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Descent Planning: Strategies for Safe and Smooth Arrivals

Flight Training Central

Descent planning is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of managing your flight. And if not planned properly, a poorly executed descent can present challenges and unnecessary risks when transitioning to an approach or the traffic pattern.

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Quiz: Flight Planning with Sporty’s E6B

Flight Training Central

It will assist with flight planning questions and you can bring your electronic E6B into the testing center to use during the actual test. The electronic E6B is equally useful when in the airplane, to help determine actual winds aloft, true airspeed, fuel burn, and descent planning. knots Correct! knots Correct!

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

Presumably, the pilot was flying on an instrument flight plan, as the flight maintained a cruise altitude of 7,000 feet (and ADS-B groundspeed of 125 to 130 knots) until about 12:53 p.m. local time, roughly three hours into the flight. Never exceed speed (Vne) for the V-35 is 192 knots. This all unraveled quickly.

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

Presumably, the pilot was flying on an instrument flight plan, as the flight maintained a cruise altitude of 7,000 feet (and ADS-B groundspeed of 125 to 130 knots) until about 12:53 pm local time, roughly three hours into the flight. Never exceed speed (Vne) for the V-35 is 192 knots. This all unraveled quickly.

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My Near Death Experience

Air Facts

A pit stop at North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (KCRE) was planned, and after a weather briefing, I filed an IFR flight plan. At the current groundspeed, I believed it shouldn’t be of much concern unless the cell began producing lightning. I requested a descent from 6,000’ down to 4,000’ and was denied due to traffic.

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Riding the Mountain Waves

Plane and Pilot

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 continued our descent into Great Falls, leaving “the wave” behind and above. Our return flight was by a safer, much smoother route. Our return flight was by a safer, much smoother route.

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A fun fuel run

Air Facts

My Sonex cruises about 130 mph at this power setting, but headed southeast into the wind I am losing an easy 15 mph on my groundspeed. Descent and landing is smooth and calm this evening, and I make a wheel landing for the fun of it. My groundspeed is 150 mph and ahead of me the sunlight streams in Jacob’s Ladder’s from the clouds.