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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Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

The student turned early onto the base leg of the airport traffic pattern, then turned onto final approach, resulting in the airplane being high and fast. The pilot was distracted, and flew too low, striking several approach lights short of the runway threshold.

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Density Altitude Airplanes Runway Pilot 54

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. This can make the aircraft feel like its climbing rather than descending. Pre-Landing Checklist 1.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

Back in the early days of jet airliners, pilots long experienced in more forgiving two- and four-engine, piston-powered prop planes found themselves running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas on the final approach to landing. Several of these unstabilized approaches resulted in major aircraft damage or worse. Simple as that.

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Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

At about one mile from the final approach fix, I put the Cessna into a high-speed dive towards the minimum descent altitude of 400 feet AGL. We were about 1/2 mile from the threshold. It would not be easy getting perfectly aligned with the runway threshold by looking through the tiny hole in the ice.

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VOR Weather Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Using the VASI is crucial as it gives you safe obstruction clearance within 10 degrees of either side of the runway centerline and around four nautical miles from the runway threshold. nautical miles from the runway threshold. VASI provides a more extensive range of obstacle clearance at 4 nautical miles from the runway threshold.

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Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

With our diminished flight controllability and heavy ice load, we received vectors to swing out over Long Island Sound and turn carefully to approach straight in from the south on the north/south runway. They had moved to their strategic waiting position close to the landing runway threshold.

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Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 17, 2025

We waited for a while near the threshold to allow a few aircraft ahead of us to take off. Whenever you hear the loud thud during the descent (around 3,000 feet or so) especially if you are sitting in the middle or front of the aircraft, that is the sound of the landing gear coming out and locked which means the aircraft is on final approach.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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. This allows you to configure appropriately and ensures a stabilized approach. Leading you to become too high and too fast on the approach.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Final Approach 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

The image at the beginning of this section is an example of an RNAV approach plate for Monterey Regional, California. The minima table lists the DA and Height Above Threshold for each type of RNAV approach. Lets look at each type of approach and see how it works. on the final approach.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

At this point, we reached the threshold of the runway. We were on final approach into runway 06L. Look at how lovely the weather was that morning. Passing by Air France's corperate office. Air France Concorde on display. An Easyjet A321ceo aircraft was undergoing the deicing procedure. Making our turn into the active runway.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. Approach Lighting System (ALS) The ALS helps the pilot transition from instrument flying to visual flying. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area.

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Knot Approach Distance Measuring Equipment Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At one point, we were watching an RV on final approach when a green and white Citabria swooped into view from above the restaurant in a steep, descending turn and appeared to cut off the RV. Alton Bay's floating bandstand about 100 feet south of the runway threshold. He certainly had a point. Such a cool airplane!

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Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Key Takeaways Start by setting up your approach correctly to ensure you arrive at the threshold perfectly every time. Perfect the approach phase by managing the aircraft’s energy and using references to improve positioning throughout the pattern. The easiest way to achieve this is by flying a stabilized approach.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

For most light aircraft, you should aim for a descent rate of 500 feet per minute on the final approach. Stabilized Approach Ideally, the goal should be to achieve a stabilized condition with a constant rate of descent. The Cessna 172, known for its forgiving nature, can encounter bounced landings if the pilot is not careful.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

Since we lost our LPV approaches due to obstructions along the final approach course, the downgraded LNAV minimum descent altitude for the approach to runway 28 was 558 feet above the ground. This was not a good setup to manage an approach down to minimums.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

Photo: EPS1) After 10 minutes of taxi, we were near the threshold of the runway. At the threshold, we were cleared to depart. The approach and landing in Taipei was a smooth affair. On final approach We touched down 13 minutes late. Passing by one of JAL's aircraft in the special livery. We started descending.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Turning left, heading towards the threshold. At this point, we were on final approach. Window view photos (Take Off to Landing) The fuel truck had finishing refueling our aircraft. Pushing back in progress. Passing by a couple of ANA aircraft. We started accelerating. What a beautiful day for flying! Reverse thrust was deployed.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 23, 2025

We entered the threshold and waited for our clearance to take off. We were on final approach into Taipei Taoyuan Airport. Lavatory I used the lavatory at the one located between the premium economy and business class cabins. Window view photos (Take off to landing) It was raining at this point. We were out of the rainy clouds.

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Weather Cabin Crew Turbulence Runway 59

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

This was my flight's final assigned gate. I spotted another green stripes livery on this A330-900neo on final approach to this airport. Finally we reached the threshold and we were on our way. After this Lufthansa's A321CEO pushed back, my aircraft arrived at this gate not long after. Goodbye Frankfurt!

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

With the landing gear down but without the use of the wing leading-edge slats and trailing-edge flaps, there was little the crew could do to control the stricken aircraft’s approach speed, other than through variable engine power settings. Touchdown At 16:00 the airplane touched down on the runway threshold to the left of the centerline.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airlines Airline 297

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. Yet all indications are he succumbed to a simple stall on final approach. Sixty-six percent of the downwind-to-base stalls and a full 80 percent of base-to-final stalls resulted in death.

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

Photograph by Robert Frola (GFDL) via Wikimedia Commons Murwillumbah Airfield has a 19/01 grass strip which the report gives as 1,045 metres (3,428 feet), however, it is commonly listed as 800 metres as it has a displaced threshold of 245 metres on runway 19, because of industrial buildings and trees at the northern end.

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Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Rolling out on final approach, I was surprised to see another airplane stopped right at the runway threshold. Usually, Alton Bay volunteers hold departure traffic significantly farther back from the threshold when other aircraft are about to land. Should that guy be so close to the threshold?" Joe asked.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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. As I approached the center of the river and cliff, suddenly I was below the runway, looking up at the cliff. It dawned on me what probably happened on my final approach.

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 3, 2024

As we did so, I was annoyed by an Arrow III that announced a straight in final approach from a few miles out that forced me and Alyssa to extend our downwind to accommodate them. It was a typical turbulent, gusty, unpredictable Mackinac Island arrival.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 12, 2024

What if the airplane pitched over on final approach? But just as I crossed the runway threshold at 50 feet, the genie leaped from its bottle and the nose once again pitched over violently. It was like an old and friendly family dog who suddenly bites its owner for no obvious reason.

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NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

Go Around – An aborted landing by an aircraft that is on final approach. A pair of synchronized flashing lights, located laterally on each corner of the runway approach threshold, providing rapid and positive identification of the approach end of a runway. REIL – Runway End Identifier Lights.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) differentiates an accident from an incident by imposing a threshold of aircraft damage set at $1 million. During the landing, following an excessive pitch-up movement by the aircraft, its aft fuselage contacted the runway approximately 326 meters (1,070ft) beyond the runway threshold.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 28, 2024

Upon contacting Denver Approach Control, we were told that the only runway available for our landing in the west complex was Runway 34 Left, which is 16,000 feet long, and the longest paved runway in the entire country. From the threshold to taxiway D5 gave me a little over 5,000 feet to land and stop.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Before I know it, we were on our final approach. We reached the threshold of runway 27. We were on final approach into New Delhi. Just as I was settled in, the captain announced to all of us that the flight had begun its descent and requested the crew to prepare for landing. Let's check what movies are there.

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