iPad Pilot News
JANUARY 21, 2025
requests detailed information about your airplane’s navigation, communication, surveillance (transponder) and survival equipment. You can also use the “S” code if you have the standard configuration of VOR, VHF radio and ILS receiver. You can look up yourcode usingyour airplane’s N# on the FAA registry site.
Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
If you’re going into Class B airspace, the ADS-B Out has to be working; if staying outside the 30-mile veil, it doesn’texcept for FAR 91.215(c) , which says if your transponder equipment is operable, it has to be on. However, if your transponder’s certification has expired, you can’t operate the system.
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Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
V – VOR Check If you’re flying under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), your VOR navigation equipment must be tested every 30 days. Logging the VOR check in your maintenance records is a must for compliance. For instance, the transponder check is for clear communication with air traffic control.
Northstar VFR
AUGUST 25, 2024
V: VOR INSPECTION (FAR 91.171) For any flight operated under instrument flight rules (IFR) using a VOR navigation system, the VOR must be routinely checked/maintained, and an operational check performed within the previous 30 days.
Flying Magazine
MAY 13, 2024
Avoid this situation by sitting down with your CFI and going through the logbooks to verify the aircraft is airworthy, using the acronym AAV1ATE as your guide (ADs complied with, annual inspections, VOR every 30 days, 100-hour, altimeter/pitot static system every 24 calendar months, transponder every 24 calendar months, ELT check).
AV Web
JULY 7, 2024
I was trained and prepared to solo but did not have to take a written quiz, talk on the radio, know what a transponder was, or deal with a lot of aircraft systems knowledge. We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. Have you ever seen those power outlet plugs in an airplane cockpit that we plug our iPads into?
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. Based on our needs, we added an IFR GPS, an ADS-B In and Out transponder, and most recently a simple yet full-featured autopilot to our trusty Cessna Cardinal.
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