Flying Magazine
MAY 15, 2024
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.
Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
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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Pilot Institute
AUGUST 9, 2024
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.
Flying Magazine
MAY 9, 2024
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.
Air Facts
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
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.
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. 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?
Photographic Logbook
JULY 6, 2024
We were cleared direct to College Park via the Westminster VOR (EMI). dove for pattern altitude, and managed the noise sensitive areas around the airport as best we could by entering the pattern on a midfield crosswind for runway 33. Tough room. It was such a trivial change that it did not impact our inbound heading.
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