Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

I requested a descent from 6,000’ down to 4,000’ and was denied due to traffic. I was soon cleared to descend to 4,000’ and entered IMC during the descent while I located the approach chart to brief. I began a rapid descent from 3,000’ down to the 2,000’ for the IAF. We’re now following a Saratoga. The IAF was looming closer.

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AV Web

JANUARY 8, 2025

Routing around thunderstorms or changing altitude for icing or turbulence are options I like to exercise, which require a little extra fuel for breathing room. Also see the sidebar on the opposite page for a real-world example involving the editor-in-chiefs airplane. I typically cruise the airplanes IO-520 at around 13 gph.

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Payload Airplanes Approach Descent 105

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Aerodynamic Differences Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Airplanes) Airplanes , or fixed-wing aircraft, generate lift through their stationary wings as they move forward. Control Mechanisms Airplane Controls In airplanes, pilots manage flight using three primary controls: the ailerons, elevator, and rudder.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Both apps have all the features and capabilities to feel right at home in the cockpit of a student pilot learning to fly, while simultaneously meeting the needs of professional pilots flying turbine airplanes. It also activates the split-screen view and displays the emergency checklist for your airplane. in the app as well.

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Pilot Weather Flight Plan Approach 105

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

Our friends at the Flight Safety Foundation take the definition of a stabilized approach a bit further and specify that all briefings and checklists have been completed, sink rates are no more than 1,000 feet per minute (for jets), and only small changes in pitch, power, and heading are required to maintain the planned descent and touchdown point.

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Stability Approach Runway Pilot 83

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 1, 2024

Tom and Ed with their airplanes at the fuel farm at Sodus. As I watched the other aircraft make a turning descent toward the runway numbers, I wondered if the tower was going to want to call my base as a way of sequencing us. You see the other airplane, right?" I acknowledged and noted that I had the Cherokee in sight.

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Runway Approach Airplanes Turbulence 88

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. 164 airplanes.)

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 89

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Now, as you fight turbulence and radio for help, you must make life-or-death decisions. And they told him that other airplanes were making it through without trouble. Technological Factors in Aviation Weather Monitoring N4467D was a modern airplane. When the pilot reported severe turbulence, ATC suggested turning around.

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Weather Turbulence Pilot Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

So, what kind of airplane might fill the bill?The In a feat of incredible airmanship, he immediately began an emergency descent and landed the Goblin prototype on Muroc Dry Lake in California. However, these X-planes, having consumed all their fuel, were spared the chore of reconnecting with the mothership after the flight.

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Pilot Institute

AUGUST 2, 2024

Environmental Factors Turbulence Severe turbulence can cause disruption to an aircraft’s flight. In some cases, the aircraft may lose control due to the severity of the turbulence. An increasing rate of descent. High rate of descent – shown on your vertical speed indicator. But the incorrect recovery.

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Altimeter Descent Turbulence Lift 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

As the sun began its descent, we began the final leg of what would end up being a four-hour trek. The afternoon turbulence had subsided a bit, making it easier to maintain a holding pattern over the town of Cabot, located 6 miles from the approach end of Runway 25.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What is a Turbine Airplane There is a misconception among the public that airplanes are divided between prop and jet. Turboprop-powered airplanes are generally slower and don’t fly as high as turbofan-powered airplanes but are often just as advanced. Navigation systems are much more complex and capable.

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Pilot Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

At one point, we entered a region of sufficient turbulence that I disengaged the autopilot to hand-fly. Since we lost our LPV approaches due to obstructions along the final approach course, the downgraded LNAV minimum descent altitude for the approach to runway 28 was 558 feet above the ground.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

hours I had already put on the airplane since the repair increased my confidence that the issue was suitably managed. In a nod to airplane cleanliness, I shunned my preferred "everything" sub roll for a plain one that was guaranteed to shed less debris. However, the Warrior had no surprises in store for me and the 4.5

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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 69

Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

The landing minimums section includes: Minimum descent altitudes. Preflight Planning Some pilots believe an approach briefing means skimming the chart right before descent. Identify the decision altitude (DA) or minimum descent altitude (MDA) valid for your approach. Decision altitudes/heights. Minimum visibilities.

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Approach NOTAMs Runway Weather 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Higher altitudes are also less prone to turbulence and have fewer birds. Turbulent air will require a larger airspeed margin. Climbs and Descents During Slow Flight It’s counterintuitive, but pitching up will not result in a climb during slow flight. Wind gusts and turbulence can also throw you off your heading.

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Lift Rudder Drag Checkride 52

Professional Pilot

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

PRESS RELEASE The second of 2 TBM 960 birddog airplanes for Conair is shown in flight prior to its departure from Daher Aircrafts production and final assembly facility in Tarbes, France, for delivery to Abbotsford, Canada. operations in fighting wildfires. The new TBM 960s offer key advantages for aerial firefighting response, Benson added.

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Airplanes Turbulence Payload Descent 81

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw? The resulting loss of lift leads to a rapid descent by the aircraft.

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Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The question came up on a group on social media where a student was asking the community how to perform the Emergency Descent maneuver (PA.IX.A). Establish and maintain the appropriate airspeed and configuration appropriate to the scenario specified by the evaluator and as covered in POH/AFM for the emergency descent. PA.IX.A.S4

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Descent Aeronautical Decision-Making Airplanes Turbulence 52

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

This is a hard one to gain insight from other than this: Some atmospheric events are bigger than our plastic airplanes. Under normal circumstances Shmulik would have had sufficient altitude to delay the landing by several minutes: his glider’s minimum descent rate in still air was just 100 fpm.

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The many analyses and videos on these topics have been done in what can best be described as laboratory conditions, carefully selected optimum conditions of pilot, airplane, and environment. An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect.

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General Aviation Pilot Approach Airplanes 98

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Thinking we could be on fire, we initiated a 7000-fpm descent. Little thought is given to the fact that a 7000-fpm descent will fog the windows. We were IMC with some moderate turbulence when, out of the blue, the prisoner jumped up between us and tried to grab hold of the captain’s gun, which was in his holster. One more thing.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The B-17 is more than just an airplane. Also known as the Flying Fortress, these airplanes flew in every theater from start to finish, but will always be remembered for the job they did in the hostile skies over Europe as the workhorse of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. There are few airplanes as emblematic as the Flying Fortress.

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Airplanes Descent Pilot Weather 105

One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Japan Airlines business class drink list Japan Airlines business class drink list Service started a little under an hour after takeoff (this was delayed due to turbulence), with warm towels being distributed first, followed by tablecloths. Japan Airlines business class warm towel At that point drinks and canaps were offered.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

When he attempted to contact the tower again, he discovered that the antenna on his primary radio was gone, having iced over during his descent through the overcast and snapped off. However, when Kidder broke through the clouds at 1,500 feet, all he could see was freezing water below him.

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Weather Tail Drag Ceiling 124

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

TOL makes you bring your passengers and crew members off the airplane to go through a very rigorous customs and immigration inspection, with the federal police canine units included overseeing the process. That incident cost us half an hour talking to an airport inspector.

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