Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

Our NIFA team of pilots would travel to other colleges and compete in sanctioned competition involving precise navigation, pre-flight inspections, accuracy landings, and simulated bomb drops into a barrel from 100 AGL feet using bean bags as bombs. We were about 1/2 mile from the threshold. How can this be? His words were a shock!

VOR 52

VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Theyre pretty much the same thing, but heres the difference: DH is measured above the ground (AGL). The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach. 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.

Approach 52

Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes 52

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. x V SO (or POH recommendation) by around 500 feet AGL. The local altimeter setting is 29.65, the temperature is 25°C, and we have a 9-knot headwind. Establish the target approach speed by around 500 feet AGL.

Weight-Shift-Control 52

Weight-Shift-Control Runway Density Altitude Descent 52