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Quiz: Flight Planning with Sporty’s E6B

Flight Training Central

It will assist with flight planning questions and you can bring your electronic E6B into the testing center to use during the actual test. The electronic E6B is equally useful when in the airplane, to help determine actual winds aloft, true airspeed, fuel burn, and descent planning. 926 175 167 Correct! knots Correct!

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Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights

iPad Pilot News

These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. AGL (or when AGL is unknown), the descent rate exceeds 4,000 ft. AGL and the descent rate exceeds 3,000 ft. AGL, the descent rate is between 3000 ft. per minute. When at 2,500 ft.

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Intolerable Risk: Dangerous Design behind the Washington DC Mid-Air Collision

Fear of Landing

At the same time, they released an an urgent recommendation report calling for the FAA to close the helicopter route that the military helicopter was following whenever runway 33 is in use. This report shows that the separation between the aviation traffic for runway 33 and helicopters on route 4 was dangerously tight.

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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know: Part one  

Aerotime

Michael Derrer Fuchs / Shutterstock Once the pushback is complete and the engines are running, the crew will contact ATC again for taxi clearance, effectively asking the tower for the route they are required to follow and which taxiways to use to reach the active runway.

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Pilots On Ground Coach Passenger In Landing King Air

AV Web

A passenger took control of a King Air C90 from its incapacitated pilot over southern California on Friday and managed to put it safely on a runway at at Meadows Field in Bakersfield. The plane ran off the end of the runway but was undamaged and no one was injured. bound for Monterey, California.

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My Near Death Experience

Air Facts

A pit stop at North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (KCRE) was planned, and after a weather briefing, I filed an IFR flight plan. I requested a descent from 6,000’ down to 4,000’ and was denied due to traffic. I began a rapid descent from 3,000’ down to the 2,000’ for the IAF. We were wheels up around 1:30pm.

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The Different Types of Spatial Disorientation

Pilot Institute

They are: Runway Width Sloping Runway Sloping Terrain Black Hole Approach Autokinetic Illusion False Horizon Vection Illusion Let’s look at each one in detail. Aerial Perception Illusions Pilots use a mental image of a “normal” runway to judge their approach.

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