Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Subscribe Now Featured A) Two Radials Depicted From the STL VOR, there are two radials depicted that intersect with the final approach path—the R-144 and the R-194. Transitioning from the TOY VOR is also a heavy line radial along the R-261 and notes that no procedure turn would be needed (NoPT).

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VOR Final Approach Approach NDB 59

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

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For example: Pilot: Seattle Approach, Cessna November Four Five One Romeo, Two Zero miles west of Seattle VOR, at 8,000, with Sierra, to land. The departure runway and the departure procedure. For example, ATC: Fly runway heading until two miles from Kennedy VOR, then turn right, heading one zero zero.

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Approach Clearance Pilot Air Traffic Control 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

If utilizing Runway 17 with left traffic, the crosswind turn will be heading 080, downwind 350, base 260, etc. Don’t accept the excuses of “I can’t fly if I can’t see the runway,” or “I can’t feel the airplane.” Note the 90-degree marks on the heading indicator as these help with orientation. It’s an ATD.

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Crosswind Airplanes VOR Runway 105

Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. 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.

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Runway Approach Weather VOR 99

ABEAM

JULY 5, 2024

After the necessary paperwork issues, we took off from runway 34R at Hurghada and got cleared to the right over the Red Sea. Hurghada Approach passed us off to Cairo Control and they refused to give us a direct to the first Saudi VOR WEJ at the east side of the Red Sea due to unknown reasons.

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VOR Density Altitude Approach Final Approach 52

Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Though it’s rare, your destination airport could become unusable due to a thunderstorm moving in, or a disabled airplane on the runway. IFR Alternate Airport Planning Legal requirements for selecting an alternate airport Additional GPS Approach Considerations Which weather forecast should you use?

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Ceiling Pilot Weather Approach 98

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This approach gives perspective on all factors, including those that might otherwise be ignored or unrecognized. The instructor was able to complete the turn, but the airplane overshot the runway. From my point of view it was evident that we did not have enough room to safely land on Runway 17.

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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 98

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If you’re on a non-precision or precision approach, understanding MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude) and DA (Decision Altitude) is incredibly important. Key Takeaways MDA applies to non-precision approaches, requiring pilots to level off at a minimum altitude. IFR approaches use something called approach minimums.

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Altimeter Descent Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll explain what these approaches are, what equipment you’ll need, and why it’s important to understand them for safer flight. Key Takeaways LPV approaches use satellite guidance for near-ILS precision and lower minimums. VNAV adds automated vertical guidance to approaches, reducing pilot workload during descents.

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Approach Descent Weather VOR 52

Gary's Flight Journal

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan for today was flying to Delaware Coastal(GED)and knocking out the RNAV GPS 22 and RNAV GPS 4 approaches with the Stec 60-2 autopilot. I can't remember the last Localizer approach I shot. Once in the air and headed towards HUVOX, the Initial Approach Fix (IAF) for the GPS 22, we transferred controls. Forgot the cool.

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VOR Approach Tail Cockpit 52

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

I expected minimal IMC time and the need for an approach appeared beyond remote. Even though I was likely to be cleared through the outer ring by ATC (air traffic control) while on an instrument flight plan, I filed a route from Sodus to the Williamsport VOR (FQM) that circumvented the TFR entirely. Famous last words.) Foolish mortal.

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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 69

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

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. ATC was great, the FBO (FlightLevel - Beverly) treated us well and charged reasonable fees, and radar services were managed by the perennially capable Boston Approach.

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 13, 2025

You can use the CDI with navigation aids like VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) or GPS. We wont explain technical details, so you may not understand the example if you havent used a VOR. Imagine were flying an HSI-equipped airplane away from VOR. Q: What is the difference between a VOR and a HSI? What would you say to them?

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VOR Cockpit Altimeter Weather 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 26, 2024

Touch and go – aircraft lands on the runway and then accelerates to take off again. Cleared for the option – authorization to make a touch-and-go, low approach, missed approach, stop-and-go, or full-stop landing. At non-towered airports, you’ll have CTAF , AWOS , and maybe approach control for flight following.

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Clearance Runway Approach Pilot 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Then, we’d meet in Signature’s lobby, IAD’s FBO, and go over the day’s lesson: destination, altitude, maneuvers, approaches, and completion standards. The flying club’s Cessnas and Pipers stood out like a flock of scrawny pigeons as the eagles of Pan Am, TWA, British Airways, and the like lumbered by on their way to and from the runways.

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NDB Checkride VOR Approach 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If you take off from Runway 27, you intercept and track the PDZ R-030 radial inbound and make a direct entry tracking the PDZ R-078 radial outbound, using non-standard left turns. If you take off from Runway 9, you would intercept and track the PDZ R-093 radial inbound, execute a parallel entry, and then track the PDZ R-078 outbound.

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Aeronautical Information Manual VOR Approach Air Traffic Control 52

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The VOR was useless, so I was now flying IFD (I Follow Directions) zig zagging across the country getting new vectors from time to time. As we approached the small cloud, Frank said we were too close, seeing no sign of lighting at all. He said the tower was about two miles out and if we didnt see ALL of it, we should return.

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Weather Airplanes VOR Runway 96

WayMan

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This is a predetermined routing path of an aircraft from the departure runway onto an enroute airway. For example, a typical SID could read: “Fly runway heading to 3,000 feet, then radar vectors to the airway.” For example, “Fly runway heading to 3,000 feet, then DIRECT XYZ VOR.”

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Pilot Instrument Flight Rules Runway VOR 52

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

Most holding fixes are NAVAIDs such as VORs, RNAV (GPS) waypoints, and even ILS markers. When VORs are used as holding fixes, the fix is usually a specific DME distance on a particular radial. If the VOR doesn’t have DME capability, it will be the intersection between two radials from two separate VORs.

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VOR Pilot Crosswind Approach 52

Flight Training Central

MAY 23, 2024

Does it feel like the more landings or instrument approaches you practice, the worse you get? No, you should take a proactive approach and there are some things you can do. A non-towered field with a shorter runway will challenge you and help you hone your aim-point on landings. What can you do? Keep trying and hope for best?

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VOR Approach Airplanes Runway 52

Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

After warming the oil I taxied for runway two and picked up my super secret squawk code to get out with the TFR in place. Nope, VFR today, but if I need it I’ll open with whatever approach I’m on with. As we approached Barrett’s Mountain VOR you could make out the mountains ahead.

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Approach Knot VOR Weather 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. I was handed off to Charleston approach and the controller turned me to the coast. When I was handed off to Wilmington approach they asked if I was VFR or IFR. Saturday 9.16

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Weather Clearance VOR Approach 52

Universal Weather

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Technical Details Runway Length : 11,000 ft / 3,353 m Approach Aids : ILS/DME, VOR/DME Surface : Asphalt Elevation : 167 ft / 51 m Weather Considerations Barbados enjoys a warm, tropical maritime climate year-round, with daytime highs generally between 27C and 30C (80F86F).

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Clearance Weather VOR Hangar 52

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The shape of the surface area and layers are tailored to the individual airport and the instrument approach corridors to its runways. IFR operations require an operable VOR or TACAN receiver or a suitable RNAV system. As you move further from the primary airport, layers or shelves that start above the surface will be found.

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Indicated Airspeed Airspace Classes Clearance Pilot in Command 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When both plans were filed, he asked me to stand-by while he verified that the flight plan was properly pushed to Cleveland Center where Rochester Approach would be able to retrieve it. When I contacted Rochester Approach, the controller came back with, "Are you looking for your clearance to College Park?"

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Airports such as ATL and JFK have multiple runways and cover around 5,000 acres of land. Two-way radio contact with the approach controller is not enough. If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS). However, you must receive clearance from approach control before entering Class B airspace.

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Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

It is an old school approach and feels like a throwback to my earlier flying days. Specifically, I was told by Potomac Approach in 2023, "I cannot give you direct to destination out of College Park." Airport Incognito While still on with Harrisburg Approach, the inevitable IFR re-route came. miles from the US Capitol building.

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Pilot Flight Plan Air Traffic Control General Aviation 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six Navigation equipment includes a Garmin GNS-530W GPS navigator and two VOR receivers for secondary navigation. After 50 minutes, we were taxiing to the runway. The approach and taxi are time compressed; the landing is normal speed. Our initial climb rate was 500-600 feet/minute.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Off Sodus, I briefly leveled at 2,500 feet to remain visual until I received my instrument clearance from Rochester Approach. West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. Closer to South Bass Island, the Put-In-Bay Airport (runways 3-21) appeared along the southeastern shore.

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Runway Approach Knot Drag 82

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I ignore him, select three VOR stations, determine our radial from each of them, draw it on the map, and determine our approximate position based on the intersection of the lines. We’re ten agonizing minutes to safety, but the approaching twilight in the relentless rain makes visual flight increasingly difficult.

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Weather Knot Pilot Distance Measuring Equipment 97

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2024

WAAS Precision With WAAS, aircraft can achieve impressive navigation capabilities, including vertical and horizontal accuracy within 1-2 meters and support for advanced approach procedures like Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV). WAAS : Facilitates advanced Area Navigation (RNAV) and approach procedures.

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Approach Instrument Landing System Instrument Flight Rules Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

It seemed to continue this way until we finally rolled onto the runway and got to the good part. Say you are approaching the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport from the south in a Cessna 12345 and want to make a full stop landing. Enter left downwind Runway 18, report midfield.” This initial exchange is not quite done, though.

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Aeronautical Information Manual Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 65

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

It seemed to continue this way until we finally rolled onto the runway and got to the good part. Say you are approaching the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport from the south in a Cessna 12345 and want to make a full stop landing. Enter left downwind Runway 18, report midfield.” This initial exchange is not quite done, though.

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Aeronautical Information Manual Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control 52

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

M ost difficult experience has been taxiing when visibility for runways is down to 150 m or less. I’d venture to say that few aircraft out there can cruise at 350 kts, and operate safely out of the 2500-ft runway at WKR, which has had its share of landing mishaps. Antonio Aranda ATP. I’m proud of this piece of equipment. It happened!

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Pilot Runway NOTAMs TWR 40

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Finding us there, Chief Instructor Mike B commented that we were an "optimistic group" owing to an approaching cold front. Tom and I filed via the Rockdale VOR, which was a starting point on the Nobbi Five arrival procedure used in the greater New York area. Final, runway 34, photographed from Two Six Romeo.

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Clearance Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since then, the former airbase has seen its runways either truncated (9-27), deleted (15-33), or transformed into taxiways (4-22). Today, it is home to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM, part of the broader Ingenium collection of museums in Ottawa) housed within a 1988 facility built along former runway 22 (taxiway D).

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Runway Flight Plan Clearance Weather 52