Achieving a truly stabilized approach requires precise management of not only airspeed and descent rate but also the critical starting point (altitude and distance from the aiming point). External ...

The following is provided by the Flight Safety Foundation as part of its Approach and Landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) Risk Awareness Tools. More information is available at www.flightsafety.org.

In Part 1, we began our discussion of why pilots fail to go around from unstable approaches when their SOPs tell them to. More reasons why pilots fail to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for ...

NBAA’s recently released “Business Aviation Accident and Incident Analysis” for the first quarter highlights a need to focus ...

A stabilized approach is crucial for aviation safety, dramatically reducing pilot workload and preventing common accidents like Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) and runway overruns, and is ...