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Being sent away from an airfield - could I have asked more questions?
PPR means exactly that - you have to have prior permission. The procedure for the visiting aircraft to get that is generally described on landing cards or web pages. The airport itself probably has ...
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Being sent away from an airfield - could I have asked more questions?
This is one of the oddities of flying in the UK.
In every other part of the world that I've ever flown airports operate on the basis that they sort of expect aeroplanes to come and land there. In the ...
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what is the difference between RVR 200m and R 200m (LVO jeppesen landing minima)
There are different cases.
The RVR is provided by a State authority, State is mentioned in the top left corner and R is used instead of RVR.
For minimums provided ...
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Why do you land a fighter jet with AOA Units?
We may anticipate that most fighter planes are not staticly stable.
When an aircraft is staticly stable, airspeed and angle of attack are set by elevator trim. While on a glide path, the aircraft ...
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Why do you land a fighter jet with AOA Units?
While I don't disagree with the other answers, another reason is that AoA is more difficult to measure and is only useful for some parts of the flight (not useful in cruise, for example). So, most GA ...
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Why do you land a fighter jet with AOA Units?
Because AOA is the metric that governs all airfoil aerodynamics. And airline pilots also use AOA, indirectly. They determine (calculate) their landing speeds based on their configuration, (flap/slats ...
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Why do you land a fighter jet with AOA Units?
Angle of attack is the most convenient metric of the performance of the wing. One can safely assume the wing will for example always stall at the same AoA regardless of weight or speed.
Flying ...
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Where are some of the most challenging airfields in the UK?
This sort of question is more interesting when we don't narrow it down to one country but have one answer per country. In that spirit, this answer is for:
United Kingdom
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There are a number of ...
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