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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Universal Weather
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Airport Infrastructure and Operations TBPB operates 24/7, offering flexibility for business aviation movements. Peak general aviation (GA) traffic times occur between 11001400 and 18002100 local time, which may lead to fueling delays or limited parking availability. Universal Aviation can assist with APIS filing upon request.
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.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 6, 2024
To provide student pilots an opportunity to experience real world general aviation flying outside of the training environment and introduce them to what they can do once they have earned their pilot certificates. To support our member pilots in trying new things in aviation that might be too intimidating for them to try on their own.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Before RNAV, pilots had to rely on radios (NAVAIDs) and antennas on the ground such as VORs (Very High-Frequency Omnidirectional Range) and NDBs (Non-Directional Beacons). LP+V approaches dont always account for obstacle clearance, so theyre not an officially protected procedure. You wont find any mention of LP+V on an approach plate.
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