Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I’d get a full flight briefing, regardless of the weather. After startup, I’d record a VOR check in the aircraft log while waiting for our clearance. We flew the usual approaches: VOR, ILS, and the now extinct NDB. I thought flying in the weather was easier; even Charlie seemed more subdued in the soup.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Flight dispatchers also communicate with pilots and update them about weather, turbulence, and other variables that could affect their flight. Your shift will begin with you gathering the current and forecasted weather for the day. The weather is used to plan the route, calculate the cruising altitude, and more.

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WayMan

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

For example, “Fly runway heading to 3,000 feet, then DIRECT XYZ VOR.” For Instrument Flight Rules, these minimums that are maintained especially under adverse weather conditions allow safe flight along the takeoff path without risk from either terrain or obstacles.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. Still the better part of an hour away from home, weather conditions were concerning.

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Aviators of Tomorrow

JUNE 13, 2023

Here are some crucial steps to follow: a) Check Weather Conditions: Stay updated on current and forecasted weather conditions along your route. Unfavorable weather can significantly impact your flight, so it’s crucial to assess conditions and plan accordingly. Can I fly cross-country without GPS navigation?

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Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. Once south of Myrtle Beach I was turned direct Charleston VOR. The weather is perfect with a cool breeze as we searched for sone late lunch. Wednesday 5/1 I’m up early and as all pilots do, I’m checking weather for our return home. What a nice guy.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Look at your surrounding weather. If these conditions don’t exist in your area, look at a weather depiction chart and find the closest IFR conditions. Practice your scan along with GPS or VOR tracking while flying in actual. You’ll want to be sure you’re with an experienced instructor who’s done it before.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One rule is to allow plenty of planning time, consider alternates even in good weather, and accept the fact that the best option very well could be to fly another day. MOCAs are lower altitudes that provide the same assurance of obstacle clearance as an MEA but only guarantee navigation coverage within 22nm of the VOR.

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Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

This can be for spacing or other reasons, such as waiting for adverse weather conditions to pass. Most holding fixes are NAVAIDs such as VORs, RNAV (GPS) waypoints, and even ILS markers. When VORs are used as holding fixes, the fix is usually a specific DME distance on a particular radial.

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AV Web

JULY 7, 2024

We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. Weather, especially dangerous weather, was an unseen and sometimes surprising thing before we could access and watch it on a screen in our humble general aviation spam cans. Have you ever seen those power outlet plugs in an airplane cockpit that we plug our iPads into?

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Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

This year, a promising weather forecast featuring high freezing levels (expected to be 9,000+ feet) led to a decision to fly myself. The day before departure, satisfied that days of consistent weather forecasts reasonably assured a successful flight, I cancelled the rental car reservation. Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the gloom.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

The weather can change, and approach equipment can fail. ATIS broadcasts usually include active runways, available approaches, important NOTAMs, and the weather. Get the destination weather as soon as possible. Use the weather (along with the NOTAMs) to ensure your chosen approach is still the best choice.

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Gary's Flight Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

The Weather Watch Some of my go to weather pages have changed or gone away but I have been working on some new to me weather tools for my cross country flight planning. I always use Foreflights Imagery and MOS on the weather selection along with Windy, Aviation Weather Center, Weather Underground.

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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. If you learned to fly on glass panels, as so many students do today, transitioning back to the traditional round dials, especially IFR in the weather, is similar to mastering the tailwheel.

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Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I've been going through weather updates and long range forecasts for the last two weeks along with reviewing approaches and alternates for our flight. For now we are on hold until the weather opens up a bit to allow a safe departure and a better chance at returning if needed. The MOS weather shows rain ending by 8am, we shall see.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

From entry and weather requirements to interacting with ATC, we have you covered. If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS). Weather Requirements We find the VFR weather requirements in 14 CFR § 91.155. Terrain or weather around the airspace can add time and fuel consumption.

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Northstar VFR

MAY 19, 2024

It’s helpful when ground school content and flying skills tie in together, such as learning VOR navigation. Early in your flight training you’ll learn so many new skills that are affected by weather, wind, and aerodynamic principles. This will require some knowledge refreshing before the checkride day.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

For primary pilots, I like the manual E6-B because the wind side helps with visualization of crosswinds and learning about VORs. You will also be writing down things in the cockpit—for example, the information from the automated weather. You will use the E6-B during your knowledge test.

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Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Weather Outlook The weather watch starts two weeks in advance for any of our adventures. As we approached Barrett’s Mountain VOR you could make out the mountains ahead. Reservations have been made, the estate tour is booked, rental car locked in, and hangar space secured. The whole process has become second nature. Saturday 11.4

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When controllers anticipate a delay at a clearance limit or fix, usually due to a high volume of traffic, weather, or both, pilots are usually issued a holding clearance. If the holding pattern assigned by ATC is charted, pilots are expected to hold as indicated.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The instructor wrote, “As far as my proficiency with the existing weather conditions, I was comfortable, current, and proficient. 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. The scenario was that the pilot was returning due to weather.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

We had excellent weather for the trip to College Park and the scenery was beautiful as we flew through the Finger Lakes Region, across the ruffled landscape of central Pennsylvania, and into Maryland. Proceeding into Pennsylvania, we saw obvious examples of the terrain manufacturing weather. En Route Seneca Lake. Tough room.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 26, 2024

It’s used for aircraft registration, airport taxiways, holding points, weather broadcasts, and more. Requesting Pilot: Greenwest Approach, N123AB, Cessna 172, overhead Sedona VOR at five thousand five hundred, en route to Johnsonville, request flight following. Learning this alphabet from A to Z is key.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It was not an inspiring morning to fly out of Sodus, but I knew that the poor weather was localized to the Lake Ontario shore and that Washington DC was forecast to be sunny and significantly warmer. Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing.

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AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six Navigation equipment includes a Garmin GNS-530W GPS navigator and two VOR receivers for secondary navigation. ADS-B provides real-time traffic information and almost-live NEXRAD radar and weather data. An autopilot and Aspen primary flight display reduce workload on long flights.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

You check the weather, get information Charlie, and then tune up tower frequency. Consider what calls might come up given the route of flight and the types of airspace and weather it might pass through. Say you are approaching the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport from the south in a Cessna 12345 and want to make a full stop landing.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

You check the weather, get information Charlie, and then tune up tower frequency. Consider what calls might come up given the route of flight and the types of airspace and weather it might pass through. Say you are approaching the Grand Prairie Municipal Airport from the south in a Cessna 12345 and want to make a full stop landing.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

With gusty winds forecast along the eastern seaboard on October 11, I let the weather prognostic chart suggest a different course. West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. Serpentine tendrils of mist followed the course of the Genesee River south of Letchworth.

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Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

Their flying skills are average, and weather decisions and other things they should have learned while getting a commercial license are poor. We had checked weather, Notams, and everything else, and all seemed good. Our company has a plan to mentor them to move on or become a PIC within our operation.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

As our trip to Sleepy Hollow neared, forecasts for IFR weather inspired a shuffling of airplanes and pilots so that our seven adventurers were distributed among three IFR-capable airplanes with current IFR pilots. Eventually, we passed through the cold front that had pushed the dismal weather into Sodus that morning.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I learned during the process that all Canadian IFR flight plans require an alternate airport regardless of weather conditions. In the US, the requirement to file an alternate is contingent on weather forecast within an hour of arrival at the destination as described by the “1-2-3 rule”. Delta was current at Kingston.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

My filed route to Ogdensburg was via YOW (the Ottawa VOR) and IKLAX. I have received vectors around other aircraft, airspace, and weather. Though completely unintentional, I liked the effect and kept it. VNC depicting filed route from Rockliffe to Ogdensburg via YOW, IKLAX. I have also received vectors onto instrument approaches.

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