Remove Airlines Remove VFR On Top Remove Weather
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Taking Care of the Human Element

Plane and Pilot

I experienced dense morning fog, afternoon thunderstorms, and made a timely weather divert with the help of incredibly helpful air traffic controllers. Like the airlines, extra crewmembers are added for long endurance flights. And how about cold-weather operations? They do this kind of long-distance flying day in and day out.

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Training for Fairytales

AV Web

Seattle Center, N13DZ, request climb to VFR-on-Top. They say again, N13DZ, requesting climb to VFR-on-Top. ERIDS is basically the Google for controllers who need to find strange airline callsigns, aircraft types, fixes, charts, airspace, and thank God, ATC procedures. The pilot requests VFR-on-Top.