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Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights

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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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Danger lurks in circling approaches

Air Facts

What is the runway lighting? Only accurate within 10 degrees of runway heading). If you choose to fly a Circle-to Land approach to a runway without a VASI or PAPI, you are greatly increasing your vertical flight error path (possibility/probability). At what AGL altitude will the aircraft be in a stable/configured condition? (No

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The Ultimate Guide to Ground Reference Maneuvers

Pilot Institute

In the traffic pattern, youll need to ensure that you maintain a course in relation to the runway. In the traffic pattern, this is the runway. Youll want to perform any ground reference maneuver between 600 and 1000 feet Above Ground Level (AGL). Establishing Your Altitude and Airspeed Consistency is key.

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My Near Death Experience

Air Facts

At the current groundspeed, I believed it shouldn’t be of much concern unless the cell began producing lightning. I would then level off, slow down, dirty up, run a tight circle to land on the opposing runway. I immediately leveled off at around 650’ AGL, and began slowing down. The little voice agreed.

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