Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Ask the front porch gang at the local airport which is better, a “six-pack” full of traditional round dial instruments or a bright new glass cockpit screen, and the answers will be all over the map. So, the answer to the question— round dials or glass cockpit ?—is Round Dials or Glass Cockpits: Which Is Easier to Fly?

Cockpit 102

Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 102

iPad Pilot News

JANUARY 21, 2025

requests detailed information about your airplane’s navigation, communication, surveillance (transponder) and survival equipment. You can also use the “S” code if you have the standard configuration of VOR, VHF radio and ILS receiver.

Flight Plan 105

Flight Plan Transponder VOR Airplanes 105

AV Web

JULY 7, 2024

Had he investigated the cockpit of my ride, he might have noticed the ADSb capability, two electronic multi-function displays, the panel-mounted GPS backed up with an iPad using Foreflight driven by a Sentinel, and the rescue hand-held GPS in the glovebox. We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. I found his comment funny.

Cockpit 75

Cockpit Airplanes VOR Transponder 75

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For example: Pilot: Seattle Approach, Cessna November Four Five One Romeo, Two Zero miles west of Seattle VOR, at 8,000, with Sierra, to land. For example, ATC: Fly runway heading until two miles from Kennedy VOR, then turn right, heading one zero zero. Key in the code to your transponder so that ATC knows who you are.

Approach 52

Approach Clearance Pilot Air Traffic Control 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing. Flying within the SFRA, whether it is within the FRZ or not, requires all aircraft to broadcast an assigned transponder code. change the transponder to 1200) after terminating flight following or cancelling IFR. That cannot happen in the FRZ.

Transponder 52

Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52