Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

It’s simply an attitude and the way we approach each and every flight. Or, sadly, too many pilots’ final decision: “The weather is really marginal, but with a little luck, I should be able to make it.” This kind of methodical approach helps to avoid nasty surprises and large insurance claims. This approach improves the odds.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For a flight under IFR or a flight not in the vicinity of an airport, weather reports and forecasts, fuel requirements, alternatives available if the planned flight cannot be completed , and any known traffic delays of which the pilot in command has been advised by ATC.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

These figures are vital for the crew to be able to calculate the actual take-off speed of the airplane in the prevailing weather conditions (as we’ll see later). One of the first items on before taxi checklists is to set the take-off flaps well before the aircraft approaches the runway.

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Cabin Crew Runway Clearance Knot 269

One Mile at a Time

JULY 20, 2024

We can now add yet another near catastrophe to the list, and this might just be the scariest one we’ve seen so far… Southwest 737 MAX has near disaster on approach to Tampa This incident happened on Sunday, July 14, 2024, and involves Southwest Airlines flight WN425 , scheduled to fly from Columbus (CMH) to Tampa (TPA).

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Air Traffic Control Altimeter Runway Weather 141

iPad Pilot News

APRIL 3, 2025

Theres a lot of information here, but its well organized: youll see your list of flights on the left, a row of buttons along the top to access the Navlog and Weather Briefings, and the main data entry screen just below that. The Flights screen can be used for much more than just filing a flight plan.

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Universal Weather

APRIL 3, 2025

Customs & Immigration: CIQ clearance is available at the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) from 0800-2100 local time. Outside these hours, clearance is provided at the main terminal. Noise Abatement & Approach Requirements: Special crew briefing required prior to operating.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

We often hear that the key to a great landing is an equally great approach. And lets face it, the key to that flawless approach is often a well-planned descent. These tools help the pilots deal with this busy section of the flight replete with numerous checklists, changing clearances, and traffic. When to Start Down?

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This was another satisfying trip, full of ADM, IMSAFE, and trade-offs—and weather. The weather was… interesting. 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. The first two nights there seemed calm, but about 9 p.m.,

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 80

Flight Training Central

MAY 28, 2024

But as the destination traffic pattern approaches, workload increases dramatically. A firm understanding of the proper terminal area procedures is essential for staying safe as you depart or approach the airport. a long straight in final approach to the active runway. Safe obstruction clearance in the approach area.

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Crosswind Runway Clearance Air Traffic Control 98

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

Rather, it is affected by many factors, such as weather conditions and the presence of obstacles. Examples of information that can be communicated by an FSS include weather advisories, traffic advisories, navigational aids, or information from military bases or homeland security. VFR requires minimum weather and visibility conditions.

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Pilot Weather Air Traffic Control NOTAMs 52

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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Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For a flight under IFR or a flight not in the vicinity of an airport, weather reports and forecasts, fuel requirements, alternatives available if the planned flight cannot be completed , and any known traffic delays of which the pilot in command has been advised by ATC.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Over the last 25 years, I have been asked to speak on various aviation weather topics at dozens of aviation events and gatherings. During these events, it’s quite common for a pilot to walk up and ask me about how I handled my most challenging flight as it relates to weather. My presentation later that afternoon went extremely well.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Use the CRAFT acronym to note down departure clearances quickly. Or you might stray off course and into bad weather or obstacles. You may be asking for a clearance or reporting your position. If you have weather information Charlie, then you say youre with Charlie. is talking to Dallas Clearance Delivery.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The go-to instrument approach for keeping the mail moving is: Cleared for the visual. So its worth a review of the corner-cases and gotchas hidden in the plain-sight (visual) approach. Weather reporting at the destination isnt required so long as some reliable source says theres at least 1000-foot ceilings and three miles visibly.

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Approach Clearance Runway Ceiling 52

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. A call to home base for a land-supported retrieval provided ample opportunity for explanation in response to my peers’ interrogation: “What were you thinking, flying in this weather?”

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Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This means you need to contact the tower on the appropriate frequency and receive clearance to enter. Read Back Clearances : When you receive instructions or clearances from the tower, read them back to confirm you’ve understood them correctly. Unless you hear this clearance and confirm it with a read back, do not land.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The go-to instrument approach for keeping the mail moving is: Cleared for the visual. So its worth a review of the corner-cases and gotchas hidden in the plain-sight (visual) approach. Weather reporting at the destination isnt required so long as some reliable source says theres at least 1000-foot ceilings and three miles visibly.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For an instrument pilot, though, there is one key difference between a smaller, non-towered airport and a larger one with an air traffic control tower: obtaining an IFR clearance. Call for your IFR clearance, including route, altitude, and transponder code. Here are three ways to get a clearance at a non-towered airport.

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Air Facts

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We’ve included questions that cover everything from clearances to complex arrival procedures, each crafted to test your technical know-how and situational awareness. climb to, but not descend from 4,000 feet, without further ATC clearance. climb to, but not descend from 4,000 feet, without further ATC clearance. Let’s go!

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. The destination weather frequency callout provides the destination airport weather frequency (ATIS, AWOS, or ASOS). There’s also a scratchpad tool to copy clearances as you listen.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

For new instrument pilots, flying an approach to minimums is a big challenge. Adding an approach briefing to the mix feels like one task too many. Luckily, mastering approach briefings is not as hard as it seems. This article breaks down how to deliver a top-notch approach briefing, every time. Final approach course.

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Approach NOTAMs Runway Weather 52

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. The Mooney is well-equipped for weather avoidance as it is equipped with a sophisticated spheric lighting detector. ATC then informed us we were number two for the approach and to maintain 4,000’.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

They are the Visual Approach Slope Indicator and Precision Approach Path Indicator. These systems are designed to help you stay on the correct glide path as you approach the runway. VASI and PAPI each have their own approach. However, not all types of aircraft are meant to take the same approach path. What Is VASI?

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Both trips involved similar routes, the same destination, and periods of both VFR and IFR weather. First, I planned to fly into midsize airports equipped with both approach radar and an operating tower. The weather was mildly IFR, the aircraft performed flawlessly, and I found out later that my university team won.

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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. With my risk profile, IFR really means ignoring crappy VFR and VFR cloud clearance requirements.

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Aerotime

MAY 24, 2024

Investors don’t need to do clearance between the zone and the airport. We are taking a comprehensive approach to lower the environmental impact to the minimum possible while guaranteeing the development of aviation activities to meet the goals of our aviation strategy.” he explained. he said.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Vigilance, monitoring traffic, and staying attuned to changing weather conditions contribute significantly to safety. Setting up for an approach, taxiing at a busy airfield with complicated diagrams, during the actual takeoff and landing, or receiving an updated weather briefing in flight are a few examples of this.

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AV Web

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Unicorn Clearance It was a quiet morningthe pondering kind. And there it is, the unicorn, the never-used clearance. I can count on one hand, with half my fingers, rounded down, how many times Ive issued this clearance. But despite being my first actual issuance, this clearance didnt feel that way at all. Why was that?

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VFR On Top Clearance Approach Weather 59

AV Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Let’s say that there is a major city served by most airlines that is also a fortress hub for a major airline and that that airport is in the first day of recovery from a very serious weather event like a 10-year winter blizzard or hurricane. Meanwhile, the tower controllers have several aircraft on or near final approach.

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Airlines Airline Clearance Airplanes 105

Universal Weather

APRIL 17, 2024

Due to local noise restrictions, LFMD mandates that the crew obtain a special approach briefing, which can be found on the airport site. CIQ clearance Customs, immigration, and quarantine (CIQ) clearance is possible at LFMN within 24 hours. Meanwhile, LIMJ and LFML are 24-hour airports with clearance within the main terminal.

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Clearance General Aviation Flight Plan NOTAMs 97

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Avtech proFLIGHT This app is a high-quality weather tool for the professional flight crew. ProFLIGHT uses the actual flight route and time combined with the Met Office’s Global 10KM Weather model to produce a tailored weather forecast based on the most up to date information.

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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. The weather is perfect with a cool breeze as we searched for sone late lunch.

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Air Facts

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The year was 2017, and I was two months into my first pilot job flying skydivers in the C182 at a small Canadian drop zone, when my boss approached me with this question. This came after a week of weather delay with some of the thickest fog I had ever seen blanketed Vancouver Island. My approach into St.

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Weather Approach VFR On Top Knot 98

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. ATP-ME, DPE-ATP-TYPE, A&P/IA, DAR-T, CAM), President/Director of Operations and Maintenance at Jet Logistics. .”

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The two most useful benefits have been ADS-B datalink weather and a real-time traffic display in the cockpit, delivered by the network of ADS-B ground stations in the U.S. How is the weather developing? What is the best IFR route and which approach can I expect? Call the controller or a flight service specialist.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The weather was overcast for the flight route, with cloud tops reaching temperatures forecast from 0° to -35°C (32° to -31°F). The captain made a passenger announcement to give the Guarulhos weather information and estimated time left in the flight. Source: CENIPA The captain resumed the approach briefing.

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