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Keeping One Step Ahead of ATC when flying IFR

Flight Training Central

Gone are the days of making an educated guess on a route, only to have ATC respond with a full route clearance with intersections and airways. It now takes only a moment in ForeFlight, Garmin Pilot or FltPlan.com to enter a departure and destination airport and then see recently issued clearances to other aircraft flying the same route.

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My Near Death Experience

Air Facts

This necessitated slowing the airplane down to leave the vertical space to descend another 2,000’ to reach the initial approach fix (IAF) at 2,000′ I requested a descent to the IAF altitude of 2,000’ but was only cleared to 3,000’. ” As I broke out of the clouds on the final approach course, I flew about 1.5

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Day 4: Entering The States CYVP-CYKL-CYVO-KATW – Along the Blue Spruce Routes to the USA

ABEAM

We started the game to deviate to the left and the right but after a while nature was winning from us: we could not avoid anymore getting into the clouds which potentially carried ice, turbulence or worse. After some vectoring by Green Bay approach, we were cleared for the RNP runway 30 approach at Appleton.

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Flying with TAP Air Portugal From Lisbon to London Heathrow

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

About 40 minutes on the aircraft, we were finally on our way, no updates from the Captain until later part of the flight. The turbulence was not as bad as what I was anticipating and for most parts of the flight, it was smooth. Off we go, fortunately it wasn't turbulent. Below) We were on final approach to runway 27L.

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Speak Like an #AvGeek: A Glossary For Enthusiasts

NYC Aviation

EDCT – Expected Departure Clearance Time. Go Around – An aborted landing by an aircraft that is on final approach. Turbulence – Momentary, erratic changes in altitude or attitude. The runway release time assigned to an aircraft operating in traffic management programs.

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Leaving South America On Board Delta Airlines Boeing 767-400ER

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

We waited for another 10 minutes before finally given the clearance to board the aircraft, I wonder what was the cause of the delay. As this was the first time sitting quite front in the Boeing 767-400ER, I find it to be quite noisy during take off and there was quite a bit of turbulence during the flight.

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2700 Miles in a Cherokee Six

AeroSavvy

Bad data caused by turbulence, turns, and other anomalies was discarded. All of our flying started early in the mornings before afternoon turbulence and storms. Phoenix Approach Control gave us a few delay vectors before turning us onto final approach. Pressure altitudes were converted to density altitude.