Fear of Landing
JUNE 14, 2024
Photograph by Robert Frola (GFDL) via Wikimedia Commons Murwillumbah Airfield has a 19/01 grass strip which the report gives as 1,045 metres (3,428 feet), however, it is commonly listed as 800 metres as it has a displaced threshold of 245 metres on runway 19, because of industrial buildings and trees at the northern end.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 26, 2024
On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power. The sudden loss of lift can cause the wheels to dig into the ground. After all, pilots become used to moving the power to idle when crossing the runway threshold.
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Pilot Institute
MAY 4, 2024
If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. The aiming point at an actual short field should be as close to the threshold as is safe. Reducing lift puts more weight on the wheels. If you are below 5 knots of your target threshold speed, execute a go-around.
Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure
MAY 20, 2024
Once we reached near the threshold, we waited for this China Eastern A330 to land before we depart. We lifted off in slightly bumpy conditions. The Comac ARJ-21 does look like a DC-9. Boeing has a maintainance hanger at this airport. At this point, we started rolling down the runway. There were occasional bumps along the way.
Air Facts
AUGUST 12, 2024
Since the Beech 18 is a tailwheel airplane, this required the pilot to bend over, lift up the elevator, and inspect the trim tab actuator rods exiting from the underside of the elevator. With that as justification, I neglected to lift the elevator and continued on my way around the airplane. It would be an omission I would soon regret.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 11, 2024
This meant that there would be no getting into Sodus unless the ceiling lifted. We broke out right at the missed approach point which is much too high and close to the runway threshold to make a normal landing. The ceiling lifted to 900 feet and even began to break up over Rochester. Still IFR, but barely.
Air Facts
AUGUST 26, 2024
For example, a Cessna 150 pilot lost control of the airplane after touchdown and probably totaled the airplane: “The pilot reported that, during the landing roll, a gust of wind lifted the right wing of the airplane. The pilot advanced the throttle and the airplane lifted off the runway surface again.
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