Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To review, flying an IFR trip involves four main steps: File a flight plan (either with Flight Service or in an aviation app). Call for your IFR clearance, including route, altitude, and transponder code. At the end of the flight, cancel IFR (either after landing or when the destination airport is in sight).

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 18, 2024

There are different requirements if the flight is operated under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) or Visual Flight Rules (VFR). For example, a pilot flying IFR in controlled airspace will have to file an IFR flight plan and receive an ATC clearance.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Communication and Coordination ATC services are generally available to IFR and VFR flight operations throughout most of the country—so use them for most flights. But too few pilots leverage air traffic control when outside of these requirement areas, though its services are broadly available.

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Flight Training Central

JUNE 17, 2024

“Nashville Approach, Cessna 12345, three miles south of Lebanon at five-thousand, five-hundred VFR to Myrtle Beach, request flight following with hand-offs.” If ATC is able to accommodate your request, your next transmission will likely be a transponder “squawk” code. What are some Do’s and Don’ts of flight following?

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Flexair

JULY 3, 2024

Practical Applications in Aviation Using the Phonetic Alphabet in Flight Operations The phonetic alphabet is used in various flight operations, including communicating tail numbers, flight plans, and coordinates. It ensures that information is transmitted accurately, reducing the risk of errors.

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Flight Training Central

APRIL 29, 2024

Special flight rules provide for general aviation operations within the area. Before entering the airspace, you must file and activate a flight plan and contact ATC for a transponder code. SFRA flight plan. This is in addition to any traditional flight plan that the pilot would normally file.

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Inflight Pilot Training

APRIL 16, 2024

You’ll need both US and Canadian charts for your flight, and all flights from Canada to a foreign state, like the US, must be detailed in a flight plan. Be sure to check the Canadian Aviation Regulations ( SOR/96-433 ) for details on filing a flight plan. Upon returning to the U.S., arrival.

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iPad Pilot News

APRIL 9, 2024

Take a look at these from time to time to make sure they’re representative of how you’re actually flying the airplane so that you continue to get accurate performance planning numbers before takeoff.

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Universal Weather

APRIL 9, 2024

be equipped with an appropriate transponder with ADS-B Out capabilities that performs to the Minimum Operational Performance Standards of RTCA DO-260B, or newer; and have antenna capability for broadcast toward both ground-based as well as space-based ADS-B receivers.

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Aerotime

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Russian jets, reportedly engaged in a military exercise with naval ships in the Baltic Sea, had their transponders switched off and ignored radio communications, a Luftwaffe spokesperson told Bild. This interception was part of the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission. Die Piloten der Su verhielten sich unkooperativ aber nicht aggressiv.

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