Air Facts

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I assessed my personal condition and noted I was tired, but a short flight and get-home-it-is grabbed me (mistake #3). The Flight Plan I filed an IFR flight plan, KAZO-GIJ-OXI-MAPPS-EON-JOT-ILS2L-KDPA, then VFR to my homebase, 06C. As I crossed the runway threshold, it was solid IMC and I had to go missed.

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Ceiling Weather AGL Approach 90

Air Facts

MARCH 5, 2025

He then returned to Vance to conduct landings from the T-38 overhead pattern on our westernmost runway (17R); thats when the wheels came off. Approximately half way down the runway, you execute a level, 60-degree bank, 180 o turn while reducing power and lowering the speed-brakes to arrive on the inside downwind.

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Pilot Knot AGL Approach 98

AV Web

OCTOBER 5, 2024

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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Pilot Descent Knot Runway 119

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These commonly missed questions often focus on nuanced regulations, meteorology, flight planning, and airspace rules. Extending the flaps: Allows for more stable control in a slow flight condition Increases the stalling speed Lowers the stalling speed Correct! What is the purpose of the runway/runway hold position sign?

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Density Altitude Aileron Pilot Drag 98

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Though its rare, your destination airport could become unusable due to a thunderstorm moving in, or a disabled airplane on the runway. IFR Alternate Airport Planning While every IFR flight requires you to file an IFR flight plan and receive an ATC clearance, not every flight is flown in IFR conditions.

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Ceiling Weather Approach Flight Plan 52

Air Facts

MARCH 14, 2025

Call it a bucket list if you want, but I consider it a flight plan for a fulfilling life in the cockpit: 1. 100 hamburger flight. Flying through featureless gray clouds for an hour and then seeing the runway lights appear in the windshield is a high that most drugs cannot match. It’s just about magic.

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Airplanes Pilot Pilot in Command Approach 98

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 18, 2025

A random airliner doesnt often call up for push and taxi without an associated flight plan, and to do so with a desire to taxi around the airport for 10-15 minutes is even more unusual. Wings for All gave participants a reasonable expectation of what they would experience on an actual flight.

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Runway Airplanes Flight Deck Pilot 68

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. I turned base early, slipped the RV-9A as hard as it would go, landed halfway down the runway, and stood on the brakes.

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Weather Runway Knot Rudder 74

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 27, 2024

While the aircraft was being given taxi clearance, there was a minor misunderstanding, which wasn’t a big deal (but I still think it’s important context, since the Aeromexico pilot is in the wrong here): ATC: “Aeromexico 401, cross runway 31R at echo, follow the 777 ANA on charlie.” ATC: “It’s not 13R, it’s 31R or 13L.”

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Air Traffic Control Pilot Clearance Runway 126

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The latest version of the app is extremely versatile, providing all the digital resources a student pilot needs when learning to fly a Cessna 172, while simultaneously offering a Gulfstream pilot advanced flight planning and international resources needed to fly from New York to London.

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Pilot Weather Flight Plan Approach 105

Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For a flight under IFR or a flight not in the vicinity of an airport, weather reports and forecasts, fuel requirements, alternatives available if the planned flight cannot be completed , and any known traffic delays of which the pilot in command has been advised by ATC.

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Ceiling Pilot Weather Approach 98

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

The package features an interactive navigation system (INAV), which allows a pilot to select and click flight plan-specific options within the flight management system (FMS). The Apex includes the INAV as well as on-screen graphical flight planning, dual FMS with coupled VNAV, WAAS with LPV capability, and synthetic vision.

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Cockpit Weight-Shift-Control Flight Deck Instrument Meteorological Conditions 40

Professional Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

By combining real-time sensor inputs with advanced visual modeling, the SVS highlights runway markers, lead-ins, and airport domes. Paired with the EVS-3000 enhanced flight vision system (EFVS), the avionics deliver real-time imagery of runway lighting, terrain, and obstacles.

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Flight Deck Jet Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) Runway 75

Flight Training Central

AUGUST 12, 2024

Runway lengths, obstacle avoidance, restricted airspace, plus much more all provide bits of data that will keep you informed and safe on every flight. Share your results : Facebook Facebook Twitter Google+ Want to brush up on your flight planning skills? Facebook Facebook Just tell us who you are to view your results !

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AGL NOTAMs Runway Flight Plan 105

Flightworx

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

From the critical steps of flight plan filing and securing landing permits to the practicalities of fuel management, airport fees, and navigating customs and immigration, we will explore the facets that make private jet travel in the UK both a privilege and a responsibility. Don’t leave access to chance.

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Runway Jet Fixed Base Operator Flight Plan 52

Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

Flight canceled. Youll be able to file an IFR flight plan and safely depart, fly through, and arrive in conditions that would otherwise ground a VFR-only pilot. Increase Your Flight Efficiency and Routing Options IFR flight plans allow you to take more efficient, higher-priority routes, especially when crossing busy corridors.

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Pilot Weather Approach Visual Flight Rules 52

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A few hours later, the pilot obtained a weather briefing and filed an IFR flight plan before departing Westchester to fly back to Montgomery County. The pilot was instrument rated and the flight was on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan: that is, they did not have to stay visual for the flight.

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Approach Runway Air Traffic Control Descent 97

Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

We started up the engine, got the weather, asked the tower for our instrument flight plan, and began to taxi from the T-hangars on the east side of the field down the familiar route of “Hotel, Echo” to runway 18 right for a departure to the north with a turn to the east. Approach switched me to Tower.

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Aileron Crosswind Knot Runway 98

Fear of Landing

JUNE 28, 2024

Then he filled out a flight plan with their intended route to head to Jaunpass – Lenk – Col du Pillon – Aigle – Lausanne and then back to Gruyére. At about 50 meters (165 feet) above the ground, the pilot turned left, planning to fly over the grass runway as the start of his routing.

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Rudder Tail Lift Knot 111

AV Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

I’d yet to land on that fabled grass runway, the Augusta National of general aviation, and this would be the year. I’d actually filed to fly to Anderson, South Carolina, on an instrument flight plan, figuring that I’d cancel IFR and continue past Anderson to the destination. Except it wasn’t meant to be.

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Weather Runway Ceiling Lift 98

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

READ MORE: Healthy Obsession: What Flight Sim Has Done for Me Pro tip: If the ATD does not have side-view screens, the CFI should remind the learner that each turn they make will be in 90-degree increments. If utilizing Runway 17 with left traffic, the crosswind turn will be heading 080, downwind 350, base 260, etc. It’s an ATD.

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Crosswind Airplanes VOR Runway 105

Air Facts

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Now, instead of showing up in flight ops and finding my flight planning had all been done for me by my dispatcher, I was now the dispatcher. KMPO is an non-towered field as are several other places I fly to and from on an IFR flight plan. My learning curve was not steep , it was vertical!

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Clearance Airplanes Annual Inspection Pilot 96

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Air Navigation Pro This flight planning and GPS navigation app is designed for VFR pilots and offers international support, including charts for the US, Europe, South America and more. Embraer Aircraft Services A complete line of apps to assist operators of Embraer aircraft with support and services, performance and flight planning.

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Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes 91

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Instead, I planned to take an Uber from the FBO to the funeral home and back. I launched from runway 10 right at 7:00 am, climbing eastbound toward the crimson sunrise before turning on course. I turned downwind for runway 27 at the Dowagiac Municipal Airport (C91) and found myself in light rain with the sun at my back.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

I am a member of the FlyOz Flight Club in Bentonville (KVBT). The flight plan was for KVBT to KSUS for our B-29 ride. Once the fog lifted, we departed KVBT on an IFR flight plan. Two F/A-18 Hornets, the Blue Angels, on low approach, sped towards the runway on final.

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Approach General Aviation AGL Weather 98

Gary's Flight Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

I did a quick flight plan and was looking at just under a half hour trip each way. Once warmed up I taxied for runway one-four and was number two for departure. I followed Charles in his Piper 140 to runway one-nine and completed my run up. We agreed to meet at noon in Cape May NJ. Charles was rolling and I held short.

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Runway Pilot Weather Flight Plan 68

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Note that because of current LSA rules, the RV-12 can be flown on an instrument flight plan but cannot be flown in actual instrument conditions. So the temptation is to fly too fast and float down the runway, which the RV-12 will do for quite some distance. Van’s offers three iterations of non-Trainer models as well.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 98

Universal Weather

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Ramp congestion also occurs at smaller destinations such as popular Nevis (TKPN) , with its 4,003-foot runway, and smaller outer islands in the Bahamas. Parking and access challenges During high season, GA access to many destinations becomes more challenging, with additional trip planning lead time recommended.

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NOTAMs Fixed Base Operator Clearance General Aviation 52

iPad Pilot News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This includes new flight training scenarios developed in collaboration with Sporty’s , new curated challenges, SimBrief integration, a reworked Cessna 208 Caravan, Human ATC and more. Infinite Flight plans to continually develop the Missions page and keep the user flying in rare scenarios. Let’s dive right in.

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Flight Plan Pilot Airplanes Approach 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Runway incursions are caused by lapses in awareness and communication. Its key elements include: Upwind leg: After takeoff, you fly straight out, climbing away from the runway. Crosswind leg: You turn 90 degrees to the upwind leg, flying perpendicular to the runway. Determining the Active Runway Where is the active runway based?

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Pilot Runway Air Traffic Control Approach 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2024

That’s because each one assists you in navigating to the runway based on the weather and your aircraft equipment. When flying an LPV approach, your GPS provides accurate vertical and lateral guidance as low as 200 feet above the runway. Why do pilots need different types of approach guidance? How does LPV offer ILS-like accuracy?

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Approach Descent Weather VOR 52

Northstar VFR

JUNE 22, 2023

If hazardous weather exists or is to be expected, it’s best not to conduct the flight. Depending on whether you’re flying on an instrument flight plan, or just going VFR and burning holes in the sky, a different fuel requirement must be met. This allows a pilot to plan ahead for any delays that might occur. It states, “.other

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Gross Weight Runway Weather Pilot in Command 52

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

However, there was a presidential TFR (temporary flight restriction) around Scranton that lay on a direct line between Sodus and Philly. It added less than 10 minutes to the overall flight time. The reroute was minimal, an insertion of Yardley VOR (ARD) into my flight plan. Runway and raindrops.

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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 69

Pilot Institute

MAY 25, 2024

A Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) is active. An airport has closed a runway/taxiway/apron for maintenance. A Real-Life Example Pilots who do not review NOTAMS before flight put themselves (and others) in danger. He landed on a closed turf runway, causing the aircraft to nose over. a closed runway has been reopened).

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NOTAMs UTC Runway Federal Aviation Regulations 52

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

This is where the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS) guides your flight planning. SID (Intl, Amílcar Cabral, Cape Verde) offers a long runway and is a good technical stop on this route. Corporate and cargo operators will have different schedules, but need to consider this as it affects their flight planning.

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Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

This is where the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS) guides your flight planning. SID (Intl, Amílcar Cabral, Cape Verde) offers a long runway and is a good technical stop on this route. Corporate and cargo operators will have different schedules, but need to consider this as it affects their flight planning.

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Jet Weather True Airspeed Turbulence 98

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

My instructor for the day walked me through the preflight checklist and discussed the plan for our flight while encouraging me to ask any and all questions I had. Once we were ready, we started up, and the instructor radioed the tower before taxiing to the runway. Dont worry if it feels overwhelming.

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Rudder Descent Pilot Runway 97