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Unstable approaches

Professional Pilot

According to the GOM, either pilot could call for a go-around, yet neither did despite the published stabilized approach criteria being violated. This is when a pilot has a knowledge of the rules but makes a conscious and deliberate decision to violate them. On May 5, 2021, a Gulfstream G150 overran the runway at 3J1 (Ridgeland SC).

Approach 105
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Alton Bay's "Excellent Water"

Photographic Logbook

Today would be his first landing on the ice as pilot in command. Since 2019, pilots in command have been presented with poker chips -- what the Alton Bay crew fittingly call "ice chips" -- commemorating landing at Alton Bay. More vintage cred: a V-tailed Beechcraft Bonanza! Oh, because of the purple.

Runway 68