Flight Training Central
MARCH 31, 2025
Approach light systems are a configuration of signal lights starting at the landing threshold and extending into the approach area, at a distance of 2,400 to 3,000 feet for precision instrument runways, and 1,400 to 1,500 feet for non-precision instrument runways.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 26, 2024
Check NOTAMs Before departure, check the Notices to Air Missions (NOTAM) publication. You might find a NOTAM about your destination’s surface conditions. Don’t depend on NOTAMs to provide up-to-date information on soft field conditions. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power.
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Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
A NOTAM closing Alton Bay was still active until 7:00 am that morning. As expected, the NOTAM closing the ice runway did expire and no new notification replaced it. Alton Bay's floating bandstand about 100 feet south of the runway threshold. "Wakey-Wakey, Eggs and Bakey" It almost did not happen. He certainly had a point.
Flying Magazine
MAY 1, 2024
READ MORE: How Do You Check NOTAMs? Often outflow boundaries or gust fronts produce low reflectivity returns that fall below the threshold used to filter out other clutter not associated with actual areas of precipitation. Evaporation of some of the rain cools the downdraft, making it even more dense compared to the surrounding air.
Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
NOTAMs, apparently, cannot be used legally to advise of fees. That said, slipping the weight threshold down would be an easy move for any airport administrationand merits monitoring. Many airports dont assess landing fees for anything less than 6,000 pounds. For reference, a de Havilland Beaver grosses out at 5,100 pounds.
Photographic Logbook
AUGUST 3, 2024
Per the chart, the field generally has fuel available and, while there was no NOTAM about fuel being unavailable that day, I could not find a fuel price in ForeFlight. I felt another flash of irritation when the Arrow stopped on the runway and dawdled for a while as we rapidly closed the distance with the runway threshold on short final.
NYC Aviation
JUNE 17, 2020
A continuous broadcast of weather, active runways, and other important information like NOTAMs (see below). NOTAM – NOTice to AirMen. A pair of synchronized flashing lights, located laterally on each corner of the runway approach threshold, providing rapid and positive identification of the approach end of a runway.
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