Descent NDB Pilot 
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Theyre officially called Instrument Approach Procedure (or IAP) charts, but pilots often casually call them approach plates. The descent profile. As a pilot flying this approach, you need to know where to look for the right information at the right time. This perspective makes the descent path easier to understand.
Air Facts
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Air Facts Journal I got my pilot’s license in 1984, but it was another five years before I became a pilot. Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. We flew the usual approaches: VOR, ILS, and the now extinct NDB.
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