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Flight Sims for the Win: It’s All About Repetition and Drill

Flying Magazine

If utilizing Runway 17 with left traffic, the crosswind turn will be heading 080, downwind 350, base 260, etc. Scenario 4: Crosswinds If only flight instructors could control the weather, we’d have the learners practicing crosswind takeoffs and landings on a regular basis. Next, introduce the VOR.

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How to Fly the Perfect Holding Pattern (Entry, Wind Correction, etc.)

Pilot Institute

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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Rubber bands – the reason I quit

Air Facts

The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. And then the landing near Palm Springs when I became a test pilot for the 182RG crosswind component. In spring of 1967 I soloed after eight hours of dual and received my ticket that fall. And that’s it isn’t it?

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The Key West of Ohio

Photographic Logbook

Off Sodus, I briefly leveled at 2,500 feet to remain visual until I received my instrument clearance from Rochester Approach. Fortunately, the clearance was a simple one that morning because I was absurdly tongue tied while talking to Rochester. Serpentine tendrils of mist followed the course of the Genesee River south of Letchworth.

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Hot Times in the "Freeze"

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Long story short, when I received my clearance that evening, it was to my originally intended BELTS waypoint.) We were cleared direct to College Park via the Westminster VOR (EMI). We reunited with Simon before making our cellphone calls to Potomac for departure clearances. Tough room. Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, PA.

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