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Mastering Approach Lighting Systems: Key Insights for IFR Pilots

Flight Training Central

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.

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Fed Up With Fees

Plane and Pilot

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.

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How to Make a Perfect Soft Field Landing Every Time

Pilot Institute

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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Groundhog Day at Alton Bay

Photographic Logbook

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.

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What Is an Outflow Boundary Shown on a Surface Analysis Chart? 

Flying Magazine

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.

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Speak Like an #AvGeek: A Glossary For Enthusiasts

NYC Aviation

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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Adventures in the Mitten | Part 1, Up North to Mackinac

Photographic Logbook

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.