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Delta CRJ-900 Accident In Toronto: Preliminary Report Published

One Mile at a Time

At the time of the accident, winds were at an angle of 270 degrees (the runway was at an angle of 230 degrees), at 28 knots, gusting to 35 knots. degrees Less than one second before touchdown, the plane had an indicated airspeed of 134 knots, a ground speed of 111 knots, a bank angle of 7.1

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From Twinjet to Glider: Varied Experience Comes in Handy in Unwanted Transition

Flying Magazine

We had a 40-knot headwind, but using a conservative 10:1 glide ratio at FL 300, I knew we could make Page Airfield. Page Airfield is an uncontrolled airport at 4,300 feet elevation, and the runway is just under 6,000 feet long. Seeing my position visually, I was now totally confident I could make the runway.

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Pilot, Know Thyself: Discovering What It Means to Be Painfully Average

Flying Magazine

I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8 minutes, covered 1,722 nm at an average ground speed of 511 knots, and burned 22,200 pounds of jet-A. minutes and achieved stable approach to Runway 19R at 1,710 feet. Mind you, it was to Runway 1L at Las Vegas, with a 3.4-degree

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Teaching International Student Pilots

Air Facts

For example, describing a Cuban eight maneuver would involve such writing as, enter the (in Farsi , R-L), Cuban eight (in English, L-R), maneuver no lower than (in Farsi , R-L), 10,000 AGL (in English, L-R), at a minimum of (in Farsi , R-L), 450 knots (in English, L-R). add 5 knots for winds at 10 knots gusting to 20 knots).

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NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on San Diego Crash

Flying Magazine

The aircraft was at an altitude of 8,000 ft msl and 270 knots ground speed at that time. ” The controller informed the pilot that he was 5 miles from NESTY and instructed them to cross NESTY at or above 3,800 ft MSL and cleared the pilot for the RNAV approach to runway 28R at KMYF. nautical miles from the runway.

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Terminal Radar: It’s the Weather Pilots Don’t See

Flying Magazine

One of the first things youll notice about TDWRs is that they are located off the airport about 7 miles from the center of its runway complex. Instead, the TDWR is located in a place that has good visibility to the approach and departure corridors and the runway environment.

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Check Ride Jitters

Plane and Pilot

I felt knots forming in my stomach. The 152 rocked and bounced in the air currents as we approached the runway. The visibility had dropped to almost zero as we crossed the threshold. I examined the topped fuel tanks one more time and untied the ropes on the Cessna 152. I noticed that the wind was picking up. Am I imagining it?