Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Are you curious about flying a VOR approach? If you’re aiming to master instrument-rated flying, it’d be valuable to learn about VOR approaches. We’ll cover what a VOR approach is, how to fly it step-by-step, and even whether GPS can replace it in today’s navigation. Ready to make VOR approaches easy?

VOR 52

VOR Approach Descent Final Approach 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Subscribe Now Featured A) Two Radials Depicted From the STL VOR, there are two radials depicted that intersect with the final approach path—the R-144 and the R-194. Transitioning from the TOY VOR is also a heavy line radial along the R-261 and notes that no procedure turn would be needed (NoPT).

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VOR Final Approach Approach NDB 59

ABEAM

JULY 5, 2024

Hurghada Approach passed us off to Cairo Control and they refused to give us a direct to the first Saudi VOR WEJ at the east side of the Red Sea due to unknown reasons. We coasted into mainland of Saudi-Arabia near the WEJ VOR and continued onwards to Al Ula. And then we droned on from VOR to VOR over the desert.

VOR 52

VOR Density Altitude Approach Final Approach 52

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

Even though I was likely to be cleared through the outer ring by ATC (air traffic control) while on an instrument flight plan, I filed a route from Sodus to the Williamsport VOR (FQM) that circumvented the TFR entirely. 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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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 97

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

ADFs, marker beacons, and VOR receivers, each relying on a constantly shrinking population of land-based navaids, fill these dated flight decks. Or maybe I just like the round dial airspeed indicator, conveniently located at the top left of the panel, right in my field of view, as I make a left turn to base or final approach.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 92

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Key Differences Between MDA, DA, and DH (Decision Height) There are two kinds of minimum altitudes for two kinds of approaches: MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude) : Used in non-precision approaches like VOR or some GPS approaches. DA (Decision Altitude) : Used in precision approaches like ILS.

Altimeter 52

Altimeter Descent Approach Runway 52

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

If the runway could not be made my plan was to put the aircraft down in the field west of the airport close to the VOR. Weeks prior to the incident I had flown many approaches in IMC in which IMC was maintained at and beyond the FAF.” The turn to final started at roughly 50 feet when the plane was already over the runway, or nearly.

Gross Weight 98

Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 98