Ceiling Descent Lift 
Aerotime
DECEMBER 20, 2024
We will also examine the next most critical phase of our flight, from descent and deceleration to the approach and landing phases, even touching upon what happens when the aircraft arrives safely at the gate. Mario Hagen / Shutterstock The announcement will also be one of the first items on the pilots before-descent checklist.
Air Facts
APRIL 29, 2024
KCPC was reporting IFR conditions with a 700’ ceiling and one mile visibility. I requested a descent from 6,000’ down to 4,000’ and was denied due to traffic. I was soon cleared to descend to 4,000’ and entered IMC during the descent while I located the approach chart to brief. Was this rule being broken? Not really.
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Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Often, turbulence is the harbinger of mountain waves, not the ideal ceiling—and visibility unlimited—day. Flight idle and nose down, which normally produced a 2,000-3,000-feet descent rate, resulted in a 2,000-feet-per-minute climb. We had been lifted above our assigned altitude.” Airspeed was approaching VMO.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
It was also the first VTOL aircraft to use a jet thrust diverter system for vertical lift. It was capable of flying up to 172 mph (277 km/h, 149 knots) and reach a service ceiling of 18,000 ft (5,500 m). The inset in the lower right-hand corner of the photo is a close-up of the Bell X-14A during descent.
Air Facts
JANUARY 6, 2025
The flight had been unremarkable for a wintery Midwest afternoon, typical with low ceilings and IFR conditions. Light icing in the descent, we had briefed the increased Vref speeds as we had many times before. It was the first officers (FO) leg to fly and I was the pilot monitoring.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 11, 2024
Moments after climbing through the ceiling over Beverly, MA. We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. Approaching the Green Mountains of Vermont, the ceiling began to close back up. This meant that there would be no getting into Sodus unless the ceiling lifted.
Flying Magazine
MAY 15, 2024
VFR to MVFR…then 2 miles visibility and a ceiling of 1,200 feet agl. Put the aircraft in level flight to give them a moment to consider their next course of action so they are not anxiously doing climbs, descents, and unplanned turns. Usually that limitation is lifted as the learner gains more experience as a pilot.
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