The part of an aircraft's flight in which it descends directly towards a runway for landing.
his international flight is on final approach into Detroit
Example sentencesExamples
- Your airplane ought to be configured to land with a steady sink rate at something near your final approach speed.
- The final approach was executed at a much higher speed than normal.
- Using a sophisticated new computer system, Ellis could nearly instantly approve a flight path and coordinate with the tower controllers responsible for the plane's final approach.
- The airplane was observed on a three-mile final approach when it entered a left bank.
- Don't make that turn to final approach too steep or you might lose the airflow over the high wing.
- I sit at my desk now, looking out at puffy clouds being dodged by the planes swinging around on final approach to Heathrow.
- The plane continued to circle up to the northeast and then banked back to the south to make its final approach.
- I turned as the aircraft passed me, heading in the opposite direction on its final approach.
- If that storm hit the aircraft when it was on final approach, there is a likelihood the pilots would not have had time to recover.
- I'm sure it was a sight to see this lumbering, huge airplane banking to final approach at 400 feet above the ground.