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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. 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…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. G-15
  Glossary › Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum

  lungs. A decrease of oxygen molecules at sufficient pressure can lead to hypoxic hypoxia. I IAF. See initial approach fix. IAP. See instrument approach procedures. IAS. See indicated airspeed. ICAO. See International Civil Aviation Organization. Ident. Air Traffic Control request ... controller’s scope. IFR. See instrument flight rules. ILS. See instrument landing system. ILS categories. Categories of instrument approach procedures allowed at airports equipped with the following types of instrument landing systems: ILS Category I: Provides for approach…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. G-22
  Glossary › Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Airplane Flight Manual

  combination pickup used to sample pitot pressure and static air pressure. Plan view. The overhead view of an approach procedure on an instrument approach chart. The plan view depicts the routes that guide the pilot from the en route segments ... Pneumatic. Operation by the use of compressed air. POH/AFM. See Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Airplane Flight Manual. Point-in-space approach. A type of helicopter instrument approach procedure to a missed approach point more than 2,600 feet from an associated…