Clearance General Aviation VOR 
Pilot Institute
APRIL 24, 2024
Pilots must meet equipment and certification requirements and have ATC clearance to enter. Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. Operating Requirements in Class B Airspace Operational Requirements VFR traffic needs explicit clearance to enter Bravo airspace.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 26, 2024
Practice requesting and receiving clearances. Before you request your first clearance, follow these inflight tips. Be Ready to Receive the Clearance After you have requested a clearance from ATC, ensure you are ready to receive it. First, be mentally prepared for the clearance. What you want/where you are going.
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Photographic Logbook
OCTOBER 28, 2023
Located directly on the Hudson River roughly thirty miles north of New York City, Sleepy Hollow is easily accessed by General Aviation and seven Williamson Flying Club members planned a Halloween pilgrimage there to follow the trail of the Headless Horseman. Better safe than sorry. That was a good plan.
Photographic Logbook
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. Although 9/11 marked the weaponization of commercial aircraft, the aftereffects are felt most keenly by General Aviation.
Air Facts
APRIL 10, 2024
The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. Other logbook entries weave a story of the experiences only general aviation can bring. In spring of 1967 I soloed after eight hours of dual and received my ticket that fall. Infrequent but noticeable.
Flight Training Central
APRIL 29, 2024
If the restricted area is not active and has been released to the controlling agency, the ATC facility will allow the aircraft to operate in the restricted airspace without issuing specific clearance. An aircraft can operate in these corridors without a clearance from or communication with ATC. VFR pilots must file a D.C.
AeroSavvy
AUGUST 20, 2021
I’m not Lindbergh… This trip was ambitious for me, but quite common in the general aviation community. Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six Navigation equipment includes a Garmin GNS-530W GPS navigator and two VOR receivers for secondary navigation. Small aircraft are designed for these kinds of flights.
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