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Flight Sims for the Win: It’s All About Repetition and Drill

Flying Magazine

If utilizing Runway 17 with left traffic, the crosswind turn will be heading 080, downwind 350, base 260, etc. Scenario 4: Crosswinds If only flight instructors could control the weather, we’d have the learners practicing crosswind takeoffs and landings on a regular basis. Next, introduce the VOR.

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How to Prepare for Your First Check Ride

Plane and Pilot

Some pilots discover they need extra practice with performance landings or more time mastering VOR navigation, for instance. The last thing you want is to be fighting a nasty crosswind while demonstrating a challenging performance landing to your examiner, for instance. It is up to you to make a go-no-go decision, so make a wise one.

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Biennial Flight Review Guide: Preparing for Success

Pilot's Life Blog

This may include normal and crosswind takeoffs and landings, stalls, steep turns, emergency procedures, and navigation exercises. Familiarity with navigation aids, such as VORs and GPS, is also important. The goal is to ensure that pilots are up-to-date with the knowledge required for safe flight operations.

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How to Fly the Perfect Holding Pattern (Entry, Wind Correction, etc.)

Pilot Institute

Most holding fixes are NAVAIDs such as VORs, RNAV (GPS) waypoints, and even ILS markers. When VORs are used as holding fixes, the fix is usually a specific DME distance on a particular radial. If the VOR doesn’t have DME capability, it will be the intersection between two radials from two separate VORs.

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Pointers for Packing Your First Flight Bag

Flying Magazine

For primary pilots, I like the manual E6-B because the wind side helps with visualization of crosswinds and learning about VORs. They come in an electronic form (think calculator on steroids) or the mechanical E6-B, which is a circular slide rule and looks intimidating until you realize the instructions for use are printed on it.

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What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack (Part II)

Air Facts

NTSB ERA22LA169 describes a funny engine noise that prompted an earlier than planned turn to crosswind for an anticipated return to the airport. If the runway could not be made my plan was to put the aircraft down in the field west of the airport close to the VOR. That return did not make it to the airport.

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Rubber bands – the reason I quit

Air Facts

The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. And then the landing near Palm Springs when I became a test pilot for the 182RG crosswind component. In spring of 1967 I soloed after eight hours of dual and received my ticket that fall. And that’s it isn’t it?

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