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Questions tagged [descent]
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Does this Hawaiian Airlines descent look routine?
I was on flight HA 30 from Kahului to Seattle on Dec 19 2021 (Dec 20 Zulu time).
FlightAware track log
FlightRadar24 track log
The descent looked anything but familiar.
As you can see it reached over 5,400 fpm at times.
I definitely felt it.
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How far from the runway should a small plane start its descent from 5000ft?
I don't fly, don't have a clue. But one of the main characters in my book DOES: it's a Cessna 152, just him at 14 stone and a couple of small bags, all conditions are perfect and he's flown from about 140 NM away. Would 5000ft be about the right…
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Out of sight planes during final approach
Does it ever happen that planes descending on a descent path (glide slope) block each other so that one (or more) plane is not visible from the tower (at the airport) or localizer? I want to know if that can cause technical issues. For example, how…
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