Pilot Institute

JUNE 19, 2025

They serve as visual aids to guide pilots, ground crew, and Air Traffic Control, indicating the boundaries and areas of different spaces of the airfield, such as runways, taxiways, holding positions, and parking areas. To provide a clear area for jet and propeller blasts to dissipate. To prevent taxiway overruns.

Runway

Flying Magazine

MAY 23, 2025

ADS-B data of the jet’s path show it had descended below the published glideslope. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB ) officials reported finding parts of the jet beneath the power lines. Photographs and video from the scene show burned-out homes and cars, and jet wreckage strewn in streets and yards. At 2:36 a.m.

Altimeter

Northstar VFR

MAY 9, 2024

It was for me, especially when I had to fly to a towered field and talk to Air Traffic Control (ATC). Utilize the Aeronautical Information Manual: Study the AIM Chapter 4, Section 2 – “Radio Communication Phraseology and Techniques.” Air traffic controllers are generally very patient with student pilots.

Pilot

Aerotime

OCTOBER 4, 2024

With the flying of the aircraft and an awareness of your location (heading, height above the ground, and surroundings) all established, it is at this point that pilots have been trained to use the radio to send out a distress message and seek assistance from air traffic control (ATC) on the ground (or ‘ communicate ‘).

Transponder