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. Lift and Drag Modifications A no-flaps landing significantly reduces drag and lift, which is why the approach is flown at a higher speed.

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Plane and Pilot

APRIL 14, 2025

From 1991-98, the original Nemesis became the winningest airplane in air race history, capturing 45 of 48 events. He flies downwind leg at 150 mph, final approach at 130, and touchdown at 110the NXT stalls at 90 mph. Obviously, longer runways are required, and the skill level to handle this high-speed taildragger is quite high.

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Airfoil Final Approach Drag Tail 75

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Approach minima. Requirements and restrictions for the approach. Airport information, such as the length of the runway and the approach lighting pattern. As a pilot flying this approach, you need to know where to look for the right information at the right time. Communication and navigational radio frequencies.

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Approach Descent Runway Final Approach 52

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. But landing it safely on the runway is a skill. Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

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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Turbulence Runway AGL Airplanes 98

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. No pressure.

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Stability Approach Runway Pilot 93

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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Crosswind Airplanes Runway Approach 98

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They are the Visual Approach Slope Indicator and Precision Approach Path Indicator. These systems are designed to help you stay on the correct glide path as you approach the runway. VASI and PAPI each have their own approach. A VASI shows how far your eyes are from the correct approach path, not the wheels.

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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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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 98

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 1, 2024

Tom and Ed with their airplanes at the fuel farm at Sodus. In my case, I reached a midfield left downwind simultaneously with another Cherokee on a right midfield downwind for the same strip of pavement, runway 2. 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

Over the last three years, The Bear has expressed great interest in visiting Alton Bay, the only FAA-authorized ice runway in the continental United States. A very brief 2022 season for the ice runway eliminated opportunities to return that year. The Bear was furious that she missed out. The Bear and me flying to Alton Bay!

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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 is the runway lighting? Only accurate within 10 degrees of runway heading). What speed on final approach? No later than).

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Approach AGL Descent Runway 97

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.

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Pilot Airplanes Descent Cockpit 98

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Runway 14, a 4,202 foot runway , was in use. During the final stages of the flight, air traffic control told the pilot to expect the RNAV A approach to Montgomery County. The pilot asked for the RNAV GPS RWY 14 approach, which had lower minimums. View of GPS track when viewed from landing runway (NTSB) At about 1.25

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Approach Runway Air Traffic Control Descent 97

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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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. We overflew the airport at 1,000 feet above the pattern from north to south, then made an arcing, descending turn to the 45° entry for the downwind leg to runway 28. Photo by Steve.

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Runway Weather Airplanes Approach 89

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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Flight Deck Approach Air Traffic Control Final Approach 100

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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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. The excess speed causes the aircraft to bounce on the runway surface. Allow your aircraft to settle back onto the runway.

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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. IFR approaches use something called approach minimums.

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

I launched from runway 10 right at 7:00 am, climbing eastbound toward the crimson sunrise before turning on course. I turned downwind for runway 27 at the Dowagiac Municipal Airport (C91) and found myself in light rain with the sun at my back. Hello and Goodbye Final approach, runway 27L, Oakland County International ("Pontiac").

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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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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. The problem is you may not be able to receive the ATIS at this range, so there’s no way to confirm which runway or instrument approach is in use to begin preparing for the approach.

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Clearance Weather Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) approach might seem challenging at first, but like anything, practice makes perfect. This type of approach is a non-precision instrument procedure that uses ground-based radio signals to guide you safely to a waypoint or the runway, even when visibility is poor.

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Air Facts

MARCH 26, 2025

But as I banked into my final approach, my heart sank. The main gear struck the runway with surprising force, causing me to balloon far above the runway. Startled, I pushed the nose down, the airplane dropped like a rock, and I began to porpoise. Glancing back at my instruments, my heart came into my throat.

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ABEAM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

We prepped the airplane. We took off from runway 25 (via backtrack) southbound IFR to Shefferville via DIRECT. At Shefferville , the weather was really bad in rain and landed via the RNP runway 17… the airport was completely empty ! ATC assigned runway 18 and landed. We cruised at 8000 ft.

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Weather Runway Airplanes Approach 52

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

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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Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Flying the Approach Haphazard approaches are very likely to lead to haphazard landings. You can only begin improving the touchdown if you’ve mastered positioning your aircraft above the runway threshold correctly. The easiest way to achieve this is by flying a stabilized approach. Hold a constant pitch angle.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

There are two primary providers for approach plates: the FAA and Jeppesen. The heading contains the city, state, airport, runway, and approach name. An approach plate has four main sections: Pilot briefing information. Final approach course. Approach notes. Missed approach procedures.

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Approach NOTAMs Runway Weather 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Runway incursions are caused by lapses in awareness and communication. Its key elements include: Upwind leg: After takeoff, you fly straight out, climbing away from the runway. Crosswind leg: You turn 90 degrees to the upwind leg, flying perpendicular to the runway. Determining the Active Runway Where is the active runway based?

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Air Facts

APRIL 24, 2024

After a few minutes of flying through the “chop,” our runway was in sight. Then, descending through just a few hundred feet AGL, and a few hundred yards from the end of the runway, the turbulence diminished. That was the longest, most terrifying final approach—actually the only terrifying final approach—I’ve ever experienced.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A Learjet 35A business jet has suffered a runway excursion while landing at Scottsdale Airport (SDL) close to Phoenix, Arizona. According to reports, the aircraft experienced a main landing gear failure on touch-down, leading to the aircraft departing the paved runway surface and colliding with a parked Gulfstream G200 aircraft.

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Runway Final Approach Jet Approach 221

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are at the runway’s landing end. Where these beams intercept is the centreline of the approach. There can be up to three marker beacons on an approach: Outer Marker (flashes blue) – Represents the Final Approach Fix and/or glideslope intercept. Let’s review them.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

ATC was great, the FBO (FlightLevel - Beverly) treated us well and charged reasonable fees, and radar services were managed by the perennially capable Boston Approach. We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. This was not a good setup to manage an approach down to minimums.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 9, 2024

As an aviator, I crave the novelty of these aerial vistas and compulsively fly to new places to absorb uncommon beauty streaming in through my airplane's windscreen. Boston Skyways -- a Boston Logan Tower frequency dedicated to city tour traffic -- will set restrictions for pilots based on which runways are in active use at Logan.

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Clearance Runway Approach Stability 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

A few years ago, I got the bug to fly small airplanes again. We fly our new-to-us Piper to Florida often (the airplane could probably find Orlando on its own), and we agreed it was time for something more adventurous. Our Aircraft Our family’s airplane is a 1976 Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six.

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