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

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There’s even an alert for weight and balance when your center of gravity is out of limits. Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. Here’s a rundown of what you might hear.

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Drone Lingo Simplified: Acronyms Every Pilot Needs To Know

Pilot Institute

Information transmitted via ATIS can include weather information, NOTAMs, available approaches, or active runaways. CG Center of Gravity For any given body, the CG is the average position of the weight distribution of an object. ATIS recordings are updated periodically or when there is a significant change in the information.

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Mastering Crosswind Landings (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Pilot Institute

If you overshoot the final, do not make a steep turn or use excessive rudder to correct for it. Final Approach Once established on final, adjust your heading to maintain the extended centerline. Hold this heading if you are flying the approach using the crab method. This puts you at risk of an accelerated stall.