AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

What we do know (according to data posted on FlightAware and recorded ATC communications) is that the flight departed on May 15 just before 10:00 a.m. Presumably, the pilot was flying on an instrument flight plan, as the flight maintained a cruise altitude of 7,000 feet (and ADS-B groundspeed of 125 to 130 knots) until about 12:53 p.m.

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Tail Instrument Meteorological Conditions Knot Groundspeed 105

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A few hours later, the pilot obtained a weather briefing and filed an IFR flight plan before departing Westchester to fly back to Montgomery County. The pilot was instrument rated and the flight was on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan: that is, they did not have to stay visual for the flight.

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AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

What we do know (according to data posted on FlightAware and recorded ATC communications) is that the flight departed on May 15 just before 10:00 am local time from Gonzales, Louisiana, (KREG), bound for Louisville, Kentucky. The pilot’s adult twin son and daughter were on board and also died in the tragic crash. This all unraveled quickly.

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Tail Instrument Meteorological Conditions Knot Groundspeed 98

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Maybe it’s the Georgia flying weather, or maybe it’s the ever-increasing emphasis on “old” pilot instead of “bold” pilot, but it seems that flight planning these days is a lot more about if and when than about route and altitude. It’s only two hours by RV-9A, but there are gotchas lurking in the flight planning.

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Airplanes Weather Ceiling Turbulence 90

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The latest version of the app is extremely versatile, providing all the digital resources a student pilot needs when learning to fly a Cessna 172, while simultaneously offering a Gulfstream pilot advanced flight planning and international resources needed to fly from New York to London.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In part two of AeroTime’s ‘ Anatomy of a commercial airline flight – all you ever wanted to know ’, we will examine the subsequent stages of your flight, from the cruise to descent and deceleration as you approach your destination and culminating in the landing and lastly, arrival at your gate.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, during the descent on an ILS approach, you encounter VMC prior to reaching the initial approach fix. To log the approach toward instrument currency the flight must remain on an IFR flight plan throughout the approach and landing. For a flight in VFR conditions while on an IFR flight plan.

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Air Facts

JULY 31, 2024

I communicated my intentions and began my descent. As I began my descent back into Lanseria International Airport, I felt a renewed sense of purpose and accomplishment. This flight had tested my limits, but it had also reaffirmed my passion for aviation. This flight was no different. The landing was rough.

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Turbulence Weather Approach Descent 97

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Flight training usually consists of ground school and practical flight instruction. Ground school provides the required knowledge in areas such as aircraft systems, aviation weather, flight planning, navigation, FAA regulations, and radio communications. Navigation : Planning and going on cross-country flights.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Flight idle and nose down, which normally produced a 2,000-3,000-feet descent rate, resulted in a 2,000-feet-per-minute climb. We continued our descent into Great Falls, leaving “the wave” behind and above. Our return flight was by a safer, much smoother route. I said to my first officer, “Ask for lower.

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Turbulence Weather Knot Descent 95

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2024

VNAV adds automated vertical guidance to approaches, reducing pilot workload during descents. It calculates a descent route to maintain a stable approach from the initial approach fix to touchdown. With the right equipment, you can make good decisions during flight planning and be ready for the approaches available at your destination.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 4, 2023

Flight planning becomes more advanced than before, flying SIDs and STARs, and instrument approaches. But a crucial part of this flight planning is planning for the worst case scenario: What if you can’t land at your original destination? When MUST I Plan for an Alternate?

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Ceiling Approach Weather 52

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Air Navigation Pro This flight planning and GPS navigation app is designed for VFR pilots and offers international support, including charts for the US, Europe, South America and more. Embraer Aircraft Services A complete line of apps to assist operators of Embraer aircraft with support and services, performance and flight planning.

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Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes 91

Jetwhine

JUNE 10, 2024

For example, making the transition from old school paper and pencil cross-country flight planning for Task D. My assessment was going well until the Emergency Operation Area of Operation dredged up no memory of Emergency Descents or Emergency Approaches and Landings. There’s two more for the schooling list.

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Checkride Airplanes Descent Flight Plan 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Narrow runway: Feels higher than you are, leading to a steep descent and faster landing. Here are the most common ones: Runway Width Illusion Wide runway: Feels lower than you are, causing you to pitch up and risk stalling. Sloping Runway Illusion Upsloping runway: Feels high, causing a low approach and risk of terrain collision.

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Runway Instrument Meteorological Conditions Approach Airplanes 52

AV Web

JANUARY 8, 2025

An additional consideration exists for aircraft cruising in the flight levels. Most flight planning software will calculate the 30-45 minutes required at planned cruise flight, when more than likely you will not reach those same altitudes during a diversion. Reserve 45 minutes 13 11.5

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Payload Airplanes Approach Descent 105

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Before heading to the plane, you might have a chance to cover basic principles of flight, and will certainly discuss current weather conditions, safety protocols, and the days flight plan. This hands-on process involves using a standardized checklist to examine the aircraft with the aim of ensuring flight safety.

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Rudder Descent Pilot Runway 97

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

It is not uncommon for air traffic control to pose this question to pilots on IFR flight plans approaching certain airports when the weather is VFR. Courtesy: Jeppesen] Visual into KTEB One of the first guided visual approaches was created for the descent to Runway 1 at Teterboro Airport ( KTEB ) in New Jersey.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

For cross-country flights that involve going to an airport at least 50 nm away, you will budget more time. Your first lesson will likely be heading out to the local practice area (your instructor knows where that is) to learn how to do climbs, turns, and descents. You want the room to make mistakes.

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Flight Training Central

JULY 26, 2024

From NASA’s Aviation Reporting System, CALLBACK Flying…on an IFR flight plan last night, it was overcast at 12,000 feet and very dark.… The horizon came back into view, I stopped the descent, added power, and began to climb. I had descended from 8,000 feet and was level at 3,000 feet. Check your altitude.”

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Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

However, there was a presidential TFR (temporary flight restriction) around Scranton that lay on a direct line between Sodus and Philly. It added less than 10 minutes to the overall flight time. The reroute was minimal, an insertion of Yardley VOR (ARD) into my flight plan. Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the gloom.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Put the aircraft in level flight to give them a moment to consider their next course of action so they are not anxiously doing climbs, descents, and unplanned turns. Have the learner go through a flight from start-up to shutdown using the GPS. Keep it realistic. Should they hold?

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Crosswind Airplanes VOR Runway 105

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Additionally, a pilot should report any of the following events:: When vacating any previously assigned altitude or flight level for a newly assigned altitude or flight level ( AIM 5-3-3 ) When an altitude change will be made if operating on a clearance specifying VFR-on-top. ( AIM 5-3-3 ) When an approach has been missed. (

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 15, 2024

This online course includes nine end-to-end flights that explain and demonstrate some overlooked IFR procedures, going far beyond the basics of approaches and holding patterns.

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Pilot Approach VFR On Top Clearance 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

New Adventures in Flight Planning and Filing I decided to test-drive my PIN and the whole FRZ process for the first time as my annual fall solo flight in October of 2023. Any flight into the FRZ requires a FRZ flight plan. For the most part, the process was quick and easy. But no ice formed that morning.

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Air Facts

MAY 29, 2024

This, by the way, was the only country on our entire trip where prior permission to land was rerequired other than by filing a flight plan from the country of departure. It is 75 miles inland from the coast and it is a continuous descent to the field, which is set at the end of one of the numerous fjords of the land.

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Northstar VFR

JANUARY 21, 2024

I’m pretty close to the airport so I have time to enjoy a coffee, flight plan and then get ready. My flight plan and performance numbers are all electronically uploaded to the computer system on the plane. After briefing the approach, we start our descent down. It’s a pretty easy turn, just over 2 hours each way.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Flight and Weather Concerns The date is July 8, 2009, and the day was already hot by mid-morning in McKinney, Texas. The pilot had already filed an IFR flight plan to Tampa, Florida, and reviewed the weather reports. The aircraft began a rapid descent, and ATC suggested turning around. But it was too late.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I logged the information of my flight from Lawson Army Airfield (KLSF) at Fort Benning, Georgia, where I was stationed, to Newnan-Coweta County Airport (KCCO), then to Alexander City, Alabama (KALX), and back to Lawson. Filing a flight plan was not necessary, but I logged it on the clubhouse flight board.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Once we entered the clouds during our descent, we encountered some bad turbulence including a sudden rise and drop and that made some of us go "wooooo" and I even had to hang on to the seat in front of me! Was the turbulence as bad as my BOA (VVI-GRU) flight? Singapore Airline's IFE system is one of the best out there.

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Fly with Eva

MARCH 20, 2018

Flashes of previous 737 experience, flight training, moving all over the planet, Phoenix, Girona, Rome, Barcelona, Hong Kong, manuals, operating procedures and limitations. I see my name on the crew list, I sign in and read the flight plan, notams and weather. Descent briefing, approach briefing, and down we go.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

During flight planning, I determined that 8,000 feet would provide the best wind advantage of the available preferred westbound IFR cruise altitudes. Given my off-season arrival, I made sure that all places I intended to visit were actually open while flight planning. It must have been the mutton chops.

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Runway Approach Knot Drag 82

Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

After 11 hours of flight during our descent to initiate an approach, the airport closed for Category I (CAT I) approaches due to weather. We decided to divert to our alternate airport and landed safely as previously planned. Im not sure Id call that a deviation, since it was on the filed flight plan.

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Weather Approach Descent Runway 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Our trusty Continentals or Lycomings do well in cold climates as long as we warm up the engine fully before takeoff, manage the cowl flaps smartly, and avoid shock cooling in idle descents. Roughly translated, it says when three significant risk factors are present during a flight, we might need to rethink our flight plan.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 105

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 8, 2024

For the in-flight meals, I had almost the same meal from the menu but it was not filling and to be honest, I tasted better business class breakfast meals than this. I find it strange that LATAM does not offer WIFI on their aircraft at that time, maybe in the near future, but their entertainment system is descent.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Our trusty Continentals or Lycomings do well in cold climates as long as we warm up the engine fully before takeoff, manage the cowl flaps smartly, and avoid shock cooling in idle descents. Roughly translated, it says when three significant risk factors are present during a flight, we might need to rethink our flight plan.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 96

Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

While viewing maps, pilots can touch anywhere to open a radial menu with options for accessing additional airport, weather, or airspace information, or quickly adjusting a flight plan via graphical editing. Garmin’s terminal safety solutions add even more capabilities to G3000 PRIME-equipped aircraft.

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