Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

An instrument rating unlocks access to: Airports with IFR approaches (ILS, RNAV, VOR, etc.) Better stick-and-rudder control, smoother handling, and more exact navigation, even during VFR flights. Access More Airports and Airspace Want to fly into a destination with unpredictable weather? A busy Class B airport? The result?

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Pilot Weather Approach Visual Flight Rules 52

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Heading Indicator should not be confused with the Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI), which is an evolution of the Heading Indicator that includes VHF Omnidirectional Range (VOR) and Instrument Landing System (ILS) indications. This ball is located in a tube filled with fluid and can move freely to the right and left.

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Pitot Tube Altimeter Instrument Flight Rules Descent 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

READ MORE: Cirrus Adds Second Vision Jet Simulator In this scenario, the options are a 180-degree turn using only rudder to avoid overbanking—common when you lose the outside horizon reference—to get back to VFR conditions or contacting ATC to ask where the nearest VFR is. Next, introduce the VOR.

Crosswind 105

Crosswind Airplanes VOR Runway 105

Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

After startup, I’d record a VOR check in the aircraft log while waiting for our clearance. Rolling down the runway with reference only to my DG, I’d make minor heading corrections with the rudder to remain centered. We flew the usual approaches: VOR, ILS, and the now extinct NDB. Then came the long taxi to the runway.

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NDB Checkride VOR Approach 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. When power was added, there were brief pitch oscillations before the plane departed the left side of the runway, as if P-factor and lack of right rudder input were present.

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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 98

Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. Rudder stomping landings in the Cessna 180 that hated to stay in a straight line on the ground. In spring of 1967 I soloed after eight hours of dual and received my ticket that fall. First loop in the Citabria.

Pilot 52

Pilot General Aviation VOR Cockpit 52

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

We were at the top of Hudson’s Bay, out of range of Churchill VOR, CAVU with a beautiful moon, looking to pick up the dual NDBs – one on each side of the channel – to check our position, but couldn’t receive either one. It was an extremely cold night (–20°F on the ground). We tried and tried, but no joy. there was 40 on the DME.

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Pilot Runway NOTAMs TWR 40