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

Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. We flew on top of a scattered turned broken layer having to descend through it to break out for the visual approach runway two-three into our fuel stop at Grand Strand KCRE. On departure I flew runway heading for a good distance. Ok, enough rambling.

Runway 105

Runway Approach Weather VOR 105

Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I completed my pre flight with only needing to sump fuel on departure day. My Garmin 480 is updated and I have my flight plan ready for entry after planning on Foreflight. After warming the oil I taxied for runway two and picked up my super secret squawk code to get out with the TFR in place. Saturday 11.4

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Approach Knot VOR Weather 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

New Adventures in Flight Planning and Filing I decided to test-drive my PIN and the whole FRZ process for the first time as my annual fall solo flight in October of 2023. Any flight into the FRZ requires a FRZ flight plan. Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing.

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To start our flying day I must stress the most important part of flight planning, ADM, Aeronautical Decision Making. It's now 7am and our planned departure time was 9am arriving just after noon. Most of the flight required a ten degree cut to maintain the planned course but at least the ride was smooth.

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Weather Clearance Approach VOR 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Tom and I filed via the Rockdale VOR, which was a starting point on the Nobbi Five arrival procedure used in the greater New York area. That was a good plan. Final, runway 34, photographed from Two Six Romeo. We were cleared to land number four on runway 34 and asked to keep our speed up to accommodate a Pilatus behind us.

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Clearance Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes 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 97