe the civilian equivalent is the 360 degree power-off landing once required of commercial pilot candidates, and described in previous editions of the Airplane Flying Handbook.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Almost immediately upon arrival into Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC), I knew I was in airplane heaven from the immediate close-by 747s taxiing past the terminal windows to the noise of Beaver seaplanes whizzing overhead. The terrain reaches well over 4,000 feet agl, so a good vertical rise is seen.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

It can also be dangerous when the learner drops the airplane to fly the checklist or radio, so practice in the ATD is often a good way to learn procedures, as the ATD is a CFI-controlled environment. To get the most out of the scenario, the learner should use the same procedures in the airplane. It’s an ATD. What could go wrong?

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Crosswind Airplanes VOR Runway 105

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

A perfectly good airplane with everything operating as expected. At what AGL altitude will the aircraft be in a stable/configured condition? (No FAA parameters are no lower than 500’ AGL for stabilized criteria What specific runway lighting do we expect to see? No later than). What are the criteria for a Missed Approach Command?

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 18, 2024

You’ll typically see lots of airline traffic in Class B airspace, usually heaviest around pushes as an airline lands or departs many of its airplanes close together. It typically extends to 4,000′ AGL. indicated airspeed within four nautical miles of the primary airport, at or below 2,500′ AGL.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has rules to keep air travel safe, and one big part of that is making sure airplanes have the right transponders. Above 10,000 feet Mean Sea Level (MSL), excluding airspace below 2,500 feet Above Ground Level (AGL).

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

FAA weather charts can help for higher altitudes but when just a few thousand feet agl, they may be less useful. Anything in the airplane not tied down floated, even dust from the flight deck carpet, then slammed to the nearest surface moments later as we were caught by the next wave. Maintain maneuvering airspeed at all times.

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 4, 2024

The airplane will be flown at 1,000’ AGL parallel to and at an equal distance from the field boundaries – about ½ – ¾ miles from the boundary as you would fly a traffic pattern. As the airplane turns onto the following base leg, the tailwind will decrease and becomes a crosswind.

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Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

This necessitated slowing the airplane down to leave the vertical space to descend another 2,000’ to reach the initial approach fix (IAF) at 2,000′ I requested a descent to the IAF altitude of 2,000’ but was only cleared to 3,000’. ” As I broke out of the clouds on the final approach course, I flew about 1.5 RNAV 24 at KCPC.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

1: When operating an unmanned airplane, the remote pilot should consider that the load factor on the wings may be increased any time that the: A. airplane is subjected to maneuvers other than straight-and-level flight. Example question No. CG is shifted rearward to the aft CG limit. gross weight is reduced. Example question No.

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Pilot Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

This can happen to any airplane type. You should conduct training sessions at or above 1,500 feet AGL. Do you know what causes aerodynamic stalls and how to prevent them? Let’s break it down: An aerodynamic stall occurs when the wing exceeds its critical angle of attack.

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Lift Accelerated Stall Pilot AGL 98

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

But how to do so when you’ve known the airplane since its early development years, as I have? She warned me ahead of time that the airplane wouldn’t appear different from the outside but to expect something truly different inside. The logic is, if you can enter the airplane with the key fob, you can start the engine.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It typically begins at 1200 feet AGL but can start lower in some locations. The 1200-Foot Rule Usually, Class E airspace starts at 1200 feet Above Ground Level (AGL). The 700-Foot Exception In some cases, Class E can begin as low as 700 feet AGL to offer support for instrument approaches. This is the most common configuration.

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iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Both apps have all the features and capabilities to feel right at home in the cockpit of a student pilot learning to fly, while simultaneously meeting the needs of professional pilots flying turbine airplanes. It also activates the split-screen view and displays the emergency checklist for your airplane. in the app as well.

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Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A pilot needs to control the airplane in a manner that the wings support the weight of the airplane as long as practical to minimize stresses imposed on the landing gear by a rough surface or to prevent sinking into a soft surface. The approach for the soft-field landing is similar to the normal approach.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

The airplane was his 1964 Cessna 172 E, white with blue and yellow trim. For a non-instrument-rated pilot in an airplane not equipped for instrument flight, the blanket of white was unflyable. The airplane then entered a tight left turn and traveled to the north,” the NTSB reported. “The The passenger texted.

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Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

The GOM also called for the airspeed to be “on target” at such altitudes respectively. According to the GOM, either pilot could call for a go-around, yet neither did despite the published stabilized approach criteria being violated.

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

These would guide them when they couldn’t see anything outside their airplane. Theyre pretty much the same thing, but heres the difference: DH is measured above the ground (AGL). LPV is the most accurate RNAV approach and can get you as low as 200 feet above the ground (AGL), just like an ILS Category I approach.

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Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What are the minimum weather conditions required for airplanes operating under special VFR in Class D airspace? 3,823 feet MSL the surface 700 feet AGL Correct! Here are the five most often missed questions from September 2024 on the simulated Private Pilot Knowledge Test. terrestrial radiation on a clear, relatively still night.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 9, 2024

The higher speed creates extra lift, causing the airplane to bank further into the turn. The pilot’s job is to prevent the airplane from banking too quickly or too far. In our example, the right wing has more lift, and thus more drag, than the left wing as the airplane rolls. Let’s look at why this happens.

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Northstar VFR

AUGUST 11, 2024

There are phases of flight when it’s critical that you know how to handle the airplane at slower speeds. Departure and arrival are two of the most critical phases of a flight and involves flying the airplane slow while being very close to the ground. When an airplane exceeds its critical angle of attack, an aerodynamic stall happens.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

The airplane was his 1964 Cessna 172 E, white with blue and yellow trim. For a non-instrument-rated pilot in an airplane not equipped for instrument flight, the blanket of white was unflyable. The airplane then entered a tight left turn and traveled to the north,” the NTSB reported. “The The passenger texted.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

If the weather is not appropriate for instrument flight in light piston-engine airplanes, meaning the clouds contain ice, turbulence, or embedded thunderstorms, you’re probably better off using your VFR privileges, so long as you set strict limits. And your own currency may be long out of date, despite your qualifications.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

First, you need to know your airplane. Be familiar with what an idling engine and slow gliding speed sound and feel like, what the clean descent rate is, how much altitude is lost during a 180- or 360-degree turn, and what minimum agl altitude you’ll want to have when you arrive abeam of your landing spot.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

But, as you near the runway, the airplane starts to float. For example, a Cessna 172 with a 36-foot wingspan will begin to experience ground effect between 30 and 36 feet Above Ground Level (AGL). Whereas a Boeing 747 that has a wingspan of 211 feet, the ground effect can occur as high as 200 feet AGL. You’re landing.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

This is a hard one to gain insight from other than this: Some atmospheric events are bigger than our plastic airplanes. He only needed a glide ratio of 14:1 to reach the airfield to arrive at a typical pattern altitude of 1,000 ft AGL. At this point he still had an altitude of 8,275 ft MSL, i.e. 2,739 ft AGL.

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Northstar VFR

JULY 28, 2023

This is why when crossing flight level 180 (18,000 ft), all airplanes revert their altimeter settings to 29.92. It’s the altitude at which your airplane thinks it's at. Airplanes think? In instrument flying , you have to be careful as some numbers are represented in AGL (above ground level), or MSL (mean sea level).

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

We practice power-off stalls to help us identify the signs of a stall and the characteristics of your airplane when it stalls. The ACS states that recovery should be completed no lower than 1,500 ft AGL for single-engine aircraft and 3,000 ft AGL for multi-engine aircraft.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As briefed, we launched and headed to and entered one of our low-level training routes to fly tactical formation (below) at 500 feet AGL and 480 knots. When that pilot reported everything was OK, another pilot was directed to give his airplane the once-over. The boss waved me over to his car and told me to get in.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 4, 2023

But now, while flying in low visibility and overcast cloud layers, you have to rely on your instrumentation more than ever before and keep your eyes inside the airplane. Stay ahead of the airplane and be safe! As a student pilot you were always taught “see and avoid”, keep your eyes outside, etc.

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NAFI

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Hand-fly an approach to 200 AGL? In every situation where there's a statutory minimum, there is an operation, an airplane, and most importantly, a pilot where flying to minimums is a low risk. The regulations, it turns out, are pretty permissive. Fly with a CFI for exactly 1.0 every 24 months?

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2024

A power-on stall occurs when the airplane’s nose rises too high, and the angle of attack becomes too steep, disrupting the airflow over the wings. The FAA recommends that stalls should be practiced no lower than 1,500 ft AGL. This figure is for single-engine airplanes, it could be higher for multi-engine airplanes.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Fly at least 1,500 above ground level (AGL) to allow room for recovery in case you stall the aircraft. For a greater margin of safety, select an altitude that leaves you 1,500 feet AGL after recovery from a stall. So, if you’re inexperienced or out of practice, consider starting at 3,000 feet AGL.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 2, 2024

Even just passing through, the views are magnificent at 2,500 feet AGL running up the coast in the fall. We ended at the front desk where we paid our admission fee, walked out the back, got in the airplane, taxied out, and took off again. Onward to Bar Harbor. The Owls Head Transportation Museum.

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Flight Training Central

JANUARY 1, 2024

Personally, I have made two resolutions: 1) I am not going to eat any olives (I hate olives and haven’t eaten one since I was a kid and figured out I hate olives) and 2) not to kill myself (or anyone else) with an airplane. Failures are rare, but when flying a retractable gear airplane, we should practice manually extending the gear.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

To learn all the maneuvers you’ll need to perform on your practical test, check out Airplane Maneuvers Mastery for more. The Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH) for your airplane will list V A , typically for maximum gross weight. Maneuvering speed decreases as your airplane gets lighter.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

If you’re not stabilized at 200 feet AGL, go around. On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. Check out How to Perfect Your Airplane Landings. Your sink rate, attitude, power setting, and airspeed should be steady. V SO , plus any gust factor.

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