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Riding the Mountain Waves

Plane and Pilot

FAA weather charts can help for higher altitudes but when just a few thousand feet agl, they may be less useful. Airspeed was approaching VMO. Eighty-knot tailwinds aloft and higher-than-normal temperature difference between the surface and aloft. Maintain maneuvering airspeed at all times. That’s OK, Horizon 253.

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What’s wrong with the teardrop pattern entry

Air Facts

This is not an instrument procedure, but rather a way to enter the traffic pattern when approaching from the opposite side of the runway. Again, the AFH has some good advice: “if large or turbine aircraft operate at the airport, it is best to remain 2,000 feet AGL so as not to conflict with their traffic pattern.”

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Instrument Flying (IFR) FAQs – top questions this week

Flight Training Central

AIM 5-3-3 ) When an approach has been missed. ( AIM 5-3-3 ) Change in the average true airspeed (at cruising altitude) when it varies by 5 percent or 10 knots (whichever is greater) from that filed in the flight plan. ( Approaches, holding and tracking are all required for IFR currency. How do I stay IFR current?

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Unbolted in Fairfield (Update on the 2022 Bell 407 GXP Crash)

Fear of Landing

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.

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Long Trips & Small Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

Also, from when I lived out West, there was the mountaintop clearance guideline—1,000 feet for every 10 knots of wind, with 30 knots meaning no-go. But if I was going VFR over strange territory, I would want lots more than 1,000 feet agl. The 1,000-foot en route ceiling means that approach minimums never come into question.

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Mastering Short Field Landings (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Pilot Institute

In the Cessna 172S Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH), the landing distance decreases by 10% for every 9 knots of headwind. For the Cessna 172, landing distance increases by 10% for every 2 knots of tailwind. It only takes a 10% increase in approach speed to increase the landing roll by 20%.

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Flight Sims for the Win: It’s All About Repetition and Drill

Flying Magazine

VFR to MVFR…then 2 miles visibility and a ceiling of 1,200 feet agl. If the learner is not instrument rated but is training at an airport with an instrument approach, this might be a great time to teach them how to fly the approach as an emergency measure. It might be no greater than 6 knots with gusts to 10 mph.

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