The author uses a challenging flight experience with low visibility to illustrate the importance of a "stabilized approach" in aviation. This "stabilized approach" is then applied as a metaphor 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, characterized by maintaining a constant-angle glidepath to a predetermined point on the runway with consistent airspeed and aircraft configuration ...

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 ...

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.

The pilots flying a Learjet 35A (similar to this one) to Teterboro on a gusty day didn’t properly brief nor fly the circle-to-land approach and crashed turning toward Runway 1, according to the NTSB. ...