Final Approach Threshold Weather 
Aerotime
MARCH 31, 2025
A United Airlines Boeing 737 had a lucky escape after it struck a kite on its final approach to Washington-Reagan Airport (DCA) in the US capital. According to eyewitness reports, the kite struck the plane between its fuselage and an engine during the aircrafts final stage of flight.
iPad Pilot News
MARCH 11, 2025
These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. The destination weather frequency callout provides the destination airport weather frequency (ATIS, AWOS, or ASOS). Sink Rate – Alerts as follows: When above 2,500 ft. per minute.
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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.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Approach Minimums When youre flying in bad weather and cant see much, you can rely on your trusty instruments to guide you. 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.
Pilot Institute
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Weather It’s a good idea to brief any weather that could make your landing more challenging. 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. We calculate our approach speed using 1.3
Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
Unfortunately, opportunities to get there can be few and often come down to the whimsy of weather. Weather conditions were different this time around, but the critical difference was that The Bear was flying right seat with me. I awoke that morning at 5:00 am and checked weather, squinting at ForeFlight on my phone in the dark.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 11, 2024
However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. Still the better part of an hour away from home, weather conditions were concerning.
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