Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Flight training doesn’t need to stop in the winter though; in fact the colder months provide some great opportunities to expand your knowledge on weather and aircraft operations in less than ideal conditions. Most modern training airplanes provide a comfortable, warm cabin up in the air, even as the temperature approaches 0° F outside.

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Weather Runway Airplanes Final Approach 52

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

I had already fueled and readied the Warrior for departure, it was just a matter of pulling her out of the hangar. When I tuned the AWOS (automated weather observation system) at Saratoga Springs, the transmitter broadcast a repeating statement about the AWOS being unavailable. (We Ground team!

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Approach Final Approach Airplanes 52

ABEAM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Weather was good along the way but the closer we got to our destination, the worse the weather below. At Shefferville , the weather was really bad in rain and landed via the RNP runway 17… the airport was completely empty ! We taxied to the whole other end of the airport to the FBO Hangar Q60 which served avgas.

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Weather Runway Airplanes Approach 52

NYC Aviation

JUNE 17, 2020

If you spend any amount of time planespotting at an airport , sharing photos on the NYCAviation Photo Hangar , combing through # AvGeek hashtagged conversations on Twitter or doing any other similar aircraft-centric activity, you’ve likely heard hundreds of aviation terms thrown around. It is accessible by both radio broadcast and telephone.

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

The aircraft was filled to full fuel and the pilot’s departure and flight to Murwillumbah was uneventful until the final approach to Murwillumbah. That day, the weather was clear with light wind. With a temperature of 26-27°C and dew point at 16.7, there was a high likelihood of carburettor icing.

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Threshold Runway Approach Pilot 62

Photographic Logbook

JULY 7, 2024

Kristy and I ended our first visit in 2016 prematurely due to ominous movement on a weather map. She had the students flying left handed patterns and directed me to enter on a right downwind where she expertly sequenced us into the conga line of piston aircraft queued up on final approach. We have arrived!"

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. Still the better part of an hour away from home, weather conditions were concerning.

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