AV Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

At a press briefing on Saturday, NTSB member Todd Inman said the flight data recorder and ADS-B data put the regional jet at 325 feet AGL at the point of impact, plus or minus 25 feet while the controller’s console showed the helicopter at 200 feet, the ceiling of the flight corridor it was flying at the time.

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Pilot in Command AGL Flight Deck Ceiling 133

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

This is useful in helping drone pilots yield the right of way to manned aircraft whenever necessary. AGL Above Ground Level AGL is simply a way to tell the basis from which any given height or altitude is measured. AGL is important for drone pilots as the regular ceiling for drone flight is defined as 400 feet AGL.

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Pilot Weather Air Traffic Control NOTAMs 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

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. As the pilot in command, it is your job to minimize the loss of altitude and recovery as soon as practicable.

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Descent Approach AGL Lift 52

Ask Captain Lim

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This question from Quora explores whether the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342 could have taken different actions to avoid the tragic collision. The pilot-in-command has ultimate authority over the aircraft’s safety and can refuse a runway change if it compromises safety.

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Pilot Runway Air Traffic Control Pilot in Command 59

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

1: According to 14 CFR Part 107, the remote pilot in command (PIC) of a small unmanned aircraft planning to operate within Class C airspace: A. 1: To avoid a possible collision with a manned airplane, you estimate that your small UA climbed to an altitude greater than 600 feet agl. remote pilot in command B.

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Weight-Shift-Control Air Traffic Control Aeronautical Decision-Making Density Altitude 114

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

According to the GOM, either pilot could call for a go-around, yet neither did despite the published stabilized approach criteria being violated. The second in command (SIC) suggested S-turns to lose altitude and speed, but the pilot in command (PIC) responded, “Nah, we got it.”

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

An instrument rated pilot, who has not logged any instrument time in 1 year or more, cannot serve as pilot in command under IFR, unless the pilot passes an instrument proficiency check followed by 6 hours and six instrument approaches, 3 of those hours in the category of aircraft involved.

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Instrument Flight Rules Ceiling Descent Approach 52