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How to Choose the Best Alternate Airport for Your IFR Flight: A Pilot’s Guide

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Though its rare, your destination airport could become unusable due to a thunderstorm moving in, or a disabled airplane on the runway. Drag the time slider to your planned arrival time and zoom in on your destination to see the forecast ceilings. In ForeFlight, enter your basic flight plan information, and then tap the Alternate field.

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How to Choose the Best Alternate Airport: A Guide for Instrument Pilots

Flight Training Central

Though it’s rare, your destination airport could become unusable due to a thunderstorm moving in, or a disabled airplane on the runway. Drag the time slider to your planned arrival time and zoom in on your destination to see the forecast ceilings. This provides a model-based forecast for the entire U.S.,

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The Key West of Ohio

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West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. Closer to South Bass Island, the Put-In-Bay Airport (runways 3-21) appeared along the southeastern shore. I turned toward the morning sun to fly south of South Bass Island, descend to pattern altitude, and enter the pattern for runway 21.

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