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Pilot’s Guide to Airspace

Flight Training Central

The level of control goes from zero in some areas to considerable control around congested, big city, airports that serve considerable airline traffic. indicated airspeed, the speed limit for operations below 10,000′ MSL. indicated airspeed. It typically extends to 4,000′ AGL.

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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

Our NIFA team of pilots would travel to other colleges and compete in sanctioned competition involving precise navigation, pre-flight inspections, accuracy landings, and simulated bomb drops into a barrel from 100 AGL feet using bean bags as bombs. I desperately wanted to get beneath the clouds and at the same time build up excess airspeed.

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Class C Airspace Explained

Pilot Institute

Key Takeaways Airports that fall under Class C designation handle general aviation and airline traffic. Class C airports’ speed limits require aircraft within 4 Nautical Miles (NM) of the primary airport and below 2500 feet to maintain an Indicated Airspeed (IAS) of 200 knots or less.