Vintage Aviation News

JULY 23, 2024

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Threshold Airplanes Airlines Airline 98

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

Once wings-level on the Inside Downwind, you lower the gear and flaps and, approximately one mile beyond the landing threshold, you reduce power at The Perch. 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.

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Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

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. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. Approach Speed When crossing the threshold, you must ensure you fly the correct approach speed.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

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. So, you should practice maintaining the correct sight picture by aligning the runway threshold with a fixed reference point on the windscreen.

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Pilot Drag Descent Approach 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

If youre flying an airplane with a short wingspan, you should do everything you can to avoid severe wake turbulence. This distance is measured when the preceding aircraft is over the runway threshold. This includes single or multi-engine prop airplanes including Cessnas and Pipers. Mass and inertia also matter.

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Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It actually flew fine, and it flies like a normal airplane. “If you view the video of the first flight on YouTube ( LINK ), you’ll see the airplane does some wiggling around, but most of that was done on purpose as I was trying to get the feel of it as fast as I could.” It is a terrible airplane for crosswinds.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Using the VASI is crucial as it gives you safe obstruction clearance within 10 degrees of either side of the runway centerline and around four nautical miles from the runway threshold. 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.

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Runway Approach Threshold Clearance 98

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

These would guide them when they couldn’t see anything outside their airplane. The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach. The satellites then send the corrected signals back to your airplane. Lets look at each type of approach and see how it works.

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Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

GA pilots find time-tested and more creative ways to skitter off the side of the runway, land short of the threshold, or slide off the far end with the brakes smoking and tires squealing. Better to explain an unplanned go-around than to write a big check for a banged-up airplane, or worse.

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Stability Approach Runway Pilot 88

Aerotime

OCTOBER 25, 2024

 However, all those students qualifying through CAE will encounter the same curriculum, level of standards, and threshold testing as students trained at NAV CANADA.   Indeed, as the density of air traffic continues to rise in the future, so will the key skills required to keep airplanes apart in limited airspace become increasingly complex.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Cabin Crew Threshold 263

Flight Training Central

JULY 12, 2024

This identifies the critical area for the instrument landing system, located near the ILS antenna array, where an airplane on the ground (or vehicle) in that space could interfere with the radio signals for airplanes flying an ILS instrument approach.

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Instrument Landing System Threshold Ceiling Runway 52

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 24, 2025

Special VFR (SVFR) is a clearance that is given to an aircraft by ATC that allows flights in controlled airspace under VFR when weather is below standard VFR minimums but above IFR thresholds. This is usually near airports in Class B, C, D, or E airspace.

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Clearance Pilot in Command Ceiling Weather 52

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. What can be problematic, though, is that the sounds coming from the iPad’s small speaker are typically drowned out by your airplane’s engine noise.

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AGL Runway Groundspeed Descent 52

AV Web

MAY 12, 2024

Even though it’s been approved for use in virtually every gasoline airplane on the U.S. For Shepler, the airplanes ceased to be a mere annoyance. A few are right on the threshold where EPA starts taking notice. They became spewers of poison that were unleashing toxins on a little girl who had already been through so much.

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Threshold Airplanes 76

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 13, 2024

The wheels touch down too hard, and before you know it, the airplane is bouncing right back into the air. Common Aircraft Types Bounced landings can occur in different airplane models, including the popular Cessna 172. Everything seems to be going well on approach, and then out of nowhere, you feel the jolt. What do you do?

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Descent Runway Rudder Pilot 52

Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

The squadron now has two newly minted naval aviators, one retread and no airplanes. We know that our new airplanes will be the F2H-3 Banshee night fighter. To get a little better view approaching the threshold I leaned to my left and stretched up to maybe see a little more of the runway.

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Runway Airplanes Pilot Pilot in Command 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Not knowing the B-52 had arrived ahead of schedule, the four minutes that passed during the 5-mile final seemed like an hour, and when the mains touched down just inside the threshold, we both let out a sigh of relief. It was only after exiting the runway that we noticed the B-52 ahead of us awaiting its own taxi instructions.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways Start by setting up your approach correctly to ensure you arrive at the threshold perfectly every time. You can only begin improving the touchdown if you’ve mastered positioning your aircraft above the runway threshold correctly. Flying the Approach Haphazard approaches are very likely to lead to haphazard landings.

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Descent Weight-Shift-Control Crosswind Runway 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area. Usually, this is small, light aircraft used in general aviation(single-engine airplanes). Glideslope The glideslope (GS) provides us with vertical guidance.

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Approach Knot Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power. After all, pilots become used to moving the power to idle when crossing the runway threshold. Check out How to Perfect Your Airplane Landings.

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NOTAMs Runway Approach Descent 52

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. The aiming point at an actual short field should be as close to the threshold as is safe. Airplanes with higher wing loading may need power all the way until the flare. Downwind Phase Complete the before-landing checklist.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Approach Density Altitude 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

We broke out right at the missed approach point which is much too high and close to the runway threshold to make a normal landing. Conditions were about the same at Rochester, but the ILS-28 approach goes down to 200 feet and we broke out well before the runway threshold to make a standard landing. Still IFR, but barely.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 1964, Mock was the first woman to fly solo around the world in this airplane as described in her memoir, Three Eight Charlie. The first roadable airplane to be certified by the Civil Aviation Administration (forerunner to the FAA) in 1950 was invented by Robert Fulton, Jr. But it is an interesting curiosity. Cockpit of a DC-7.

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Airplanes General Aviation Cockpit Transponder 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

You should read up on the dangers of hypoxia to recognize all its signs and symptoms, but in general, you should: Begin using oxygen as soon as you reach the altitude thresholds set by the FAA or your personal limits. The oxygen concentration in an airplane at sea level is approximately 21 percent.

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Pilot Threshold Stability General Aviation 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 6, 2024

Unaided, with thresholds no worse than listed below: Sound Levels Ear Condition 500 Hz 1,000 Hz 2,000 Hz 3,000 Hz Better Ear 35 dB 30 dB 30 dB 40 dB Worse Ear 35 dB 50 dB 50 dB 60 dB Ear, Nose, and Throat The applicant must not have throat issues that could cause a speech problem. You can also take the pure tone audiometric test.

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Pilot Threshold Airplanes Knot 52

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Unable to turn, climb, or descend the aircraft using conventional flight control inputs and effectively left to fly an unflyable airplane, the crew were forced to rely on engine power alone to find and reach a suitable airfield and attempt a landing. With 296 passengers and crew onboard that day, the stakes could not have been higher.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 306

AV Web

MARCH 18, 2025

Weve been doing this for decades and we have observed that, depending on the type of airplane, 10 to 25 percent of the accidents arise out of engine power loss or stoppage (with big-bore engines being near the upper end of the range). Further it mandates a borescope inspection whenever a compression test is performed.

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Threshold Drag Airplanes General Aviation 55

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

I urged all participants to be airborne by 7:00 am if we were to have any chance of securing limited airplane parking spots on the ice of Alton Bay. He grew up near Lake Winnipesaukee, had watched airplanes landing on the ice as a kid, and never dreamed that he would someday arrive in one. Should that guy be so close to the threshold?"

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Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 68

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

READ MORE: What Does It Take to Transition from a Jet to a Piston Airplane? Often outflow boundaries or gust fronts produce low reflectivity returns that fall below the threshold used to filter out other clutter not associated with actual areas of precipitation.

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Wind Shear Weather Turbulence Knot 114

AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. The accident airplane was the last one among a group of five, and two landings had been performed without incident. The private pilot was fatally injured. Subsequently, its pitch attitude increased.

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Final Approach Airplanes Drag Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Rapidly and efficiently, Hoover started the airplane and prepped for departure, briefly explaining some of its systems for the benefit of us earthbound neophytes. Hoover then pulled the aircraft up into a sharp climb that culminated in a zero-G stall maneuver, making the airplane and its wide-eyed passengers weightless for a brief moment.

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Tarmac 98

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

That said, slipping the weight threshold down would be an easy move for any airport administrationand merits monitoring. So, all of a sudden, just flying your airplane away after ignoring that bill puts you in violation of the law. A photo snapped of your airplane turning off the runway would have you caught red-handed.

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Pilot Transponder NOTAMs Threshold 56

Cranky Flier

AUGUST 19, 2024

It just had to reach a certain threshold. Southwest Comes to Long Beach In June 2016, Southwest landed its first airplane in Long Beach. The problem with this strategy was that other airlines could step in and use those slots during the time JetBlue wasn’t using them. And that’s when the long beginning of the end arrived.

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Threshold Airlines Airline Runway 317

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

With eyes closed and still on the threshold of sleep, I considered how either good or dismal weather conditions might exist outside. After a blur of grey days in early 2025, direct sunlight, a crisp blue sky, and a smoothly running airplane engine were powerful antidotes to our first "real" winter in years.

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Weather Annual Inspection Threshold Airplanes 78

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Folding up the chart to show the first leg, I took a look around to make sure I had not forgotten anything I walked up to the airplane and placed my chart, E6-B, and plotter on the instrument panel. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. I lined up and continued to descend.

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Runway Threshold Approach AGL 71

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 2, 2024

The pilot “locked up the brakes and the airplane skidded sideways,” almost going off the end of the runway. The airplane initially climbed straight out, reaching 1,200 feet, then the pilot declared an emergency to air traffic control (ATC), stating something about a fire, and turned back to the airport. Approximately 1.7

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Airplanes Runway Density Altitude Pilot 52