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Fed Up With Fees

Plane and Pilot

That said, slipping the weight threshold down would be an easy move for any airport administrationand merits monitoring. The PlanePass equipment installed on-field does more than track transponders. Many airports dont assess landing fees for anything less than 6,000 pounds. So, for now, most of us are excluded from these fees.

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White-Knuckle Affair

Plane and Pilot

Without a transponder, we were hiding in plain sight, all other aircraft oblivious to our presence, a sobering fact that became all too apparent when we noticed the KC-135 passing 3 miles in front of us as we circled counterclockwise around the town.

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ILS Explained (With Examples)

Pilot Institute

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area. This is a button on the transponder (or Garmin) near where you input your squawk code. Glideslope The glideslope (GS) provides us with vertical guidance.

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Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 2, Air & Space

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For context, this amount of noise is between the 110 dB characteristic of front rows at rock concerts and 130 dB generally accepted as the threshold of pain. Without a transponder, this aircraft would have been barred from today's Washington DC airspace. But at least the pilots got to sit inside with the passengers. Cockpit of a DC-7.

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Incidents and accidents: AeroTime’s commercial airline safety roundup of 2024  

Aerotime

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) differentiates an accident from an incident by imposing a threshold of aircraft damage set at $1 million. During the landing, following an excessive pitch-up movement by the aircraft, its aft fuselage contacted the runway approximately 326 meters (1,070ft) beyond the runway threshold.

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