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I Am UNSAFE Checklist—Lessons Learned on a Fateful Night

Air Facts

I assessed my personal condition and noted I was tired, but a short flight and get-home-it-is grabbed me (mistake #3). The Flight Plan I filed an IFR flight plan, KAZO-GIJ-OXI-MAPPS-EON-JOT-ILS2L-KDPA, then VFR to my homebase, 06C. As I crossed the runway threshold, it was solid IMC and I had to go missed.

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Teaching International Student Pilots

Air Facts

He then returned to Vance to conduct landings from the T-38 overhead pattern on our westernmost runway (17R); thats when the wheels came off. Approximately half way down the runway, you execute a level, 60-degree bank, 180 o turn while reducing power and lowering the speed-brakes to arrive on the inside downwind.

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Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights

iPad Pilot News

These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. RUNWAY ALERTS Runways – Alerts when nearing or entering a runway. An audible alert plays the message Traffic on Runway and specifies the runway number and airport.

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Avionics and cockpit automation

Professional Pilot

For example, a traditional airspeed indicator shows only real-time changes, while a glass cockpits trend indicator calculates exactly where the airspeed will be over a fixed unit of time and can trigger alerts or automated corrections if thresholds are breached. The Apex is offered on the Pilatus PC-12 NG.

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My Birthday Flight With EVA Air's Boeing 787-10

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

This aircraft pushed back later than it should and that cause a delay to our flight's planned departure. Photo: EPS1) After 10 minutes of taxi, we were near the threshold of the runway. At the threshold, we were cleared to depart. Passing by one of JAL's aircraft in the special livery.

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Where There’s Smoke…

Plane and Pilot

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. More flaps.

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Fed Up With Fees

Plane and Pilot

That said, slipping the weight threshold down would be an easy move for any airport administrationand merits monitoring. A photo snapped of your airplane turning off the runway would have you caught red-handed. Lord knows I dont look up an airports website when Im planning a cross-country to see its fee structure.

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