The three-degree path between MDA and the
landing threshold is clear.
The report added: "The crew did not identify the beginning of the runway and taxied forward to the
landing threshold before beginning their take-off.
While at the low key position, abeam the
landing threshold and 1200 feet agl, the pilot receiving instruction smelled fuel.
Also, the
landing threshold of Douglas-Charles Airport's 5, 761ft (1, 756m) runway 09--the predominant landing runway--is displaced by 1, 100ft (30.
At night and during IMC, airfields turn on runway approach lights to help pilots visually acquire the landing environment before the aircraft ever reaches the runway's
landing threshold.
The long-standing tradition of "Airman Timmy and Lance Corporal Jimmy" in the pilot's headset giving course corrections and trend information will cross
landing threshold one last time in the next decade.
While directing operations as tower controller, an F-16 (Gator 01) with limited fuel was approximately one-half mile from
landing threshold, he spotted a coyote on the runway, approximately 3,000 ft from
landing threshold.
It's 1000 feet from the
landing threshold. That's always true.
An instrument approach glidepath is designed to take the airplane to a touchdown zone 1000 feet or one-third of the total runway length from the
landing threshold, whichever is less.
The gate is at least a mile outside the final approach fix on the final approach course and can be no closer than five miles from the
landing threshold. Per Handbook Table 5-9-1, if you will intercept the localizer less than two miles from the approach gate, the maximum interception angle is 20 degrees.
The accident site was about one mile south the Run-way 31
landing threshold, and 0.4 miles west of the runway's extended centerline.