Fear of Landing

JUNE 7, 2024

The gate agent remembered that the weather was terrible: thunderstorms with rain and hail. The bad weather continued to plague them and the crew were concerned about the lightning, icing and turbulence associated with thunderstorms. The controller cleared the flight and said their descent clearance was being processed.

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Air Facts

JUNE 24, 2024

To put it in aviation terms, if I told you Bill is a doctor, you might assume he’s flying a V-tail Bonanza. V-tail Bonanzas, as mentioned above, seem to attract particularly wild speculation. Tail failures, the favorite theory when commenters don’t know any better, have indeed happened , but not nearly as often as most people think.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The weather was overcast for the flight route, with cloud tops reaching temperatures forecast from 0° to -35°C (32° to -31°F). The captain made a passenger announcement to give the Guarulhos weather information and estimated time left in the flight. The estimated flight time was an hour and forty-five minutes for the flight of 735 km.

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 29, 2024

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Before entering Class C airspace, pilots must receive clearance from Air Traffic Control (ATC). Give ATC a brief but informative transmission with the following information: The kind and tail number of the aircraft. Before flying into Class C airspace, a pilot must obtain a clearance from ATC. Altitude and intentions (e.g.,

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Universal Weather

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Always provide your ground handler with aircraft type, registration (tail number), flight number if non-private flight, and estimated arrival time. Anyone on the ramp must have clearance or be accompanied by someone who does. CIQ Upon landing, passengers/crew will be transported to customs/immigration for clearance.

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Universal Weather

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If you have large, wide-body equipment, such as an Airbus A340 or Boeing 777/747, you’ll be parked on the commercial/airline side and transported to the GAT for CIQ clearance. FBOs and ground handling FBOs A 24-hour GA Terminal (GAT) is available at LEBL , with Customs, Immigration, and Quarantine (CIQ) clearance on site 24H.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Yes, sir, we are requesting Bravo clearance for the Hudson River at 1,500. Mine was to keep us at 1,300 feet, hugging the right side of the Hudson River, and listen for our tail number. Great weather with only a slight headwind. After taxiing to Runway 27 and doing a thorough run-up, I called Newark Clearance.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Yes, sir, we are requesting Bravo clearance for the Hudson River at 1,500. Mine was to keep us at 1,300 feet, hugging the right side of the Hudson River, and listen for our tail number. Great weather with only a slight headwind. After taxiing to Runway 27 and doing a thorough run-up, I called Newark Clearance.

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Universal Weather

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You must submit the tail number, aircraft type, size, and arrival/departure schedule to request parking. Therefore, it’s best to be at the airport at least two hours before departure to ensure the FBO has all documentation for departure, customs, fuel, flight plans, and weather packages. Local warnings are issued in advance.

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Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Beating the Odds I called for and received taxi clearance to the museum and started rolling. Dan received the same clearance. Dan received his taxi clearance, then offered that the whole process works better when the chocks are removed before engine start. Mere recollection of the incident was enough to make me blush.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

We were out for a beautiful evening flight in perfect weather. I requested permission to land, and received a clearance to land “any runway, any direction, any time.” We slowed, tapped the tail first, and the nose came down solidly, causing the now open passenger door to come off in Diane’s hand. And she was not kidding.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This was another satisfying trip, full of ADM, IMSAFE, and trade-offs—and weather. The weather was… interesting. Fussing with the avionics to keep tabs on the weather gave many more knob touches than the airplane itself. The FAA weather said a thunderstorm was forecast, gusts to 6 knots. Lesson learned.

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Universal Weather

MAY 22, 2023

This is to arrange ground handling and to notify the airport for arrival/departure CIQ clearance purposes. For flight notifications operators should provide: full schedule aircraft registration and tail number crew and passenger information Note that if flight notification has not been provided in advance there may be delays upon arrival.

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Universal Weather

MARCH 29, 2024

Tech Stops For tech stops, a general aviation report is submitted to Customs, Immigration, and Quarantine (CIQ) authorities, who will process the information and determine if a clearance is required. Depending on the airport, there may be different clearance procedures and processes to consider.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

There was a bit of queue waiting for clearance to enter the terminal. In my head - It's time for me to go home and that's it), before finally given me the clearance to leave the country. At least when we started our descent, the weather was much better, descending and landing in smooth condition. Seriously? (In

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Universal Weather

JANUARY 10, 2024

During peak hours (0900-2200 LCL) GA aircraft are limited to one movement per tail number (one arrival or one departure), and no quick turns are allowed. For exemption requests, CIQ reviews aircraft registration and all passenger/crew nationalities to make a determination if clearance and visas will be required or not.

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Universal Weather

MAY 9, 2023

Once the PPR is approved, you will receive a confirmation ID, which will be your tail number and date of operation. This confirmation number is the tail number plus the date of operation (e.g., Weather Weather is generally very good during the late November through early April high season. NXXXdatemonth).

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Universal Weather

JULY 5, 2023

Revisions to annual permits must be made for any changes regarding documentation, tail number, or modification of owner/address/name. CIQ clearance involves deplaning all passengers, crew, and luggage, which may be needed for inbound and outbound operations. CIQ clearance via a GAT or commercial terminal usually takes 30-45 minutes.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It was not an inspiring morning to fly out of Sodus, but I knew that the poor weather was localized to the Lake Ontario shore and that Washington DC was forecast to be sunny and significantly warmer. When I contacted Rochester Approach, the controller came back with, "Are you looking for your clearance to College Park?"

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

Long story short, when I received my clearance that evening, it was to my originally intended BELTS waypoint.) We had excellent weather for the trip to College Park and the scenery was beautiful as we flew through the Finger Lakes Region, across the ruffled landscape of central Pennsylvania, and into Maryland. En Route Seneca Lake.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I learned during the process that all Canadian IFR flight plans require an alternate airport regardless of weather conditions. In the US, the requirement to file an alternate is contingent on weather forecast within an hour of arrival at the destination as described by the “1-2-3 rule”. Delta was current at Kingston. How can that be?

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 5, 2023

Exceptions were 2013 (Pigeon Forge, TN) when I decided that my brand new instrument rating was not up to the challenge of fatigue and weather conditions, 2016 (Cadillac, MI) when thunderstorms and tornado warnings aborted that flight, and 2020 that simply did not happen because of COVID. We planned for a quick turn.

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AeroSavvy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Weather, earthquakes, and even volcanoes present logistical challenges. The map seems to indicate Hawaii might be a more efficient stop (certainly better weather). Atlas Air 747-400 & UPS MD-11 departing Anchorage runway 15 Anchorage Weather Geographically, Anchorage is the perfect location for a trans-Pacific pit stop.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

As our trip to Sleepy Hollow neared, forecasts for IFR weather inspired a shuffling of airplanes and pilots so that our seven adventurers were distributed among three IFR-capable airplanes with current IFR pilots. Once the rain relented, we staggered our departures and called for our IFR clearances on the ground.

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Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

But getting there from Rochester, NY is never a simple task and not only requires the runway to be open with favorable conditions, but the weather between here and there must be amenable to a six hour round trip there and back again. More vintage cred: a V-tailed Beechcraft Bonanza! Oh, because of the purple.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Upon completing his mission, Kidder requested a clearance to land over the radio, and received a vector heading and told by the controller he was only 15 miles from the base. They turned out to be from a weather outpost for the US Army Air Force’s 11th Weather Squadron, and that they were the only other people on the island.

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Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Clear weather, everything as usual, and the airfield quiet – just ourselves following a BA 747 to the runway. The controller anticipated a late landing clearance due to this aircraft in front. One associates this civil transport term with bad weather, and I had to think about what he meant, at first. He was not completely wrong.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Therefore it is common for flight delays in departure and arrival especially if the weather is bad. Anyway, fortunately for us, the ride into Delhi was smooth, hardly any turbulence and furthermore the Captain told us the good news and that is the stormy weather forecasted earlier had cleared. So overall, this flight was smooth.

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