Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

Approaching their destination, the pilot asked Memphis Center ATC for an airport weather report. Ran into weather. The pilot requested weather reports for Paragould (KPGR) and Jonesboro (KJBR) airports. There was VFR weather to the west, so they turned right, climbed up to 4,000 feet, and headed west.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 5, 2024

It was late morning, I was hungry, the weather was perfect for flying, and I had no additional plans for the day. Dramatic Ceiling Date Aircraft Route of Flight Time (hrs) Total (hrs) 05 Jul 2024 N21481 SDC (Sodus, NY) - LKP (Lake Placid, NY) - SDC 3.2 Descending over Sodus Bay on approach to runway 10 at the Williamson Sodus Airport.

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Clearance Ceiling Weather Runway 98

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

From entry and weather requirements to interacting with ATC, we have you covered. 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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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

So there I am circling in clear weather with a frown on my face. The weather was good with scattered cumulus floating around. About 30 miles out I called Approach Control, told ’em I was VFR and squawking 0600. I would tune in the radio now and then to see if the weather was doing what it was supposed to do.

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AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

The lights change color to indicate weather conditions based on METAR reports via internet. Either way, METAR is a format for reporting weather observations. ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System) or older AWOS (Automated Weather Observing System) stations automatically collect the data used in METARs. Take your pick.

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 13, 2023

While I anticipated an IFR departure that morning, I wanted to see ceiling and visibility of at least 300 feet and a mile to avoid smacking into mountainous terrain around Pickens County Airport during take-off. Before too long, the visibility rose to unrestricted while the ceiling remained around 300 feet.

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Approach Ceiling Runway Clearance 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

IFR exists when the ceiling is less than 1,000 feet above the ground and/or the visibility is less than three statute miles. Look at your surrounding weather. If these conditions don’t exist in your area, look at a weather depiction chart and find the closest IFR conditions. If it is IFR in your area, take advantage of it.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

After refuelling, checking weather, filing my VFR flight plan using ForeFlight, coffee and a washroom break, I launched to my next destination, Greensboro. Flying back was bit more challenging from a weather perspective. Andy and I began our flight planning and weather reviews on Wednesday night.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For many, the thought of getting in instrument rating gives thoughts to flying an approach to minimums in hard IFR conditions after never seeing the ground since shortly after takeoff. Perhaps those thoughts include dealing with inclement weather, or even icing conditions. You can file and operate “IFR” even on good weather days.

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Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

Danger lurks in circling approaches Air Facts Journal the circling approach maneuver is designed as a last resort, non-precision approach. The very first question that should pop up into our head during a circling approach is “Why are we circling in the first place”? The n ext one is “What are our other options?”

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Approach AGL Descent Runway 70

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Scenario 3: VFR into IFR If you read the accident reports the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) compiles, you will notice a lot are attributed in part to the pilot’s decision to continue VFR into deteriorating weather. In the ATD the scenario begins by having the pilot check the weather before takeoff. What could go wrong?

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Crosswind Airplanes VOR Runway 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

I cursed my decision to depart in developing low weather, but the only choice now was to press on through the crud, dodging cellular towers lining the highway. The conditions were a mile of visibility and about 500 feet of ragged ceiling, barely enough to maintain orientation by landmarks passing below. We were out of options.

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

After almost 3h55 Aberdeen made us contact Approach and we got a RNP 31 approach onto Wick (EGPC) from over the sea. So we continued towards Reykjavik in basically shitty weather at the very economic fuel setting of 47% power as calculated. So perfect weather. We stayed low mainly due to too much wind at altitude.

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Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I checked the weather by phone and was assured it would be great CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) with 2-3-knot winds from 090 degrees. As I approached the river, the plane started to settle faster than it had. As I approached the center of the river and cliff, suddenly I was below the runway, looking up at the cliff.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

I cursed my decision to depart in developing low weather, but the only choice now was to press on through the crud, dodging cellular towers lining the highway. The conditions were a mile of visibility and about 500 feet of ragged ceiling, barely enough to maintain orientation by landmarks passing below. We were out of options.

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Weather Ceiling Approach Clearance 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. Moments after climbing through the ceiling over Beverly, MA.

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Approach Ceiling Weather Runway 52

Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I've been going through weather updates and long range forecasts for the last two weeks along with reviewing approaches and alternates for our flight. For now we are on hold until the weather opens up a bit to allow a safe departure and a better chance at returning if needed. Saturday 9.16 Sunday 9.17 Thursday 9.21

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

This system includes modes for: roll pitch heading vertical speed altitude hold approach These modes allow for a steady rate of descent, ascent, and consistent speed and altitude ranges. Several incidents involving the Cessna 172 have been documented, typically attributed to pilot error, adverse weather conditions, or mechanical issues.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

No matter what you call it, the procedure is the same: tune up the frequency published in the chart supplement, approach plate or app, and press the push-to-talk button. This works well if the weather is good and you don’t need an IFR clearance to take off and depart the pattern. Pro tip: Prepare your avionics on the ground.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Maybe it’s the Georgia flying weather, or maybe it’s the ever-increasing emphasis on “old” pilot instead of “bold” pilot, but it seems that flight planning these days is a lot more about if and when than about route and altitude. The 1,000-foot en route ceiling means that approach minimums never come into question.

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Airplanes Weather Ceiling Turbulence 89

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 28, 2024

This is the area of Rossio Santa Maria Maior The view is absolutely stunning especially in good weather. Although the weather looks good, it was also another windy day. The weather in London was gloomy as always and we did encounter some light ones but it wasn't as bad as my previous flight. Goodbye Lisbon, until next time!

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 14, 2024

Key Takeaways The F-4 Phantom II was designed as a multi-role fighter with a modular approach, enabling it to perform various combat missions and setting new standards in fighter aircraft design. Navy’s request for a multi-role fighter capable of all-weather operations. The aircraft could achieve a maximum speed of Mach 2.23

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Payload Approach Jet Ceiling 52

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

While accidents might result from dangerous weather, poor fuel management, or hastily overlooked maintenance issues, an underlying root cause may be a pilot falling prey to these situations due to a laser focus on completing the mission in spite of circumstances that make flying unwise.

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Ceiling Approach Pilot Weather 52

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

This year, a promising weather forecast featuring high freezing levels (expected to be 9,000+ feet) led to a decision to fly myself. The day before departure, satisfied that days of consistent weather forecasts reasonably assured a successful flight, I cancelled the rental car reservation. Famous last words.) Foolish mortal.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

As our trip to Sleepy Hollow neared, forecasts for IFR weather inspired a shuffling of airplanes and pilots so that our seven adventurers were distributed among three IFR-capable airplanes with current IFR pilots. Finding us there, Chief Instructor Mike B commented that we were an "optimistic group" owing to an approaching cold front.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

Following a check of the weather, NOTAMS and TFR’s, you are confronted with some decisions to make. The weather is VMC but it’s hot, and the density altitude is really creeping up there. So why bother to look at an approach chart for your departure airport? My response would be, “what if ?” Fill in the blank yourself.

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 74

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

We started up the engine, got the weather, asked the tower for our instrument flight plan, and began to taxi from the T-hangars on the east side of the field down the familiar route of “Hotel, Echo” to runway 18 right for a departure to the north with a turn to the east. No ceiling so no hold for us today!

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Aileron Crosswind Knot Runway 72

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

They turned out to be from a weather outpost for the US Army Air Force’s 11th Weather Squadron, and that they were the only other people on the island. Once the war ended, however, the Lightning was left to the elements on Buldir Island, and the weather outpost abandoned. Ernest “Pappy” Pruett.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

It is one thing to consider breaking a 400-foot ceiling when everything in the cockpit is working. Just maybe setting higher personal ceiling and visibility limits for aircraft with legacy systems might give you more time to transition from partial instrument flight to a successful landing. No, it’s necessary.”

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Cockpit Pilot Transponder General Aviation 100

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 11, 2023

Shy of a hurricane or tornado, the Warrior can easily tolerate most weather phenomena experienced while parked outdoors in her cabin cover. Though only two days elapsed since arriving in Georgia, the Warrior had already weathered multiple rainstorms. The entire route to Pickens County was under IFR conditions with low ceilings.

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Descent Approach Airplanes Runway 52

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

That’s why the fresh approach Cirrus took to its next model in the SR series makes a lot of sense. Stephen Yeates] A Beginner’s Mind When you must approach something from a fresh perspective, it helps to go into a beginner’s mindset. Having been the former kind, I’ve had trouble putting myself in the latter’s point of view.

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Air Facts

MAY 27, 2024

I negotiated with Newark Tower for the Skyline at 1,500 feet then coordinated with LaGuardia Tower to get flight following, before being finally handed off to New York Approach for the rest of the way to KGON. The weather was exactly as forecasted (I know, right?), and it was the smoothest flight ever recorded by man. It gets better.

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Approach Ceiling Turbulence Pilot 71

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2024

We may be the best pilot ever born, but we can’t force a tired Skyhawk to climb above its genuine absolute ceiling, undefined by any performance chart. You should go only if the weather is as benign as forecast, good alternates exist, and you feel good about doing it. Can you fly a zero-thrust, single-engine approach to minimums today?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Therefore it is common for flight delays in departure and arrival especially if the weather is bad. Departure Hall (Landside) The design of the ceiling caught my attention. Notice the small disks of colour glass recess on the underside of the ceiling? What does this design of the ceiling look like to you?

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