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Trial by Ice

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MAY 5, 2025

I filed my IFR flight plan, received a clearance and took off into the gray winter sky. Just north of Jefferson City, the Kansas City Center controller cleared us to the Jeff City VOR, which was on the airport, to hold at 4,000 feet. I got out my instrument approach chart and studied the holding pattern and the VOR approach procedure.

VOR

VOR Weather Approach Runway

Experience in the Chair: Guiding a Twin Beech Home

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

After the war, many surplus aircraft were repurposed for civilian use in business aviation, regional airlines, and bush operations. After the war, many surplus aircraft were repurposed for civilian use in regional airline operations. In the 70s, enroute navigation was usually on VOR Airways (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radio).

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Flight Instruments vs. Avionics

WayMan

JUNE 16, 2025

Altimeter: Shows the altitude of the aircraft above a designated reference point, essential for flight level assignment and terrain clearance. Attitude Indicator (Artificial Horizon): Shows the orientation (pitch and bank) of the aircraft relative to the horizon of the Earth, essential for instrument meteorological conditions flight.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Instrument Meteorological Conditions Omni-Directional Range Primary Flight Display Cockpit

Who is the pilot in command of your aircraft?

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They arent just a list of priorities in an emergency, they also neatly sum up the different roles a pilot must play, roles that used to be divided very specifically on the flight deck of an airliner. Consider the amazing picture below, taken on the flight deck of a Boeing 314 flying boat over 80 years ago.

Pilot in Command

Pilot in Command Pilot Approach Airplanes

Are There Consequences for Declaring an Emergency in Flight?

Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

The pilot requested Special VFR for low ceilings and visibility, but didnt really express to ATC the issue he was having trying to maintain clearance from the clouds, Sedor said. When an air carrier declares an emergency due to a loss of a VOR or other instrumentation, I get an email. Although NTSB 830.5 Although NTSB 830.5

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Cockpit Airplanes

Don’t Sim Like You Fly

AV Web

JUNE 24, 2025

But it’s a futile one, since you aren’t building a Level-D airline-grade sim. Note that I’m layering different skill sets as I go: first flight planning and briefing, then a little buttonology, then tracking VORs, then a hold, etc. Again, this thinking is misguided. That’s the beauty of flight sim. What’s The Scenario?

Weather

Weather Approach VOR AGL

Delving into the Delmarva

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

I departed the Williamson-Sodus Airport solo at 8:00 am and picked up my instrument clearance in the air from a Rochester Approach controller with a familiar voice. Although dressed as a military C-47 on the outside, most likely to suit the restaurant theme where it was displayed, this DC-3 once wore United Airlines livery.

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A Slow Flight to India – Day 3 –Hurghada-Kuwait

ABEAM

JULY 5, 2024

Hurghada Approach passed us off to Cairo Control and they refused to give us a direct to the first Saudi VOR WEJ at the east side of the Red Sea due to unknown reasons. We coasted into mainland of Saudi-Arabia near the WEJ VOR and continued onwards to Al Ula. MHz with an airliner taking off from there: that was new !

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VOR Density Altitude Approach Final Approach

Class E Airspace Explained

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

No ATC clearance is required for VFR flights below 10,000 feet. That’s higher than commercial airliners fly. They allow you enough clearance to see and avoid other airplanes. At this altitude, commercial airlines and high-speed aircraft move in and out of the clouds.

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Airspace Classes AGL VOR Clearance

Class B Airspace Explained

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Pilots must meet equipment and certification requirements and have ATC clearance to enter. You’ll always find a steady stream of airliners queued up for departure and arrival. Due to its high elevation, Denver’s Class B airspace extends up to 12,000 feet MSL to give airliners room to descend.

Clearance

Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder

Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 1, Of PINs and Prop Locks

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I contacted Rochester Approach, the controller came back with, "Are you looking for your clearance to College Park?" I answered in the affirmative, received my clearance, and was given a climb to 6,000 feet as the rain streaked over my windscreen. Shouldn't he have my full clearance? I made the call before engine start.

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Transponder Clearance Approach General Aviation

2700 Miles in a Cherokee Six

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. Cherokee Six instrument panel Like my airline job, I fly nearly paperless using an iPad Mini and the ForeFlight app for navigation charts. Santa Fe is located 6,349 feet above sea level.

Density Altitude

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Hot Times in the "Freeze"

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JULY 6, 2024

Long story short, when I received my clearance that evening, it was to my originally intended BELTS waypoint.) We were cleared direct to College Park via the Westminster VOR (EMI). We reunited with Simon before making our cellphone calls to Potomac for departure clearances. Tough room. Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, PA.

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North to Ottawa | Part 1, With a Little Help from Kingston Radio

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

I filed a route of BRUIN to ART (Watertown VOR) to Kingston to avoid overflying significant portions of Lake Ontario. Kingston Radio provided updated weather conditions while sequencing traffic like a tower with the exception that no landing clearances were given. Honestly, I felt a little spoiled by Kingston Radio! How can that be?

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Runway Flight Plan Clearance Weather

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Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. I already had set up for Patuxent approach so I switched from CTAF to Pax to pick up my clearance. Once south of Myrtle Beach I was turned direct Charleston VOR. I picked up my clearance, made sure oil is up to temp, then called for taxi instructions.

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Runway Approach VOR Weather

North to Ottawa | Part 3, Caution: Wet Paint

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In a prior telephone conversation with the Rockliffe Flying Club, I was assured that I could pick up my IFR clearance in the air from Ottawa Terminal and planned to do exactly that. My filed route to Ogdensburg was via YOW (the Ottawa VOR) and IKLAX. Though completely unintentional, I liked the effect and kept it.

Approach

Approach Clearance Airplanes Runway

The Key West of Ohio

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Off Sodus, I briefly leveled at 2,500 feet to remain visual until I received my instrument clearance from Rochester Approach. Fortunately, the clearance was a simple one that morning because I was absurdly tongue tied while talking to Rochester. Serpentine tendrils of mist followed the course of the Genesee River south of Letchworth.

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Runway Approach Knot Drag

In Search of the Headless Horseman

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Once the rain relented, we staggered our departures and called for our IFR clearances on the ground. Despite those ground clearances, we found that the ceiling above our home airport was high enough to accommodate VFR departures with airborne clearances. Better safe than sorry. That was a good plan.

Clearance

Clearance Instrument Meteorological Conditions Knot Airplanes

Trial by Ice

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Savannah, Georgia

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