Ask a first-time jet pilot halfway through initial training what they’re finding to be the most difficult approaches to fly, and you’ll likely get one of two answers: the single-engine hand-flown precision approach, or the circle to land. Both demand precise control inputs, careful energy management, and adherence to the manufacture’s scripted “profile” that prescribes aircraft configuration and speed throughout the maneuver.

In June 2019 a Boeing 737 executed a go-around from a two-mile final to Runway 27 at Bristol Airport (EGGD) in the United Kingdom.

The latest generation autopilots integrated into the flight decks of modern jets are automation wonders.

I often ask private pilot applicants at the beginning of their oral exam, “After you pass your checkride, you will be issued a certificate that says you are rated to fly single-engine land airplanes. Will you then be legal to act as PIC in any and all single-engine landplanes?”

The Citation Jet Pilots Safety and Education Foundation (CJP SEF) “Safe to Land” initiative (see “Owning the Go-Around Button,” May 2022 AOPA Pilot, Turbine Edition) is now live.

While all modern light jets use engines started via an electrically powered starter/generator, as turbine engines increase in size, the electrical starter is replaced by an air turbine starter.

As a U.S.-trained and -based pilot, every trip through Europe in a light jet presents me an opportunity for some abject humbling.