Flight Training Central

MARCH 10, 2025

To operate in Class D airspace, you must: Be in contact with ATC and have a clearance to enter. A temporary flight restriction (TFR) may be issued for: Areas around major sporting events below 3,000 AGL and within 3 nautical miles. Establish two-way radio communication with ATC. Have an operating transponder with altitude reporting.

Visual Flight Rules

AV Web

JUNE 24, 2025

That’s where your sim’s value really starts to shine.

Weather

Flying Magazine

JULY 25, 2025

They need to not only understand things like airspace boundaries, cloud clearance requirements, and surface visibility minimums, but must also be able to coordinate their turns, manage their altitudes and headings, and work the radios while putting that knowledge to use. Then try it right after takeoff at 500 feet agl.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

JULY 22, 2025

Although we were expecting the ceilings to lift, we were only able to climb to 1,300 feet agl before running out of proper cloud clearance. Finkbeiner and I had big plans for this flight, but Mother Nature had another idea. This certainly isn’t enough room for stalls,” I said. Yeah, I agree,” he replied.

Runway

Flying Magazine

MAY 27, 2025

There was an overcast at 1,300 agl (1,850 msl), but no precipitation and good visibility below the clouds. His IFR clearance, which he had received previously, said to expect a climb to FL 330 10 minutes after departure. After taxiing to Runway 32, he was instructed to turn to a heading of 090 after takeoff and maintain 3,000.

Pilot

Flight Training Central

MARCH 18, 2024

For example, a pilot flying IFR in controlled airspace will have to file an IFR flight plan and receive an ATC clearance. For VFR flight, controlled airspace means increased cloud clearance and visibility requirements. For the VFR pilot flying in B, C, and D airspace, there are communication and/or clearance requirements.

AGL

WayMan

MAY 13, 2025

Quick Reference Table: Airspace Classes Overview Airspace Class Altitude Range Entry Requirements Key Characteristics Class A 18,000 ft MSL to 60,000 ft MSL IFR clearance, Instrument rating, Mode C Transponder High-altitude controlled airspace for fast, high-altitude flights Class B Surface to 10,000 ft MSL (around major airports) Explicit ATC clearance, (..)

Airspace Classes

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

If you depart MDA on the downwind or base leg, you’re on your own as far as obstacle clearance. At what AGL altitude will the aircraft be in a stable/configured condition? (No Be fully configured and on speed prior to receiving landing clearance. What techniques will be utilized to comply with those obstacle radii?

Approach

Flight Training Central

JULY 1, 2024

While Class E airspace is considered controlled airspace, you do not need an ATC clearance to fly in it. Class E airspace rarely goes all the way to the surface, and in non-mountainous terrain, the floor of Class E airspace is typically 700 feet or 1,200 feet AGL. But how can you know the difference?

AGL

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

At the same time, you’ll have no charted guarantees of obstruction clearance and probably no ATC backup, so it’s just you and your wits against the elements. If you have 10 miles of clear air in all directions, you might be comfortable flying at 2,000 feet agl, but not with 3 to 5 miles of restricted visibility.

Weather

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It typically begins at 1200 feet AGL but can start lower in some locations. No ATC clearance is required for VFR flights below 10,000 feet. The 1200-Foot Rule Usually, Class E airspace starts at 1200 feet Above Ground Level (AGL). They allow you enough clearance to see and avoid other airplanes.

Airspace Classes

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Additionally, a pilot should report any of the following events:: When vacating any previously assigned altitude or flight level for a newly assigned altitude or flight level ( AIM 5-3-3 ) When an altitude change will be made if operating on a clearance specifying VFR-on-top. ( AIM 5-3-3 ) When an approach has been missed. (

Instrument Flight Rules

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Also, from when I lived out West, there was the mountaintop clearance guideline—1,000 feet for every 10 knots of wind, with 30 knots meaning no-go. But if I was going VFR over strange territory, I would want lots more than 1,000 feet agl. With my risk profile, IFR really means ignoring crappy VFR and VFR cloud clearance requirements.

Airplanes

Flight Training Central

APRIL 12, 2024

If operating under visual flight rules (VFR), yes, a pilot may fly through a military operations area (MOA) without receiving a clearance or communicating with ATC; however, it’s important to understand the risks and activities present within an active MOA.

Visual Flight Rules

Flight Training Central

MAY 14, 2024

To taxi from the ramp to the runway at a towered airport, (across the “movement area”), you need to receive a taxi clearance from the Ground controller. That’s ideally a cylinder around the airport with a 4 NM radius and extending to 2500 feet AGL, however, local variations are probably more the rule than the exception.

Runway

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Before entering Class C airspace, pilots must receive clearance from Air Traffic Control (ATC). Before flying into Class C airspace, a pilot must obtain a clearance from ATC. Flight Plan and Clearance : Before entering Class C airspace, IFR aircraft must file a flight plan and receive an ATC clearance.

Clearance

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

You must maintain VFR cloud clearances appropriate for the airspace. Youre expected to land as soon as practical if you go around, or stay clear of clouds until issued a new clearance. Thats a clearance, and changing runways requires permission. Call the clearance delivery number at 888-766-8267 to cancel.

Approach

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

You must maintain VFR cloud clearances appropriate for the airspace. Youre expected to land as soon as practical if you go around, or stay clear of clouds until issued a new clearance. Thats a clearance, and changing runways requires permission. Call the clearance delivery number at 888-766-8267 to cancel.

Approach

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

the ILS approach can be credited regardless of actual weather if you are issued an IFR clearance. For any flight above an altitude of 1,200 feet AGL, when the visibility is less than 3 miles. When is an IFR clearance required during VFR weather conditions? the ILS approach can be credited only if you use a view-limiting device.

Instrument Flight Rules

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Pilots must meet equipment and certification requirements and have ATC clearance to enter. Operating Requirements in Class B Airspace Operational Requirements VFR traffic needs explicit clearance to enter Bravo airspace. If you’re flying under IFR, you don’t need an explicit Bravo clearance. What is Class B Airspace?

Clearance

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

VFR to MVFR…then 2 miles visibility and a ceiling of 1,200 feet agl. Remind the learners that GPS is much more than the “Direct To” key, because the direct key and the magenta line will put them through a mountainside or airspace requiring a clearance, so they best have their wits about them and maintain situational awareness.

Crosswind

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

At the same time, you’ll have no charted guarantees of obstruction clearance and probably no ATC backup, so it’s just you and your wits against the elements. If you have 10 miles of clear air in all directions, you might be comfortable flying at 2,000 feet agl, but not with 3 to 5 miles of restricted visibility.

Weather

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Follow procedures when requesting an SVFR clearance or departing a non-towered airport. Pattern altitudes are typically 1,000 feet above ground level (AGL) for piston aircraft. You can contact Flight Service, but they cannot give you an SVFR clearance. Runway incursions are caused by lapses in awareness and communication.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

MAY 25, 2024

High-pressure conditions decrease altimeter accuracy, affecting terrain clearance and aircraft spacing. FDC NOTAMs also provide information about TFRs and other special airspace. FDC NOTAMs also include warnings for high barometric pressure areas. FDC 3/2226 JFK SID JOHN F KENNEDY INTL, NEW YORK, NY.

NOTAMs

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

This can greatly impact landing performance and obstacle clearance. x V SO (or POH recommendation) by around 500 feet AGL. Establish the target approach speed by around 500 feet AGL. The Flight Safety Foundation suggests increasing landing distance by 10% for every 1% of downhill slope.

Weight-Shift-Control

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Current minimums on the RNAV-28 are 558 feet AGL since we lost our LPV approaches due to obstructions. Closer to home, with the airport weather reporting marginal VFR, Tom and I separately picked up IFR clearances from Syracuse Approach and requested the RNAV 28 approach to Sodus.

Ceiling

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

He died when it blew up at an altitude of 3,000’ AGL. Airships using COSH can also stay aloft indefinitely, but they can land vertically anywhere with enough clearance. Not so with the original Rozière , which had a bag of hydrogen inside a bag of air heated by burning straw in a frame at the bottom.

Lift

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

A controller who withholds or issues a late descent clearance is also to blame. The GOM also called for the airspeed to be “on target” at such altitudes respectively. According to the GOM, either pilot could call for a go-around, yet neither did despite the published stabilized approach criteria being violated.

Approach

Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

I queried ATC about when to expect the approach clearance and was informed that the Saratoga had appeared to land but the pilot hadn’t contacted ATC to close his IFR flight plan. I immediately leveled off at around 650’ AGL, and began slowing down. The IAF was looming closer. miles northeast of the airport in reduced visibility.

Descent

Flight Training Central

APRIL 29, 2024

If the restricted area is not active and has been released to the controlling agency, the ATC facility will allow the aircraft to operate in the restricted airspace without issuing specific clearance. MTR’s with segments above 1,500′ AGL are identified by a three-digit number.

Clearance

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

You’re skimming the cloud tops at 3500 feet, which is 2900 feet AGL You ask Approach for lower, but the controller says you’re already at the MVA for the area so you can’t get lower. You can’t cancel IFR, because you won’t be able to maintain VFR cloud clearance requirements. NM past the airport only to turn around and come back.

Approach

Pilot Institute

MARCH 25, 2025

The FAA strictly regulates operational limits, setting a maximum flight altitude at 400 feet Above Ground Level (AGL), mandating a visibility minimum of three statute miles, and enforcing cloud clearance requirements500 feet below and 2,000 feet horizontally from clouds ( FAA Advisory Circular 107-2A ).

Payload