Flight Instructor for Airplane Category › XII. Emergency Operations › Task G. Approach and Landing with an Inoperative Engine (Simulated)(AMEL, AMES)

AI.XII.G.S7

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Touch down on the first one-third of available runway/landing surface, with no drift, and the airplane’s longitudinal axis aligned with and over the runway center or landing path.

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Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 14-28
Chapter 14: Airport Operations › En Route › Vortex Avoidance Procedures
Figure 14-47A] • Landing behind a larger aircraft on a parallel runway closer than 2,500 feet—consider the possibility of drift and stay at or above the larger aircraft’s final approach flight path and note its touchdown ... point. [Figure 14-47B] • Landing behind a larger aircraft on crossing runway— cross above the larger aircraft’s flight path. • Landing behind a departing aircraft on the same runway—land prior to the departing aircraft’s rotating point. • Landing…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 17-12
Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Ground Lighting Illusions › How To Prevent Landing Errors Due to Optical Illusions
horizon. Various surface features and atmospheric conditions encountered in landing can create illusions of being on the wrong approach path. Landing errors due to these illusions can be prevented by anticipating them during approaches, inspecting unfamiliar airports before landing, using…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 5-9
Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › Wingtip Vortices › Avoiding Wake Turbulence
highest to produce the lift necessary to land or take off. To minimize the chances of flying through an aircraft’s wake turbulence: • Avoid flying through another aircraft’s flight path. • Rotate prior to the point at which the preceding ... altitude within 1,000 feet. [Figure 5-13] • Approach the runway above a preceding aircraft’s path when landing behind another aircraft and touch down after the point at which the other aircraft wheels contacted the runway. [Figure…
Airplane Flying Handbook p. 9-4
Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Final Approach › Stabilized Approach Concept
towards a predetermined point on the landing runway. It is based on the pilot’s judgment of certain visual clues and depends on maintaining a constant final descent airspeed and configuration. An airplane descending on final approach at a constant ... straight line towards a spot on the ground ahead, commonly called the aiming point. If the airplane maintains a constant glide path without a round out for landing, it will strike the ground at the aiming point. [Figure…
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge p. 17-10
Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Runway Width Illusion
recognize this illusion will fly a lower approach, with the risk of striking objects along the approach path or landing short. A wider-thanusual runway can have the opposite effect with the risk of the pilot leveling out the aircraft…
Airplane Flying Handbook p. 9-2
Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Normal Approach and Landing
Approach and Landing Normal approach and landing procedures are used when the engine power is available, the wind is light or the final approach is made directly into the wind, the final approach path has no obstacles, and the landing…