Missed approaches can come in numerous forms but the pilot must be prepared and manage the aircraft and flight path to ensure safe clearance. Pilot, safety expert, consultant, and aviation journalist ...

Jackson Hole's high-terrain environment demands strict adherence to precise altitude restrictions and flight paths, crucial for both the approach and any potential missed approach. Pilots must ...

The approach to Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (KCHO) provides multiple initial entry points (IAFs) but requires precise navigation due to step-down descents, specific turns along the final path, ...

We practice some maneuvers in the simulator because they are just too dangerous to do in the airplane. For these, our performance must be automatic, almost unthinking, reactions that get us out of ...

Everyone who flies needs to know about this. It's a standard procedure, but since it isn't used often, if you don't know about it, it could really frighten you. A client emailed about her first ...