Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

AGL is important for drone pilots as the regular ceiling for drone flight is defined as 400 feet AGL. Rather, it is affected by many factors, such as weather conditions and the presence of obstacles. Information transmitted via ATIS can include weather information, NOTAMs, available approaches, or active runaways.

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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

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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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 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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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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Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 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. Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the gloom.

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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 69

Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I’d get a full flight briefing, regardless of the weather. After startup, I’d record a VOR check in the aircraft log while waiting for our clearance. We flew the usual approaches: VOR, ILS, and the now extinct NDB. I thought flying in the weather was easier; even Charlie seemed more subdued in the soup.

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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. 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. The MOS weather shows rain ending by 8am, we shall see.

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Weather VOR Clearance Approach 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

With gusty winds forecast along the eastern seaboard on October 11, I let the weather prognostic chart suggest a different course. West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. Features on the floor and ceiling matched perfectly, adding plausible support to the split that had occurred.

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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. Eventually, we passed through the cold front that had pushed the dismal weather into Sodus that morning.

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