Air Facts
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
This was a standard approachmake it into DPA with an 800+ ceiling and the Tower would carry you to the pattern into 06C, about six miles to the northeast, solidly under the ORD Class B airspace. My plan was to make it into DPA with an 800+ ceiling and the Tower would carry me to the pattern into 06C, about six miles to the northeast.
Flight Training Central
MARCH 31, 2025
Approach light systems are a configuration of signal lights starting at the landing threshold and extending into the approach area, at a distance of 2,400 to 3,000 feet for precision instrument runways, and 1,400 to 1,500 feet for non-precision instrument runways.
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Pilot Institute
JANUARY 24, 2025
Special VFR (SVFR) is a clearance that is given to an aircraft by ATC that allows flights in controlled airspace under VFR when weather is below standard VFR minimums but above IFR thresholds. This means that you need a minimum cloud ceiling of 1,000ft when operating at airports with Class B, C, D, or E airspace.
Flight Training Central
JULY 12, 2024
You are only expected to hold short of this area when instructed to by ATC; however, at non-towered (pilot-controlled) airports, pilots should remain clear of ILS critical areas when an aircraft is within two miles of the runway threshold and the ceiling is below 800 feet OR the visibility is less than two miles.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 11, 2024
Moments after climbing through the ceiling over Beverly, MA. We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. Approaching the Green Mountains of Vermont, the ceiling began to close back up. This meant that there would be no getting into Sodus unless the ceiling lifted.
Plane and Pilot
AUGUST 1, 2024
It could carry a crew of two and four passengers at a cruise speed of 175 knots, or about 200 mph, at a service ceiling of more than 19,000 feet. We crossed the threshold just a few feet above the tarmac, and our intrepid pilot announced, “This is what I call the Tennessee waltz.” The very same craft is now enshrined in the Steven F.
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. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. A little more investigation revealed that the club’s mechanic had just completed a 100-hour inspection.
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