Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. This central core extends up to around 10,000 feet MSL, the airspace’s ceiling. However, the ceiling for each shelf is the same as the core. Although Class B airspace has a typical ceiling of 10,000 feet MSL, exceptions exist.

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Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 52

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport is open to general aviation from 08:00 to 17:00. Weather reports from the Naval Auxiliary Landing Field on the island warned of a low cloud ceiling, overcast at 700-800 feet. When I saw the altimeter start to climb I raised the landing gear and let out the breath I’d apparently been holding.

Runway 52

Runway Altimeter Pilot Lift 52

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

However, the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 paved the way for its return, and production resumed in 1996. This legislation helped rejuvenate the general aviation market, and the Cessna 172 once again became a staple in flight schools and private ownership.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” The average age of the current general aviation fleet is somewhere between 35 and 50 years. It is one thing to consider breaking a 400-foot ceiling when everything in the cockpit is working.

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Cockpit Pilot Transponder General Aviation 82

Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Cherokee Four Eight One, Allentown Approach, altimeter 30.48, remain at or above 3,500 feet." A multilayered example of cluelessness, the episode was not a shining moment for general aviation. Having driven this highway a few times, I always find it hard not to imagine the incredible weight pressing down on the tunnel's ceiling.

Runway 52

Runway Approach Airplanes Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

It will be displayed here as opposed to being suspended from the glass ceiling of the nearby Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall as it has since 1976. However, Earhart encountered bad weather, including heavy icing and fog, and suffered mechanical failures in the form of a failed altimeter, a fuel leak, and a damaged exhaust manifold.

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Airplanes Pilot Ceiling Altimeter 78