Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

It is not uncommon for air traffic control to pose this question to pilots on IFR flight plans approaching certain airports when the weather is VFR. Courtesy: Jeppesen] Visual into KTEB One of the first guided visual approaches was created for the descent to Runway 1 at Teterboro Airport ( KTEB ) in New Jersey.

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Approach Air Traffic Control Runway Flight Deck 92

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

Air traffic control tapes reveal the enroute controller called out the heading and altitude deviations and instructed the pilot to correct course, and, twice, to descend to 9,000 feet, which the pilot acknowledged both times with “descending to 9,000.” This all unraveled quickly.

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Tail Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Groundspeed 105

Fear of Landing

JUNE 21, 2024

The flight seemed routine until the flight crew started the final descent from 34,000 feet. A meteorologist from Austrocontrol, who supply air traffic control in Austrian airspace, has claimed that the thunderstorm cell was visible and pilots had been warned of the dangerous weather conditions.

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Airlines Airline Cockpit Weather 84

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

Air Traffic Control tapes reveal the enroute controller called out the heading and altitude deviations and instructed the pilot to correct course, and, twice, to descend to 9,000 feet, which the pilot acknowledged both times with “descending to 9,000.” This all unraveled quickly.

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Tail Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Groundspeed 98

Fear of Landing

MAY 24, 2024

The pilots enter a four-digit code into the transponder, which might be assigned by air traffic control to identify that particular aircraft or might be a general code showing what type of flight it is. In fact, the descent to 31,000 feet was flown by the flight crew as the start of the planned emergency descent to Bangkok.

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Turbulence UTC Airlines Airline 77

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

The fiancé told air traffic control that his formation partner had a partial loss of engine power, was trailing smoke, declared an emergency for the accident airplane, and told ATC that the Extra was “making a beeline for the airport right now.” Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway.

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Knot Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 87

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

The fiancé told air traffic control that his formation partner had a partial loss of engine power, was trailing smoke, declared an emergency for the accident airplane, and told ATC that the Extra was “making a beeline for the airport right now.” Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway.

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Knot Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Basics of Radio Communications With Air Traffic Control The guiding principle of ATC communications is understanding. Make those practice calls even more realistic by utilizing live air traffic controllers who can help simulate real interactions. ASA Airplane Flying Handbook can be a great resource.

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Aeronautical Information Manual Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 64

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Air traffic control instructions often lead to unstable approaches. It is based on the pilot’s judgment of certain visual clues, and depends on the maintenance of a constant final descent airspeed and configuration. A controller who withholds or issues a late descent clearance is also to blame.

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Approach Descent Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 105

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Basics of Radio Communications With Air Traffic Control The guiding principle of ATC communications is understanding. Make those practice calls even more realistic by utilizing live air traffic controllers who can help simulate real interactions. ASA Airplane Flying Handbook can be a great resource.

Aeronautical Information Manual 52

Aeronautical Information Manual Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 52

NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

Can be initiated by either the pilots or air traffic control. A weather report predominantly used by pilots, air traffic controllers and meteorologists, to assist in weather planning and operational decisions for a particular airport. It warns pilots of a too high or too low descent path.

Runway 52

Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 1, 2024

You can also add additional privileges or transition to the Private Pilot certificate when you’re ready–you’ll just do some additional training with an instructor on cross country, night flying and/or in airspace requiring communication with Air Traffic Control. and a normal landing.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Airplanes Air Traffic Control 98

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Descent planning can be complicated and needs to be done more than 100 miles from the destination. Turbine airplanes operate at complex airports with heavy traffic, they fly multi-segmented departure and arrival procedures that include altitude and airspeed restrictions.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control 52

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 13, 2023

I wondered if the NetJets pilot had annoyed the Atlanta Center controller. I also wondered if Atlanta Center had slam dunked Execjet 123 with a steep descent from VIVIC like they did to me the day before and if that was the cause of the missed approach in the first place. Remarkably flat cumulus bottoms on the descent into Sodus.

Approach 52

Approach Ceiling Runway Clearance 52

Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

Witness the implementation/maturing of SWIM (System Wide Information Management), active enroute domestic CPDLC, and increasingly full-procedure “climb via” and “descent via” clearances. These steps reduce controller workload and are efficient and predictable for spacing and arrival sequencing. Jim Mignogna Comm-Multi-Inst.

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Clearance Pilot Weather Approach 40

Ask the Pilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

If the fuselage is breached, that squeezed-together air rushes out. The pilots will don oxygen masks and take the plane to a lower altitude in what we call, plainly enough, an “emergency descent.” There was an emergency descent to perform, as well as the necessary checklists, coordination with air traffic control, etc.

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Descent Tail Air Traffic Control Pilot 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I had an easy out available to me: a descent of 1000 feet would bring me out of the clouds with plenty of altitude to spare above the terrain. Normally, when approaching a non-towered airport like Williamson Sodus, air traffic control will instruct the inbound aircraft to "squawk VFR" (i.e., That cannot happen in the FRZ.

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

Even though I was likely to be cleared through the outer ring by ATC (air traffic control) while on an instrument flight plan, I filed a route from Sodus to the Williamsport VOR (FQM) that circumvented the TFR entirely. I pulled the power back and set a notch of flaps to establish a 90 knot, 500 foot/minute descent.

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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 97

Photographic Logbook

JULY 21, 2024

I think he was anxious about the air traffic control communications, but he planned to follow me in trail so that he could see how the radio work went. This was granted and we were issued a descent to 1,500 feet as expected. Manhattan was his white whale and it was finally going to happen for him on July 21.

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Weight-Shift-Control Clearance Approach Airplanes 52

Aerotime

MAY 16, 2024

At 22:10, just over 30 minutes after departure and with the aircraft approximately 200nm (370km) east of Singapore, the crew of flight UA28 reported to air traffic controllers in Singapore that they were having issues with the aircraft’s left engine and requested an immediate return to Changi Airport.

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Air Traffic Control Runway Descent Airlines 274