There are words no one wants to hear in the cockpit, especially during an approach in instrument conditions. Those include certain two-word phrases beginning in Oh and ending with an expletive of some ...

Missed approaches are designed to transition aircraft safely from the final approach segment to en route altitude using a standard 200 ft/nm climb gradient, with obstacle clearance predicated on ...

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 ...

Instrument approaches into mountainous airports are exceptionally treacherous due to confined terrain, steep descent profiles, and critically limited room for error, making even minor deviations ...