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

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

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

This aircraft pushed back later than it should and that cause a delay to our flight's planned departure. Our aircraft needed some time to prepare for the return flight and we only boarded the aircraft about 25 minutes before our schedule departure time. At the threshold, we were cleared to depart. We started descending.

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Weather Cabin Crew Threshold Turbulence 59

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I logged the information of my flight from Lawson Army Airfield (KLSF) at Fort Benning, Georgia, where I was stationed, to Newnan-Coweta County Airport (KCCO), then to Alexander City, Alabama (KALX), and back to Lawson. Filing a flight plan was not necessary, but I logged it on the clubhouse flight board.

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Runway Threshold Approach AGL 77

Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

Taking this development in stride, I began planning for the day’s activities by checking the weather and filing a VFR flight plan for my itinerary. What if the airplane pitched over on final approach? This meant a single pilot operation for four legs, and its attendant increase in work load for me, the captain.

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Airplanes Lift Runway Tail 97