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• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 17-10
  Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Ground Lighting Illusions › How To Prevent Landing Errors Due to Optical Illusions

  along a straight path, such as a road or lights on moving trains, can be mistaken for runway and approach lights. Bright runway and approach lighting systems, especially where few lights illuminate the surrounding terrain, may create the illusion ... less distance to the runway. The pilot who does not recognize this illusion will often fly a higher approach. How To Prevent Landing Errors Due to Optical Illusions To prevent these illusions and their potentially hazardous consequences, pilots…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. G-11
  Glossary › Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum

  lungs can decompress. Lung damage is possible. F FA. See area forecast. FAA. Federal Aviation Administration. FAF. See final approach fix. False horizon. Inaccurate visual information for aligning the aircraft, caused by various natural and geometric formations that disorient ... Feeder facilities. Used by ATC to direct aircraft to intervening fixes between the en route structure and the initial approach fix. Final approach. Part of an instrument approach procedure in which alignment and descent for landing are accomplished. Final approach…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 2-14
  Chapter 2: Aeronautical Decision-Making › The Decision-Making Process › The 5 Ps Check

  last two decision points are just prior to descent into the terminal area and just prior to the final approach fix, or if VFR, just prior to entering the traffic pattern as preparations for landing commence. Most pilots execute approaches ... with the expectation that they will land out of the approach every time. A healthier approach requires the pilot to assume that changing conditions (the 5 Ps again) will cause the pilot to divert or execute the missed approach…

• Risk Management Handbookp. 7-2
  Chapter 7: Automation & Flight Path Management › Balancing Automated & Manual Flight

  move to lower levels of automation suitable to a changing environment. 12292 For example, a pilot may track an approach course adequately using manual control inputs. However, the pilot may also need to listen to and record the Automatic Terminal ... Information Service (ATIS), retrieve and load an instrument approach procedure, prepare for the instrument approach, and accomplish the appropriate checklists. These tasks will increase workload and divert pilot attention from monitoring and controlling the flight path. If using an autopilot…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 17-10
  Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Runway Width Illusion

  width relationships are comparable. [Figure 17-7] The pilot who does not 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 ... than it actually is. [Figure 17-7] The pilot who does not recognize this illusion will fly a lower approach. Downsloping runways and downsloping approach terrain can have the opposite effect. Featureless Terrain Illusion An absence of surrounding ground features…

• 14 CFR Part 61 — Certification: Pilots, Flight Instructors, and Ground InstructorsOpen
  14 CFR § 61.68 Category III pilot authorization requirements.

  significant failures encountered prior to and after reaching the alert height or decision height, as applicable; (iv) Missed approach procedures and techniques using computed or fixed attitude guidance displays and expected height loss as they relate to manual go-around ... approach, flare, and rollout; (B) Demonstration of expected visual references with weather at minimum conditions; (C) The expected sequence of visual cues during an approach in which visibility is at or above landing minima; and (D) Procedures and techniques…