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ForeFlight adds wake turbulence alerts

iPad Pilot News

ForeFlight adds wake turbulence alerts iPad Pilot News Datalink weather stole the show when portable ADS-B technology debuted over a decade ago, providing pilots with free in-flight weather imagery in mobile apps like ForeFlight. The visual depiction of the wake provides an aid to situational awareness when approaching wake turbulence.

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NTSB: Pilot Was Flying Too Low Before Hitting Smokestack in Idaho

Flying Magazine

The accident happened as the pilot was attempting to fly the RNAV 20 approach, which takes the aircraft directly over the potato processing plant with numerous vent stacks constantly in operation. The standard for airspeed after passing the final approach fix was 120 kias indicated, according to the Flight Maneuvers Description Manual (FMDM).

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What was one of the scariest moments in your life?

Air Facts

But, with a frontal system approaching, the conditions were expected to worsen over the hours subsequent to our passing through, including the chance for moderate to severe turbulence. At first it was just gradually, then more decidedly, evolving into moderate turbulence. But the turbulence would continue to worsen.

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Stabilized Approaches

Plane and Pilot

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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My Near Death Experience

Air Facts

” As I broke out of the clouds on the final approach course, I flew about 1.5 The approach end of runway 24 came into view, followed by the rest of the airport as we entered the left downwind to runway 6. Any thought that this could be the last and “finalapproach I’d ever fly never entered my mind.

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"Monadnock is our Beacon"

Photographic Logbook

Just as I had this thought, a 20+ knot wind aloft made turbulent by the terrain to the north began to batter all three airplanes. Lined up on final approach for runway 34 at Jaffrey. One by one, the three of us bumped through the turbulent air downwind of the local mountain. said the Champ pilot, clearly impressed. (By

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Keeping One Step Ahead of ATC when flying IFR

Flight Training Central

Now you can easily identify thunderstorms, icing or turbulence threats hundreds of miles away and request to modify your route accordingly. I used this trick when flying into Nashville recently and was able to determine they were using the ILS or RNAV Runway 20L approach and using runway 20C for departures.