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Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights

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The alert will only sound once every 60 seconds and is automatically disabled if groundspeed is less than 40 knots. Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. AGL after having been above 1,000 ft.

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Managing the wind

Air Facts

Though wind is reported using such simple numbers like 270@15G20, I’ve come to believe that 20 knots here is not always the same as 20 knots there. I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. Then came the landing in 20 knots in the Hill Country of Texas, west of Austin.

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Riding the Mountain Waves

Plane and Pilot

Airspeed was approaching VMO. Eighty-knot tailwinds aloft and higher-than-normal temperature difference between the surface and aloft. Using my 80-knot tailwind and a stationary wave, my groundspeed and therefore penetration speed through the wave would be 160 knots faster than an upwind approach and theoretically more turbulent.

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Plane and Pilot

Around halfway, cruising at 3,000 feet at 180 knots, onboard avionics data indicates increasing temperature in one of the cylinder heads lasting about five minutes. ATC rolled the emergency vehicles and cleared her to land straight in on Runway 13, wind 080 at 6 knots, with the wingman flying escort. They took off at 4:45 p.m.

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Flying a Skylane From Canada to Belize

Air Facts

The year was 2017, and I was two months into my first pilot job flying skydivers in the C182 at a small Canadian drop zone, when my boss approached me with this question. This was indeed the case as I observed my GPS indicated ground speed to be 165 Knots. My approach into St. I have no words to describe this remarkable view.

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Flying Through the Center of a Trough Should Have Been Uneventful

Flying Magazine

hour flight in a Columbia 400 from Rock Hill/York County Airport ( KUZA ) in South Carolina, just south of Charlotte, to Lincoln Park Airport (N07) in northern New Jersey was uneventful with outstanding weather and smooth air ahead of an approaching weather system. Our groundspeed was a meager 72 knots as we descended on the glideslope.

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Flying to Sun ‘n Fun 2024

Air Facts

With a screaming tailwind, I was seeing a groundspeed of 185 kts at 6,500 feet. This had the effect of a rapid reduction of airspeed (to 80 knots) as the autopilot fought to maintain altitude. On the other side of the wave, the airspeed increased to 150 knots. I was airborne in roughly one hour. hours flight time.

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