Air Traffic Control Descent Jet 
Aerotime
APRIL 29, 2024
However, as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, the footage appears to show the aircraft making little attempt to arrest its rate of descent or initiate a flare by raising its nose to bleed off any excess airspeed before it touches down.
Aerotime
DECEMBER 20, 2024
We will also examine the next most critical phase of our flight, from descent and deceleration to the approach and landing phases, even touching upon what happens when the aircraft arrives safely at the gate. Jet (and turboprop) turbine engines work more efficiently, and burn less fuel, at higher altitudes where the air is less dense.
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Plane and Pilot
JANUARY 5, 2025
Air traffic control, responding to the pilots odd transmission, simplified the clearance, issuing just a heading and an altitude. The roll was not checked by the pilot and continued past 60 degrees of bank and the descent rate increased. A sharp pilot should be able to handle this workload without losing control.
Fear of Landing
MARCH 21, 2025
Memorial Bridge, where the helicopter may cross to join Route 5 or continue to turn over the Tidal Basin, is a compulsory reporting point: pilots must report to air traffic control that they have reached that position as they follow the shore of the Potomac. The tower controller cleared a jet for departure from runway 01.
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.
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.
Air Facts
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
We were nearing the LAX airport at 18,000 feet and starting to get busy with the descent into SAN. I can assure you that the right engine is indeed running and is spinning at about 15,000 rpm while consuming jet fuel at 3,500 pounds per hour.
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