During a missed approach, prioritize "Aviate" by ensuring the aircraft is fully configured, trimmed, and stable in a climb before addressing navigation or communication, as rushing control can lead to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In August 2021, I participated in an inspection flight of a new approach procedure at one of the most challenging airports to land at in the U.S., Colorado’s Eagle County (KEGE) with Hughes Aerospace ...

Investigators have determined that the undercarriage of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 was deployed, but then retracted, before the aircraft suffered a gear-up accident at Keflavik airport. Icelandic authority ...

The National Transportation Safety Board cited the crew's failure to properly execute the published instrument approach procedure and use all navigational aids in the Oct. 24, 2004 crash of a Beech ...