One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 13, 2024

With the end of 2024 approaching, I want to recap Marriott Bonvoys Choice Benefits program. Even elite nights not earned through stays qualify toward these thresholds. It sure is helpful to be able to start the year with 40 elite nights, as that gets you most of the way to the two Choice Benefits thresholds.

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Threshold Approach 107

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. However, not all types of aircraft are meant to take the same approach path. What Is VASI?

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Runway Approach Threshold Clearance 90

Aeroclass Blog

APRIL 24, 2024

Image source: [link] In practice, there are nine main types, namely: Approach Lights Threshold Lights Threshold End Lights The lights of Runway End Identification Runway Edge Lights Runway End Light PAPI Lights Taxiway Lights Obstruction Aviation Lights Each of them has its own meaning, function, and color.

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Runway Threshold Approach Air Traffic Control 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Pilots must adapt their approach and landing technique during flap failure. The flaps on an aircraft are used for controlled descents with slower airspeed during the approach and landing. Certain Conditions Certain conditions, such as severe icing or busy airspace (request for faster approach), may require a no-flaps landing.

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Pilot Descent Drag Approach 52

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It was hoped that this approach would avoid another overspill situation as previously encountered at Le Bourget and Orly. To combat this issue, the airport devised a revolutionary new method of fog dispersal using a series of Mistral fighter jet engines dispersed along the threshold and touchdown zones of one of the runways.

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Runway Jet Crosswind Threshold 274

Fly With Stan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Madeira airport is very famous for its complicated approach; specially on a windy a stormy days. The distance is approximately 280NM and the flight time on the ATR72 is around 1:30-1:45 minutes depending on the winds and traffic at Madeira (and also Tenerife south airport). Safe flights!

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Threshold Runway Approach Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The ILS approach has revolutionized aviation and the types of weather we can fly in. Including how it became the most reliable approach for pilots in aviation history. The ILS is a type of approach pilots use to land. It is a precision approach aid based on two radio beams. This is most likely thanks to the ILS.

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Approach Knot Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Briefing A pre-landing briefing highlights essential points critical to the approach and landing phase. It also allows you to focus on flying during the last stages of the approach and landing. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. Not sure where to begin?

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

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. In certain cases, they will need to communicate with an approach facility, but they should be able to issue you a special VFR clearance.

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Clearance Pilot in Command Ceiling Weather 52

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

It only takes a 10% increase in approach speed to increase the landing roll by 20%. These obstacles frequently affect the approach and missed approach paths. Plan your approach path carefully to eliminate large pitch and power changes. Full flaps are generally used since they lower approach speed and increase drag.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Approach Descent 52

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways Start by setting up your approach correctly to ensure you arrive at the threshold perfectly every time. Perfect the approach phase by managing the aircraft’s energy and using references to improve positioning throughout the pattern. The easiest way to achieve this is by flying a stabilized approach.

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Descent Weight-Shift-Control Crosswind Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. 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.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

As you approach the airport, monitor UNICOM for landing or departing traffic. Another performance factor is the approach speed. The slower the approach, the shorter the landing distance. Many aircraft have specific recommended normal and short-field approach speeds. It will allow you to fine-tune your approach.

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NOTAMs Runway Approach Descent 52

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 15, 2024

Earn lifetime Marriott Bonvoy elite status My take on Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card elite perks I think getting elite perks with the Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Card represents a phenomenal value, but I also want to make sure people manage expectations appropriately, so let me share how I approach the value of this card.

Threshold 111

Threshold Approach 111

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Hearing no other traffic in the area, Wilkins opted for a relatively straight-in approach to Runway 22, once again dancing on the rudder pedals and wrestling the ailerons as the gusty winds threatened to shove us off the pavement. As the sun began its descent, we began the final leg of what would end up being a four-hour trek.

Runway 81

Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 81

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. Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach. Another six percent occurred on final approach, after completing the turn to final. The private pilot was fatally injured.

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Final Approach Airplanes Drag Pilot 52

Fly With Stan

JANUARY 13, 2023

When clouds start to form, visual approach into this airport could become pretty complicated or maybe impossible. Threshold of the former runway 03 at Breña Alta airport And how about the runway? The aerodrome was opened in 1955 and served until 1970. But again, it’s not accesible. All doors and windows have been blocked.

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Runway Threshold Approach 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

As I approached the river, the plane started to settle faster than it had. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. As I approached the center of the river and cliff, suddenly I was below the runway, looking up at the cliff. It dawned on me what probably happened on my final approach.

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Runway Threshold Approach AGL 56

Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

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. The approach and touch down were normal. The view from the rear seat is mostly out the side window. I applied some left brake for a correction which did not seem to have any effect.

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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. For most light aircraft, you should aim for a descent rate of 500 feet per minute on the final approach. For example, The Cessna 172 has an approach speed of 65 knots with full flaps. What do you do?

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Descent Runway Rudder Pilot 52

The Aviationist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Raytheon’s John Norman told journalists that the AMRAAM’s range is approaching that threshold capability that the Air Force would like to have with JATM when it’s fielded operationally. Raytheon’s under-development AIM-120D3 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range [.]

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Threshold Approach 23

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Like a sailplane, we glided silently in a lazy, downward spiral until we were lined up with the runway at the correct altitude for our approach. We crossed the threshold just a few feet above the tarmac, and our intrepid pilot announced, “This is what I call the Tennessee waltz.”

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Tarmac 80

One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Reaching the $5,000 threshold has nothing to do with the calendar or cardmember year — the counter simply resets every time you spend $5,000, and then you start earning toward your next two elite nights. This means that in theory, you could spend your way all the way to Explorist or Globalist status, if you wanted to.

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Approach Threshold Airlines Airline 111

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It’s nice to have an accurate digital display, especially on a bumpy approach. Landing Bugs Bug 1 and 2: V Ref – Landing Reference/Threshold Crossing speed (bugs are positioned together). Orange Command Bug: V App Approach speed (V Ref + additions for winds/gust). The window is blank below.400

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Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed Knot Altimeter 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

I spotted another green stripes livery on this A330-900neo on final approach to this airport. Anyway, on our approach to Athens, we were greeted with a spectacular view of the landscape but there was quite a bit of crosswind which made the ride slightly uncomfortable but not long after we landed smoothly on runway 21L.

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Airlines Airline Weather Turbulence 52

One Mile at a Time

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In this post I wanted to take a look at how I’d go about deciding which card to use for a large purchase, so that you can hopefully at least come up with an approach that works for you. This can either be for spending any amount, or there are certain threshold bonuses. At a minimum, just use a card that’s best for everyday spending.

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Threshold Approach Airline Airlines 111

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

READ MORE: Should I File an Initial Approach Fix? As the gust front approaches, the vertical velocity of the air upward increases quickly over a one- or two-minute period. Some gust fronts can be completely harmless or may be a precursor for an encounter with severe turbulence and dangerous low-level convective wind shear.

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Wind Shear Weather Turbulence Knot 114

Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

Photograph by Robert Frola (GFDL) via Wikimedia Commons Murwillumbah Airfield has a 19/01 grass strip which the report gives as 1,045 metres (3,428 feet), however, it is commonly listed as 800 metres as it has a displaced threshold of 245 metres on runway 19, because of industrial buildings and trees at the northern end.

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Threshold Runway Approach Pilot 70

Cranky Flier

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Elliott Passes 10% Threshold The latest in the saga between Elliott Investment Management and Southwest Airlines is that Elliott has now acquired enough shares of the carrier — 10% — to call a special meeting, which it plans to do if Southwest’s leadership does not meet its ransom demands desired changes.

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Pilot Threshold Drag Airplanes 199

Air Facts

AUGUST 26, 2024

Consider the Cherokee pilot in Wisconsin who approached too fast: “The pilot reported that during the landing at the destination airport, the airplane floated down the runway, landed long, and did not slow as expected. Neither one is good. IATA has made this a focus in recent years, with some positive results to show for it.

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Knot Runway Airplanes Pilot 92

Cranky Flier

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

And so I’m curious if you’re seeing there’s sort of a minimum threshold of where you need to be. ” Brett : Around schedule change and IROPS, how are you approaching that? Air Canada’s approach to NDC adoption has been markedly different from American’s. It just wasn’t good enough?

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Threshold Approach Airline Airlines 147

Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

As the graphs obtained directly from the watches suggest, prior to any flight, there is a rise in the heart rate above the underlying “resting” threshold. While we are programmed to understand that not all approaches must end in a landing, our egos can get in the way, and we become test-pilots for that brief interlude.

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Pilot Crosswind Cockpit Threshold 87

Ask Captain Lim

OCTOBER 15, 2023

If the captain anticipates that the estimated time of arrival would lead to fuel levels approaching this critical threshold, he should declare a PAN PAN distress call, which grants him priority and a more direct route for landing. After a harrowing series of attempts, the aircraft finally touched down at Batam Airport.

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Air Traffic Control Weather Threshold Airlines 52

Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

What if the airplane pitched over on final approach? I entered a left base, lowered the landing gear and set the flaps to the approach setting with no pitch problems. But just as I crossed the runway threshold at 50 feet, the genie leaped from its bottle and the nose once again pitched over violently.

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Airplanes Runway Lift Tail 75

NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

Go Around – An aborted landing by an aircraft that is on final approach. Missed Approach – The procedure followed when an instrument approach cannot be completed to a full stop landing. The first step in executing a missed approach is to initiate a go around. REIL – Runway End Identifier Lights.

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Runway Air Traffic Control Approach Weather 52

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.   She added: “NAV CANADA has allowed us to approach former or retired ATC controllers who have agreed to come to CAE as trainers to get this program off the ground.

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Cabin Crew Threshold 260