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

iPad Pilot News

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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Danger lurks in circling approaches

Air Facts

If you depart MDA on the downwind or base leg, you’re on your own as far as obstacle clearance. What speed on final approach? Be fully configured and on speed prior to receiving landing clearance. What are the criteria for a Missed Approach Command? Is the Missed Approach altitude at or above the MDA?

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My Near Death Experience

Air Facts

At the current groundspeed, I believed it shouldn’t be of much concern unless the cell began producing lightning. I queried ATC about when to expect the approach clearance and was informed that the Saratoga had appeared to land but the pilot hadn’t contacted ATC to close his IFR flight plan. The IAF was looming closer.

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