Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

Once wings-level on the Inside Downwind, you lower the gear and flaps and, approximately one mile beyond the landing threshold, you reduce power at The Perch. You then execute a 180 o descending Final Turn maintaining 175 knots to arrive wings-level one mile from the threshold on final approach at 500 AGL.

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Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

He used the first officer’s airspeed indicator and visual cues out of the cockpit windows to determine the flight path of the plane and the need for any power changes. The approach to Sioux City With the aircraft at a range of about nine miles from touchdown at Sioux City, the crew made visual contact with the airport.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 294

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. Examination of the accident site confirmed flight-control continuity from the cockpit to all flight control surfaces. Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach.

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Final Approach Airplanes Drag Crosswind 52

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

Runway Final Approach Alert – Alerts when approaching any runway, based on altitude, vertical speed, track, and when within 4 nm of the runway threshold. Traffic On Short Final – Alerts w hen on a runway, and ForeFlight detects another aircraft on a short final approach to that runway.

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AGL Runway Groundspeed Descent 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

So, you should practice maintaining the correct sight picture by aligning the runway threshold with a fixed reference point on the windscreen. You must use proper power management techniques to have a stable approach and landing. Before long, youll find no-flaps landings are just another day at the officeor in this case, the cockpit!

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Pilot Drag Descent Approach 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. 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.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Crosswind 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I reached into the cockpit instantly and pulled the throttle to idle. 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. It dawned on me what probably happened on my final approach.

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Runway Threshold Approach AGL 73