Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

Any NOTAMS applicable? For example, some aircraft limit flaps and gear in icing until on approach or forbid the use of speed brakes or require a minimum thrust setting. If you depart MDA on the downwind or base leg, you’re on your own as far as obstacle clearance. How truly important is this current approach to mission success?

Approach 97

Approach AGL Descent Runway 97

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

These include lift, propeller thrust, and engine combustion. For example, if we were to takeoff on an airfield at sea level at 0C (32F), it would take 1520ft to reach our obstacle clearance height of 50ft. Whereas for the same airfield on a different day, if it were 30C (86F), that same obstacle clearance height would take 1880ft.

Density Altitude 52

Density Altitude Pilot True Airspeed Lift 52

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 4, 2025

The rest is just lift, drag, thrust, weather, and navigation. I rarely received an entire clearance when requesting IFR while en route. Read the NOTAMs! Of course, he had spent several hours in the Everglades waiting to be rescued from the alligators, so I was sympathetic. Oh, and some money.

Flight Plan 79

Flight Plan Weather True Airspeed Airplanes 79