AGL Descent Weather 
Flight Training Central
JANUARY 10, 2025
Descent planning is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of managing your flight. And if not planned properly, a poorly executed descent can present challenges and unnecessary risks when transitioning to an approach or the traffic pattern. Finally, you can enable messages to alert you as to when to begin the descent.
iPad Pilot News
MARCH 11, 2025
These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. IN-FLIGHT ALERTS 500 AGL Alerts – Alerts when descending through 500 ft. AGL after having been above 1,000 ft. AGL (or when AGL is unknown), the descent rate exceeds 4,000 ft.
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Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
it seems to be getting gradually darker like it would at home for us in summer, but then the sunset just gets hung up somewhere at a lower angle than midday but doesn’t continue its descent. The terrain reaches well over 4,000 feet agl, so a good vertical rise is seen. In fact, my observation was that around 8 p.m.
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. Theyre pretty much the same thing, but heres the difference: DH is measured above the ground (AGL). Instead of a Decision Height (DH), youll use something called a Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA).
Air Facts
MAY 10, 2024
ICAO minima for circling approaches is much higher than that stipulated in the FARs so consider higher weather minima. We also benefit from the latest weather updates. Perhaps just prior to the start of descent could be the optimum time–certainly completed no later than commencement of approach. What is the runway lighting?
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. Great Falls weather is fair and warm. Flight idle and nose down, which normally produced a 2,000-3,000-feet descent rate, resulted in a 2,000-feet-per-minute climb. Maintain maneuvering airspeed at all times.
Plane and Pilot
AUGUST 6, 2024
Maybe it’s the Georgia flying weather, or maybe it’s the ever-increasing emphasis on “old” pilot instead of “bold” pilot, but it seems that flight planning these days is a lot more about if and when than about route and altitude. But if I was going VFR over strange territory, I would want lots more than 1,000 feet agl.
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