AV Web

JUNE 3, 2025

Other factors included air traffic control staffing shortages and ATC communications equipment outages. Somehow, for some reason, Spirit Airlines 2543 slipped ahead of United 2434 and became the first flight to depart on the new runway.

Runway

Pilot Institute

MAY 8, 2025

From there, it gets routed like mail to the intended recipient: an airline operations center or an air traffic control unit. Functions and Features of ACARS Operational Messaging One of ACARS biggest jobs is keeping flight crews and airline operations teams in sync. ADS-C Youve probably heard of ADS-B before.

Clearance

AV Web

JANUARY 1, 2025

Modern FMS platforms equipped with AI can analyze vast amounts of data, including weather conditions, air traffic, and aircraft performance metrics, to optimize flight paths in real-time. Predictive Maintenance AIs impact extends beyond flight operations into aircraft maintenance.

Air Traffic Control

WayMan

JUNE 16, 2025

Communication Systems: Including radios for voice and data communication with air traffic control, other aircraft, and ground facilities. Flight Management Systems (FMS): Sophisticated computer systems with integration of navigation, flight planning, performance management, and systems monitoring.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

FAA Federal Aviation Administration The FAA is the US federal government agency in charge of aviation standards, air traffic control, airspace safety, and the certification of personnel and aircraft. Pilots are required to check for NOTAMs along their relevant routes or locations before the start of a flight.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Also, none of the online Air Traffic Control (ATC) networks (like VATSIM ) work with the Xbox. These apps connect your sim to a network of real-world air traffic controllers. The controllers guide you just like their real-world equivalents. A fully customized setup is simply not possible.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

You might have come across this term while studying for your written exam, or maybe it popped up on your sectional chart during flight planning. In a TRSA, air traffic controllers offer two main services: radar traffic advisories and sequencing. Radar traffic advisories are a type of safety alert.

Visual Flight Rules

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

You might think that Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are just about how to control and use your instruments in the aircraft, but you need more than skill–you need a rock-solid plan. IFR flight planning is about preparing for every twist and turn along the route. What Is an IFR Flight Plan?

Flight Plan

Flying Magazine

JULY 29, 2025

Learning (and Teaching) Take Place There are seminars on pretty much everything, from how to use specific products (thank you, Garmin), best practices for aircraft maintenance, best apps for flight planning, and the big kahuna, different aviation careers.

NDB

Northstar VFR

JULY 6, 2025

Imagine planning to land at a rural airport, only to find out via NOTAM that the runway lights are out of service at night. You don’t want to find that out in the air. How to check: Use flight planning tools like ForeFlight, 1800WXBRIEF, or the FAA NOTAM search. Delays can affect your fuel planning and arrival time.

NOTAMs

Pilot Institute

APRIL 4, 2025

When creating a flight plan, you’ll be doing distances, speeds, times en route, and fuel burn. You’ll have to figure out how to create a flight plan through different time zones, particularly for extended cross-country flights. Math in Flying What type of math will you actually be doing?

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

With a few instrument lessons under my belt, I felt confident to try a relatively straightforward flight under instrument conditions in the simulator using the VATSIM live air traffic control service. This Article First Appeared in FLYING Magazine If you're not already a subscriber, what are you waiting for?

Air Traffic Control

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. It was common practice for tower controllers to monitor the area control centre enroute frequency. It was a winter night shift in a Western Ontario air traffic control tower.

Weight-Shift-Control

Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

Youll learn how to navigate, communicate with Air Traffic Control, interpret weather, and conduct instrument approaches to airports, all without relying on whats outside your window. Flight canceled. That means more reliable flying, more completed trips, and more time in the air. A layer of clouds at 1,800 feet?

Pilot

Pilot Institute

JUNE 27, 2025

The FAA defines controlled airspace as “a generic term that covers the different classifications of airspace (Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, and Class E airspace) and defined dimensions within which air traffic control service is provided to IFR and VFR flights.” What does that mean?

AGL

Simple Flying

DECEMBER 28, 2024

A Dallas/Fort Worth-bound American Airlines flight seemingly followed a departure route unlike the standard procedures from Hawaiis largest airport on Friday. Rather than making an immediate right turn to ascend offshore, the aircraft climbed directly over downtown Honolulu, catching the eye of a witness on the ground.

Airlines

Pilot Institute

MAY 26, 2025

Stay tuned to other pilots reports and any advisories from air traffic control. Handling CAT in Flight While CAT may seem intimidating and perhaps even impossible to avoid, ensuring your survival is entirely within your power. Preparation and Flight Planning Everything starts with good preparation.

Turbulence

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Discussions may also cover weather interpretation, flight planning, and risk management. The goal is to ensure that pilots are up-to-date with the knowledge required for safe flight operations. Flight Instruction: During this portion, pilots perform various maneuvers to demonstrate their flying proficiency.

Weather

Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2025

The cadence of air traffic control (ATC) feels relentless. Unlike VFR flyingwhere most communications are limited to basic position reports, traffic calls, and pattern entriesIFR communication introduces a steady stream of high-speed, high-consequence exchanges. The phraseology can get complex.

Clearance

Inflight Pilot Training

JUNE 6, 2025

The airport offers controlled airspace, giving students hands-on experience communicating with air traffic control. It also provides quick access to multiple practice areas, nearby airports, and navigational waypoints, helping students build real-world flight planning and navigation skills.

Pilot

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Falcon Field provides a friendly atmosphere, low traffic compared to major airports, and a strong general aviation community. Its history as a World War II training base adds to its charm, with well-maintained runways, modern air traffic control, and a nearby aviation museum that keeps the spirit of flying alive.

Checkride

Pilot Institute

JULY 4, 2025

Coordination with ATC Another thing you shouldn’t forget is to maintain effective communication with Air Traffic Control (ATC). Then, inform them you’re rejoining the planned route only after clearing the weather. Then, inform them you’re rejoining the planned route only after clearing the weather.

Weather

Fear of Landing

JULY 4, 2025

Cairns Airport has 24-hour air traffic control services based on the control tower. The controller on duty had dealt with a flight at half past midnight, the last flight of the night. The next scheduled flight was at 05:00. The strobes were never turned back on. It was 01:42. There were not.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

JULY 25, 2025

VFR sectional charts (paper or digital), electronic flight gags (EFBs) such as iFlyEFB , and even built-in air traffic control (ATC) simulation provide immersive procedural experiences. A 50-100-nm cross-country flight is ideal for practicing VFR navigation techniques. Next, consider essential tools.

Cockpit

Aerotime

MAY 15, 2025

pic.twitter.com/jxfnq7sjtB — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) May 14, 2025 Estonias Ministry of Defense confirmed the aircraft entered Estonian airspace near the Juminda Peninsula for under a minute, flying without a filed flight plan, with its transponder turned off, and without maintaining radio contact with local air traffic control.

Transponder

Flying Magazine

MAY 3, 2025

Unlike Reliables system, in which remote pilots communicate with air traffic control (ATC), Merlin Pilots natural language processing (NLP) is designed to listen and even speak to controllers. That could pose a concern if the technology is operating based on a predetermined flight path.

Pilot

Fear of Landing

JULY 25, 2025

At that point, the flight crew were contacted to say that they needed to delay their departure, as more personnel were expected. Air Traffic Control noticed the same thing, calling the crew to ask whether they needed their taxi to be delayed. There is a lack of consistent definition of ferry flights.

Ferry Flight

One Mile at a Time

AUGUST 27, 2024

As an aviation geek, I love listening to air traffic control audio, and always enjoy the VASAviation YouTube channel, which does a great job covering noteworthy air traffic control interactions. Sure, it’s the middle of the night, but the airport also has a fair amount of traffic over those hours.

Air Traffic Control

Flightworx

MAY 1, 2024

Air traffic control rooms are strategic nerve centres in the aviation industry. Subject to many Hollywood films, and shrouded in mystery, this guide uncovers some of the most intriguing aspects of air traffic control rooms. What do air traffic controllers do? What technology is used?

Air Traffic Control

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It is not uncommon for air traffic control to pose this question to pilots on IFR flight plans approaching certain … Read More "New Honeywell Technology Means Safer Approaches" The post New Honeywell Technology Means Safer Approaches appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine. “Can you accept the visual?”

Approach

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

The remote pilot must have prior authorization from the Air Traffic Control (ATC) facility having jurisdiction over that airspace. The remote pilot must monitor the Air Traffic Control (ATC) frequency from launch to recovery. 2: Which technique should a remote pilot use to scan for traffic?

Weight-Shift-Control

Think Aviation

JANUARY 20, 2021

Picking up flight following is a critical final step in the VFR flight planning process. On cross country flights, the sequence of events starts with planning the flight, filing the flight plan, opening it with nearest flight service station (FSS), and finally requesting flight following with air traffic control (ATC).

Air Traffic Control

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While the cabin crew ensures that other passengers are seated and all hand baggage is safely stowed, the pilots will be checking that the flight plan has been loaded into the aircraft’s navigation computer, the necessary airways clearance has been received from air traffic control (ATC) allowing the flight to join controlled airspace once airborne, (..)

Cabin Crew

Universal Weather

JULY 30, 2024

However, to participate, operators must ensure their aircraft meet specific avionics requirements, which are crucial for maintaining efficient communication between pilots and air traffic control. Failure to register will result in being blocked from using the CPDLC system.

Air Traffic Control

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A few hours later, the pilot obtained a weather briefing and filed an IFR flight plan before departing Westchester to fly back to Montgomery County. The pilot was instrument rated and the flight was on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan: that is, they did not have to stay visual for the flight.

Approach

Flexair

JULY 3, 2024

The ICAO alphabet helps pilots, air traffic controllers, and ground personnel accurately convey important information by using distinct code words for each letter. Importance in Air Traffic Control Communication Air traffic controllers and pilots rely on the phonetic alphabet to ensure clear and effective communication.

Pilot

Jetwhine

MARCH 18, 2024

Making the airliner’s flight even easier, I briefly explained the structured environment in which it flies. A prop plane pilot, I explained, more often than not is the sole manipulator of the controls and, therefore, responsible for every aspect of conducting a flight safely.

Air Traffic Control