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

Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

mandates when notification is requiredsuch as the failure of a cockpit instrument aboard an airliner, which is not terribly uncommon, but because the nature of the crewed environment is not as critical as it is for a single-pilot operation. It is part of the airline company operating procedures. Although NTSB 830.5

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Air

JUNE 17, 2025

VOR , NDB). Discover how our Commercial Pilot and Airline Transport Pilot Licence Course can be the start of your career. Holding patterns: Depicts the specific circuits where an aircraft must orbit if instructed to hold by air traffic control. The first step into the cockpit begins today.

Approach

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Students training on the DA42 often move directly into airline cadet programs or turbine transition courses. These features help students master precision approaches, navigation via GPS and VOR, instrument cross-check, and complex airspace procedures before advancing to multi-engine or commercial certificates. and Europe.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

An instrument rating unlocks access to: Airports with IFR approaches (ILS, RNAV, VOR, etc.) Access More Airports and Airspace Want to fly into a destination with unpredictable weather? A busy Class B airport? A mountain valley where clouds sit low over the ridges?

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Pilot Institute

MAY 26, 2025

airline accidents between 2009 and 2018. You: We experienced severe clear air turbulence at flight level 400, approximately 35 miles northeast of DBL VOR. United Airlines Flight 826 (1997) It was nighttime on December 1997 when United Airlines Flight 826 took off from Tokyo’s Narita Airport. Time was 1547 Zulu.

Turbulence

Flying Magazine

MAY 12, 2025

Some Cirrus owners have successfully installed Starlink Mini in the baggage area under a window, while others have explored more creative solutions such as mounting it in a wing tip (though this requires testing to ensure it doesnt interfere with other systems like VOR antennas).

Weather

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

Industry Backgrounds : Some instructors are airline captains, others are corporate pilots, and all have logged thousands of flight hours. Simulated instrument scenarios: partial panel, unusual attitudes, instrument approaches (ILS, GPS, VOR). Minimum 50 hours cross‐country PIC, 40 hours actual or simulated instrument time.

Checkride

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

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

I momentarily put HAL into heading mode, inserted the East Texas VOR into the route, programmed GPS direct to ETX, then switched back to "nav" mode to avoid any unexpected turns from tinkering with the active leg in the GPS flight plan. This was a lesson learned in 2024 while coincidentally receiving another reroute near Philadelphia.

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Air Facts

JULY 23, 2025

Revenge at 4,000 Feet Air Facts Journal The 19th of November, 1973, was cold and rainy at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where I was employed as a 23-year-old copilot with Skyway Airlines. The Skyway Airlines’ Beech 18s flown by the author in this story. By day’s end, 42 “sons of b **s” had been scared off Skyway Airlines for good.

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Northstar VFR

AUGUST 25, 2024

Every airline/operator must establish a Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP). V: VOR INSPECTION (FAR 91.171) For any flight operated under instrument flight rules (IFR) using a VOR navigation system, the VOR must be routinely checked/maintained, and an operational check performed within the previous 30 days.

Annual Inspection

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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Jetwhine

JULY 17, 2024

Pan Am furloughed me in 1970 and I went to work for Trans World Airlines, where I retired as a Boeing 767 captain. Even with all my prior experience and four additional weeks of ground school (which was basically a refresher for me) I have always wondered if I could have passed that exam without the “gouge.

VOR

AV Web

JULY 7, 2024

If you discount the fact that it is missing a flight director, autopilot, and autothrottles, my airplane is better equipped than most airliners I have flown. We navigated using pilotage and occasionally a VOR. I pulled out my backup lawn chair, opened it, and asked him to sit with me in the shade for a while.

Cockpit

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That’s higher than commercial airliners fly. At this altitude, commercial airlines and high-speed aircraft move in and out of the clouds. Victor Airways Many low-altitude Victor Airways (VORs), also known as highways in the sky, run through Class E airspace. At 18,000 feet, the airspace transitions into Class A.

Airspace Classes

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dispatchers are often considered “pilots on the ground” and play an important part in airlines. In an airline environment, pilots have many responsibilities. Does it have GPS, INS, or VOR systems? The jump in salary is associated with switching from smaller regional airlines to mainline carriers.

Weather

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

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. If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS).

Clearance

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

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing. Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC.

Transponder

Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

We were cleared direct to College Park via the Westminster VOR (EMI). The aircraft out of Williamsport eventually got his flight following request fulfilled, but Center made him work for it. Tough room. Airport Incognito While still on with Harrisburg Approach, the inevitable IFR re-route came. Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, PA.

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Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. Once south of Myrtle Beach I was turned direct Charleston VOR. We finished breakfast and headed to the airport. I had completed the preflight yesterday so all I needed was to sump each tank and mount cameras. On departure I flew runway heading for a good distance.

Runway

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I filed a route of BRUIN to ART (Watertown VOR) to Kingston to avoid overflying significant portions of Lake Ontario. On the ramp at Kingston with the former airline terminal and control tower. I filed a route from Kingston via the Ottawa VOR (far left of the chart above) then direct to Rockliffe to avoid the restricted areas entirely.

Runway

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

My filed route to Ogdensburg was via YOW (the Ottawa VOR) and IKLAX. I spotted a few traffic targets as they were called out to me, which was easy because they were airliners and quite a bit larger than the average General Aviation aircraft. Though completely unintentional, I liked the effect and kept it.

Approach

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Lola was among the first female commercial pilots, breaking barriers in aviation when airliners were almost exclusively male territory. Lola went on to become a commercial airline transport pilot, flight instructor, SCUBA divemaster, and an award-winning author and photographer. ” He drawls, “Don’t bother.

Weather

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. 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.

Runway

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Tom and I filed via the Rockdale VOR, which was a starting point on the Nobbi Five arrival procedure used in the greater New York area. Cleared to depart behind a commercial airliner, we were inscrutably vectored back and forth across the course to HAAYS, the first waypoint on the procedure. That was a good plan.

Clearance

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

I flew general, corporate aviation, and military before going to a major airline. After spending decades in the cockpit of a major airline, it was difficult getting back into general and corporate aviation. Global 6000 Captain Solairus Aviation Sandy Hook CT I ’ve been flying since 1966. We tried and tried, but no joy.

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