Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Minimum wind speed Amount of precipitation Cloud ceiling height Visibility A standard briefing should contain all this information and more. Know Your Minimum Conditions The first step in obtaining your briefing is knowing your capabilities and how comfortable you are flying in adverse weather.

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Weather Pilot True Airspeed Ceiling 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

CRM has gone on to become a staple of airline and military flight training. Bowman Field, where I had stopped on the way north, had a great FBO, 1,000-foot ceilings, radar, and a tower. His team developed the concept in the late 1970s to improve “interpersonal communication, leadership, and decision-making” in aircraft flight decks.

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

Also, we noted that our fuel consumption was significantly higher than calculated due to headwinds which were 10 to 15 knots higher than forecast, giving us a ground speed of about 120 knots. Through the Lufthansa airliner, we got a new clearance: from present position direct ES and than BIEG. So we could continue to Iceland.

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Weather Clearance Knot Airplanes 52

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 14, 2024

For example, a pilot of a light twin aircraft, flying at a medium altitude with a tailwind could easily have a groundspeed in excess of 200 knots. Thus, traveling at over 3 nautical miles (NM) per minute, a pilot may not have enough time to receive and decipher a pop-up TFR based on the 100 NM look-ahead and a 10-minute transmission interval.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

That big day finally arrives, and not being able to contain yourself for much longer, you decide to bite the bullet and fly down via the airlines. Now you have a choice to either abide by the aforementioned ceiling and visibility requirements OR you must have standard takeoff minimums WITH a climb gradient of 343’ per nautical mile to 5,200’.

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 98

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In the 1930s, Island Airways operated Ford Trimotors on one of the shortest airline routes ever created between what is now Erie-Ottawa International Airport, Kelley's Island, and the Bass Islands. As I passed Kelley's Island, wind streaks in the water out of the southwest indicated a wind of six to eight knots, exactly as forecast.

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Air Facts

JULY 19, 2024

Before you realized it, the altimeter had wound itself well past the initial ceiling you had mentally calculated in your preflight planning, and now you found yourself squarely inside Class B airspace – OUCH! Now, the knot in your stomach tightened….you What to do if you inadvertently fly into Class B airspace? Consider the NASA ASRS.

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Altimeter Pilot Approach Ceiling 98

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Despite those ground clearances, we found that the ceiling above our home airport was high enough to accommodate VFR departures with airborne clearances. We flew at 7,000 feet with as much as a 30 knot tailwind. Finding us there, Chief Instructor Mike B commented that we were an "optimistic group" owing to an approaching cold front.

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Clearance Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Heres their list and rationalizations: Caylas Picks It might be more common to see Jennies hanging from ceilings than seeing them in the open air, there are still a few out and about. Credit: Cayla McLeod] Douglas DC-3 : Todays commercial airliners dont excite me, but the airliner that changed the world certainly does.

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Fear of Landing

JANUARY 3, 2025

On the 25th of December 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243, a scheduled passenger flight from Baku, Azerbaijan to Grozny, Russia, crashed on approach to Aktau International Airport in Kazakhstan with 62 passengers and five crew on board. Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8243 : AXY8243 proceeding to Baku. Flight 8243 : Give us Makhachkala.

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