Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance. Sounds good.

Knot 111

Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For an instrument pilot, though, there is one key difference between a smaller, non-towered airport and a larger one with an air traffic control tower: obtaining an IFR clearance. Call for your IFR clearance, including route, altitude, and transponder code. Here are three ways to get a clearance at a non-towered airport.

Clearance 52

Clearance Air Traffic Control Airplanes Transponder 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Aircraft need to have a two-way radio, transponder with Mode C, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipment. Before entering Class C airspace, pilots must receive clearance from Air Traffic Control (ATC). Before flying into Class C airspace, a pilot must obtain a clearance from ATC.

Clearance 52

Clearance Transponder Knot Indicated Airspeed 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I contacted Rochester Approach, the controller came back with, "Are you looking for your clearance to College Park?" I answered in the affirmative, received my clearance, and was given a climb to 6,000 feet as the rain streaked over my windscreen. I gave my tail number and destination. "Oh, That cannot happen in the FRZ.

Transponder 52

Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 5, 2025

They were descending from cruise altitude to 8,000 feet with a clearance to fly direct to navigation fix TAMMI. Air traffic control, responding to the pilots odd transmission, simplified the clearance, issuing just a heading and an altitude. ATC announced loss of transponder data. It was the tail separating from the fuselage.

Clearance 97

Clearance Pilot Cockpit Descent 97

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Out back, theres an entirely new tail. Theres an unusual duck tail between the two elevator halves that provides a measure of anti-stall behavior. Given the need to preserve noggin-to-wing-spar clearance, its a smart but necessary solution.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

pic.twitter.com/eI2MjTSlO7 — Transponder 1200 (@Transponder1200) March 31, 2024 April Representing the only event to meet our criteria in April 2024, on April 13, 2024, a WestJet Encore De Havilland DHC-8-Q400 suffered a tailstrike on landing at Calgary International Airport (YYC). No hay heridos. degrees, the vertical load 2.47g.

Runway 258

Runway Airlines Airline Horizontal Stabilizer 258