Flight Training Central

MAY 29, 2024

Landing an airplane is one of the most challenging, yet satisfying tasks you’ll learn to master on your path towards becoming a private pilot. This week’s tip shows how to fly a stabilized final approach and help you visualize the steps necessary to transition from the roundout and flare to the touchdown.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Landing an airplane can be one of the most nerve-wracking tasks for a student pilot. Getting an airplane to fly is easy. An IFR pilot will run the GUMPS checklist before passing the final approach fix. Leading you to become too high and too fast on the approach. But landing it safely on the runway is a skill.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

These would guide them when they couldn’t see anything outside their airplane. The satellites then send the corrected signals back to your airplane. To fly an LPV approach, your aircraft needs a GPS receiver thats WAAS-capable. If youve got that equipment, youre set to take full advantage of LPV approaches!

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To cope with these challenges, airline glass flight decks contain a vertical navigation function (VNAV) that keeps the autopilot, and the crew, on the right path to arrive at the final approach fix, or downwind leg, at speed and on altitude. A towered airport with an approach control can make this quite easy.

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Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

You then execute a 180 o descending Final Turn maintaining 175 knots to arrive wings-level one mile from the threshold on final approach at 500 AGL. At that point, you slow to the final approach speed of 155 knots, which is held until crossing the approach-end overrun where you reduce power to touch down at 130 knots.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Have you ever thought about landing an airplane without using flaps? Think about these scenarios: maybe the flaps stop working, or youre flying an older airplane that doesnt even have them. The flatter approach makes it difficult to lose energy quickly during the flare, resulting in a longer float. What To Do if Youre Too High?

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iPad Pilot News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A pilot’s worst fearwas to look down at an EFB and see the infamous “blue screen of death” on an IFR flight while setting up for an approach. The scenario gets worse as you go to restart the device and see the message “Configuring Windows update 1 of 15…” as you near the final approach fix.

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iPad Pilot News

JUNE 7, 2024

The companion datalink traffic feature took a little longer to reach maturity, requiring your airplane to be equipped with an ADS-B Out transponder to get the full traffic picture. That limitation is now in the past since nearly every airplane flying in busy and high-altitude airspace is ADS-B out equipped.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. Traffic On Short Final – Alerts w hen on a runway, and ForeFlight detects another aircraft on a short final approach to that runway.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

When you cross the IAF, you enter the initial approach phase. Some initial approaches lead directly to the final approach. Many approaches have fixes in between called Intermediate Fixes (IF). This view starts at the IAF and shows the same waypoints as the plan view down to the missed approach segment.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 28, 2024

a long straight in final approach to the active runway. Who has final authority to accept or decline any land and hold short (LAHSO) clearance? VASI lights as shown in this illustration indicate that the airplane is below the glide slope. Runway 27 and expect a crosswind from the right. right-quartering headwind.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

If you’ve arrived at a non-towered airport recently, especially one with a busy flight school, you may have heard another airplane announce something to the effect of “overhead for the teardrop entry.” This is not an instrument procedure, but rather a way to enter the traffic pattern when approaching from the opposite side of the runway.

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AV Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

By federal regulation, airplanes that miss their required service intervals are grounded from passenger operations. Only when the schedule for the airplanes is built is the enchilada then sent to have the flight crew schedule built and so on. Three airplanes are at neighboring gates preparing to depart.

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Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Challenger 604, G-IV Contributing Writer Pilatus PC-12 on approach at ORL. Air traffic control instructions often lead to unstable approaches. The request to make a short approach or maintain a higher-than-normal speed to the final approach fix is the most common reason pilots don’t meet stable approach criteria.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

Back in the early days of jet airliners, pilots long experienced in more forgiving two- and four-engine, piston-powered prop planes found themselves running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas on the final approach to landing. Several of these unstabilized approaches resulted in major aircraft damage or worse.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Your first obligation is to maintain positive control and FLY THE AIRPLANE. Continue flying the airplane throughout the approach and landing. When compromises must be made, opt for the wind and obstacle combination that permits additional margin for error on your final approach. E Execute.

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iPad Pilot News

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, ForeFlight presents both visual pop-up and aural alerts for runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, TFRs, final approach runway, low altitude, traffic conflicts and more. Not configuring engine-out glide performance for your airplane. Updating your iPadOS the day it is released.

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Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A pilot needs to control the airplane in a manner that the wings support the weight of the airplane as long as practical to minimize stresses imposed on the landing gear by a rough surface or to prevent sinking into a soft surface. The approach for the soft-field landing is similar to the normal approach.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Subscribe Now Featured A) Two Radials Depicted From the STL VOR, there are two radials depicted that intersect with the final approach path—the R-144 and the R-194. C) FAF Identification No DME is offered for this approach, but you could use an IFR GPS to help with identification of the final approach fix waypoint at the EAVES LOM.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

On final approach, it can be the difference between recovering and crashing. We practice power-off stalls to help us identify the signs of a stall and the characteristics of your airplane when it stalls. A typical training aircraft can lose as much as 300 feet if immediate action isn’t taken to recover correctly from a stall.

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Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

ATC then informed us we were number two for the approach and to maintain 4,000’. This necessitated slowing the airplane down to leave the vertical space to descend another 2,000’ to reach the initial approach fix (IAF) at 2,000′ I requested a descent to the IAF altitude of 2,000’ but was only cleared to 3,000’.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The many analyses and videos on these topics have been done in what can best be described as laboratory conditions—carefully selected ideal conditions of pilot, airplane, and environment. This approach gives perspective on all factors, including those that might otherwise be ignored or unrecognized.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Three-Bar VASI To help you when flying long-bodied airplanes, like the Boeing 747 or the McDonnell Douglas MD-11, some airports use the three-bar VASI. A VASI shows how far your eyes are from the correct approach path, not the wheels. Both systems work without needing complex electronics in your airplane.

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Inspire

JUNE 15, 2021

Crazy wind gusts on final approach with very poor visibility through the windshield made for a very close call that could have been a disaster. Thanks to a lot of luck and a little bit of pilot skill, both the airplane and I made it home safely. The post Lessons Learned: When Not to Fly first appeared on Hangar Flying.

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Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

A perfectly good airplane with everything operating as expected. A high degree of pilot proficiency, competence as well as currency (currency in Circling Approaches specifically). What speed on final approach? Speed should be target (Vref) + 10 kts, in full landing configuration until the final approach segment.

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Photographic Logbook

JUNE 1, 2024

Tom and Ed with their airplanes at the fuel farm at Sodus. You see the other airplane, right?" We plotted a course around an active jump zone over Orange Municipal (KORE), readied the airplanes for departure, and saddled up. Lined up on final approach for runway 34 at Jaffrey. came the response from Tower.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

However, if the airplane is used for frequent IFR travel into Class B and C airports, then the full-glass panel makeover, complete with ADS-B In and Out, may be in order. Recently, I approached the choice of new glass cockpit or enhanced round dials with detailed research and exacting logic. So, What Did I Decide?

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Flight Training Central

MAY 30, 2024

There are several strategies (see below), but regardless of which method you choose, make sure that each time you approach your simulator you treat it as an airplane and not a toy. Although approaches done on a non-certified system do not count towards the required FAA 61.57

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Even slowed by a 25 knot headwind, the airplane still saved time. We broke out of the clouds and the rain well before the final approach fix and landed among lights lining the runway of an otherwise dark and deserted airport. Ground team! hours at night and in IMC, respectively.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 14, 2024

We reached the island shortly after numerous other arrivals, our five airplanes creating a small arrival push at the uncontrolled general aviation airport. Final approach, runway 28, Block Island State Airport. Happily, they had a set of open ended wrenches that we took back to the airplane us. Photo by Steve.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This approach chart, also called an approach plate, provides all the information you need to fly a VOR approach. Initial Approach Fix (IAF): This is a specific point where the approach procedure starts, allowing you to set up the aircraft with the inbound course for the final approach.

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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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Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Most modern training airplanes provide a comfortable, warm cabin up in the air, even as the temperature approaches 0° F outside. If your flight needs to get out early in the morning, the airplane should be hangared overnight and pulled out just before departure.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Everything seems to be going well on approach, and then out of nowhere, you feel the jolt. The wheels touch down too hard, and before you know it, the airplane is bouncing right back into the air. For most light aircraft, you should aim for a descent rate of 500 feet per minute on the final approach. What do you do?

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They’re even sorted by altitude so you can find the option that best matches the performance of your airplane. I used this trick when flying into Nashville recently and was able to determine they were using the ILS or RNAV Runway 20L approach and using runway 20C for departures. But here’s where your NextGen tools can help.

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Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Believe it or not, the aircraft is pinned on the tower and I don’t know how long we are going to be able to stay here and I don’t know– Dispatch : Wait, are you the airplane pilot? The LPV approach relies on the pilot flying a highly accurate descent path to the decision altitude. Mooney pilot : We are in the tower.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Understanding MDA and DA in IFR Approaches How do you land an aircraft if you cant see well because of clouds or fog? Pilots use special paths called IFR approaches to help them line up with the runway. These paths guide the airplane safely during its descent. DA (Decision Altitude) : Used in precision approaches like ILS.

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