Professional Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

The InSight installation on the Hawker 800XP includes three high-resolution displays and two touchscreen-enabled control displays, integrating with the Universal FMS to enable Data Communications and LPV approaches. The integrated FMS enables graphical flight planning and streamlines operations.

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Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

A pit stop at North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (KCRE) was planned, and after a weather briefing, I filed an IFR flight plan. Continued along at 6,000’ I advised ATC that the weather was received and requested the RNAV 24 approach. ATC then informed us we were number two for the approach and to maintain 4,000’.

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Air Facts

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Now, instead of showing up in flight ops and finding my flight planning had all been done for me by my dispatcher, I was now the dispatcher. KMPO is an non-towered field as are several other places I fly to and from on an IFR flight plan. We would shoot some approaches there, then return IFR to PGD.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

six instrument approaches, holding procedures, and intercepting and tracking courses in the appropriate category of aircraft. completes the required 6 hours and six approaches, followed by an instrument proficiency check given by an FAA-designated examiner. the ILS approach can be credited only if you use a view-limiting device.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Join Spencer Suderman as he does just that, on a flight from Jacksonville to Daytona Beach, FL. You’ll learn about the entire process, starting with filing a flight plan in ForeFlight to retrieving an IFR clearance from ATC, en-route navigation, and how to fly the instrument approach at the destination.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2024

CRAFT is a simple way pilots remember their IFR clearance. Key Takeaways Use the acronym CRAFT as a helpful guide to break down your IFR clearance. Avoid the common mistakes in receiving your clearance by staying prepared and organized. Develop your own techniques alongside CRAFT and keep practicing to master IFR clearances.

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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. It’s only two hours by RV-9A, but there are gotchas lurking in the flight planning.

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Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I already had set up for Patuxent approach so I switched from CTAF to Pax to pick up my clearance. As we approached the Bay I counted seventeen ships at anchor, waiting to be cleared through the temporary channel at the former Francis Scott Key bridge. I had a constant headwind for the entire flight. Ok, enough rambling.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Put the aircraft in level flight to give them a moment to consider their next course of action so they are not anxiously doing climbs, descents, and unplanned turns. Have the learner go through a flight from start-up to shutdown using the GPS. This is a lesson that should not be rushed. This throws down a gauntlet of challenge.

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 15, 2024

flight Watch a sample video here Advanced IFR Online Course Earning an instrument rating is a major achievement, but many pilots soon realize that flying IFR on a trip is different from the checkride. It’s a real problem and something PilotWorkshops has seen repeatedly over the past 17 years providing IFR training.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Before entering Class C airspace, pilots must receive clearance from Air Traffic Control (ATC). Maintaining awareness of airspace boundaries helps with the planning and carrying out of successful flights. Before flying into Class C airspace, a pilot must obtain a clearance from ATC. Here’s what you need to know.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Keep interaction with passengers, other tasks you might want to perform during your flight, or even management of the resources used in the flight deck—such as an electronic flight bag (EFB) device—to periods where the workload is minimal and you don’t sacrifice attention necessary to complete more critical tasks.

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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. Getting sequenced into a busy Class D, C, or even B airport gets much easier when you are doing so on an IFR flight plan.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

The day before we left, I had already worked the flight plan dozens of times, looking for potential pitfalls and hiccups. Two hours later, Allentown (Pennsylvania) Approach handed me off to Newark (New Jersey) Approach when I was 30 miles east of the city. This made the direct trip to KLDJ less than two and a half hours.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

The day before we left, I had already worked the flight plan dozens of times, looking for potential pitfalls and hiccups. Two hours later, Allentown (Pennsylvania) Approach handed me off to Newark (New Jersey) Approach when I was 30 miles east of the city. This made the direct trip to KLDJ less than two and a half hours.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

As I started to plan it, I thought about the concept of SRM and set some ground rules for myself. First, I planned to fly into midsize airports equipped with both approach radar and an operating tower. In solid IFR, it was time for Plan B. It was time to divert. The folks at the FBO were gracious and helpful.

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Northstar VFR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Even the most basic kneeboard can be a huge help to a pilot for writing down clearances, ATIS information, or heading/altitude instructions. EFBs make flight deck management simple by keeping aeronautical charts, scratch pads, weather information, and approach plates housed in a single app such as ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Additionally, a pilot should report any of the following events:: When vacating any previously assigned altitude or flight level for a newly assigned altitude or flight level ( AIM 5-3-3 ) When an altitude change will be made if operating on a clearance specifying VFR-on-top. ( AIM 5-3-3 ) When an approach has been missed. (

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

New Adventures in Flight Planning and Filing I decided to test-drive my PIN and the whole FRZ process for the first time as my annual fall solo flight in October of 2023. Any flight into the FRZ requires a FRZ flight plan. For the most part, the process was quick and easy.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

If you focus too much on the inside, you might overlook cues like approaching traffic, changing weather conditions, or landmarks. Here’s what to avoid: “Uh, Chicago Approach, this is Cessna, uh, 34568, we’re at about, uh, 3,000 feet, and we’d like to, uh, request permission to enter the Class Charlie airspace.”

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Follow procedures when requesting an SVFR clearance or departing a non-towered airport. This standard procedure spells out how youll approach, enter, and exit the airspace around the airport. Final approach: This is the straight path leading to your landing. Runway incursions are caused by lapses in awareness and communication.

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

From flight planning, I knew that we would experience rain, instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and darkness. We departed Sodus VFR and contacted Rochester Approach for our instrument clearance. All went according to plan. I requested the RNAV-5 instrument approach from Albany.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Many factors could prevent the controller from providing this service, such as: Radar Limitations Traffic Volume Controller Workload Frequency Congestion The workload-permitting service makes flight following different from Instrument Flight Rule (IFR) flights. Are you then forced to stick with that plan?

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As MTH is non-towered, we intended to get our IFR clearance in the air after departing and heading south. But ATC was very helpful and gave us our IFR clearance quickly and we were on our way without even a glimpse of an F-16. He looks up to tell us that we need to file a flight plan. ADIZ”, like right away!

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

No ATC clearance is required for VFR flights below 10,000 feet. While other types of controlled airspace require two-way radio communication, IFR flight plans, and various kinds of equipment, Class E airspace below 10,000 feet does not. They allow you enough clearance to see and avoid other airplanes.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 9, 2024

Exactly like NYC, downtown Boston is encircled by restrictive Class Bravo airspace down to the surface that requires explicit clearance to enter. Date Aircraft Route of Flight Time (hrs) Total (hrs) 09 July 2024 N21481 BVY (Beverly, MA) - BVY 1.2 November Four Eight One, continue inbound, you'll get your Bravo clearance from Tower."

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Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I completed my pre flight with only needing to sump fuel on departure day. My Garmin 480 is updated and I have my flight plan ready for entry after planning on Foreflight. It was a beautiful VFR day and Patuxent asked if I wanted to open my IFR plan. I worked each approach in reverse order of our flight south.

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iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This AC offers suggestions for evaluating portable electronic devices and clarifies that cell phones and LTE-enabled iPads, while prohibited from use in flight by FCC regulations, are allowed to be used in aircraft while on the ground for picking up a clearance or filing a flight plan.

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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. To start our flying day I must stress the most important part of flight planning, ADM, Aeronautical Decision Making. Saturday 9.16 Sunday 9.17 Departure Day!

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Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

However, when Gulfstream introduced its Honeywell-made Synthetic Vision System – Primary Flight Display to business aircraft in 2005, it was the real thing. SVS is integrated with flight instruments and primary flight displays (PFDs) to give flight data, such as heading, altitude, airspeed, and attitude.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

In order to reach College Park, pilots must receive specific training from the FAA, undergo vetting by the TSA to earn a personal identification number (PIN) necessary to authorize flight plans within the FRZ, and follow the unique and specific rules for operating into and out of the FRZ. If that sounds intimidating, it is. Tough room.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 7, 2024

After climbing through a localized layer of clouds, we found ourselves cruising in smooth air on an IFR flight plan with clouds scattered about -- but not impinging on -- our route. Approach called the Cirrus again -- because of course it was a Cirrus -- and issued him another vector away from Warrior 481.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Just to be clear, although I avoid flying in “hard” IFR, all of my IFR practice includes approaches to minimums, go-arounds, and holding patterns—just in case. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get. The next leg, and the two after it, followed my standard cross-country plan.

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Flightworx

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Central to these considerations is the landing permit, an indispensable tool that grants aircraft the legal clearance to touch down in foreign lands. This mandates a nuanced and culturally aware approach to navigating diverse landscapes effectively.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 25, 2024

JFK 09/317 JFK TWY WA BTN TWY A AND TWY B CLSD 2309191827-PERM FDC NOTAM Flight Data Center (FDC) NOTAMs outline changes affecting instrument flight rules (IFR) operations. These include changes made to instrument approaches, STARs, SIDs, and IFR airways. Is there a NOTAM for the approach you intend to use?

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Just to be clear, although I avoid flying in “hard” IFR, all of my IFR practice includes approaches to minimums, go-arounds, and holding patterns—just in case. Soft” IFR is what you plan for, and “hard” IFR is what you might get. The next leg, and the two after it, followed my standard cross-country plan.

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AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Time to Santa Fe: 2:08 Distance: 216 nm Cruise altitude: 10,000 ft Tucumcari, NM from 8,000 feet Wind turbines near Wildorado, TX Parked at Santa Fe Jet Center Here’s a 3 minute video of our approach and landing in Santa Fe. The approach and taxi are time compressed; the landing is normal speed.

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