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. In the NTSB final report, the pilots failure to declare an emergency is listed as a contributing factor to the crash.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For most general aviation operations, it allows a pilot to descend to as low as 200′ AGL and assist a pilot in locating the runway in as low as 3/8 mile visibility. The Instrument Landing System (ILS) is a precision approach and provides both lateral and vertical guidance to a runway.

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AV Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

I’d yet to land on that fabled grass runway, the Augusta National of general aviation, and this would be the year. But Anderson was reporting 300-foot overcast ceilings and everywhere else was just about as bad. He also pens a weekly online column called Words Aloft and this is this week’s offering.

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AV Web

DECEMBER 26, 2024

( This story originally appeared in Aviation Safety Magazine.) “Everyone talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it. The same could be said about managing the risk of general aviation. Stop me if youve heard that before. The point is to remain flexible in your scheduling to allow for poor weather.

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AV Web

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A long line of general aviation birds waited their turn to unload. A Bonanza was in front of me, to the rear were a Baron, a Saratoga, Cessna 185 on floats, and another Baron, each piled almost to the ceiling with aid supplies. Standing on the ramp at Rutherford County Airport in rural North Carolina, I was far from alone.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

However, the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 paved the way for its return, and production resumed in 1996. This legislation helped rejuvenate the general aviation market, and the Cessna 172 once again became a staple in flight schools and private ownership.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This rating should end any temptation to “scud run” around TV towers or under a low ceiling and eliminate the dreaded VFR-into-IMC trap. One more thing: Just because you have earned an instrument rating, there is no requirement to go out and fly in low ceilings and visibilities. The ATC service is better.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In order to shorten development time and save costs, the aircraft featured components of two closely related aircraft of the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas: the wings, ailerons, and landing gear of aBeech Bonanza general aviation aircraft and the tail assemblyof a Beech T-34 Mentor military trainer.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

iFly EFB is a good example of an option designed specifically for general aviation (GA) pilots, offering powerful yet user-friendly tools for both VFR and IFR operations. Ceilings drop. Tool for the Go-Around and the Diversion Instrument flying is not always neat. The weather moves in.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. This central core extends up to around 10,000 feet MSL, the airspace’s ceiling. However, the ceiling for each shelf is the same as the core. Although Class B airspace has a typical ceiling of 10,000 feet MSL, exceptions exist.

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Learn to Fly

APRIL 11, 2024

Ceiling—How high are the clouds; can you fly above or around them? Temperatures—Most general aviation aircraft have limited heating and cooling capabilities while still on the ground and rely on airflow over the engine when in the air. This tends to result in extreme conditions.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

A little over 20 years later, the term single-pilot resource management evolved from FAA/university research into the emerging generation of general aviation long-distance travel machines, such as the Cirrus SR22. Bowman Field, where I had stopped on the way north, had a great FBO, 1,000-foot ceilings, radar, and a tower.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

That’s exactly what the legendary Bob Buck did 55 years ago in his Cessna 182 Skylane as he enjoyed the sights and sounds of low altitude flying and the freedom that only general aviation affords—a relatable sentiment to the Air Facts community. They picked me up, told me to get the tower closer in.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

AGL is important for drone pilots as the regular ceiling for drone flight is defined as 400 feet AGL. This is a general aviation term that also applies to drone flight. Simply put, 400 feet AGL means that the 400 feet is measured from the underlying ground surface above the specific airspace.

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Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The assumption that standards established for remotely-piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) and general aviation (GA) single-pilot aircraft may be transferred to transport category airplanes in commercial air transport is not feasible, because of the high standards of Part 25 certification.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Some general aviation singles come with winterization kits that are especially effective at keeping the oil and cylinder head temperatures in the green band. A complete weather briefing is a must with an emphasis on ceilings, visibilities, cloud layers if IFR, and freezing levels.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Some general aviation singles come with winterization kits that are especially effective at keeping the oil and cylinder head temperatures in the green band. A complete weather briefing is a must with an emphasis on ceilings, visibilities, cloud layers if IFR, and freezing levels.

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Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the small, unpressurized cabins of general aviation aircraft, any carbon monoxide (CO) that enters the cabin can quickly reach a significant and dangerous concentration. OSHA uses 200 ppm as a 5-minute sample ceiling, and 1500 ppm as an instantaneous limit. However, most of them are not well suited for aviation.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” The average age of the current general aviation fleet is somewhere between 35 and 50 years. It is one thing to consider breaking a 400-foot ceiling when everything in the cockpit is working.

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AV Web

JUNE 2, 2024

They could be awash in dropped oxygen masks and fallen ceiling panels back there, and the most any good captain should say is “really rough air” or “it is getting choppy.” In the general aviation world I live in now, altitude changes in a non-turbocharged air breather like the Aztec are somewhat futile.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

With the introduction of the Cirrus SR22T in 2010, general aviation had a truly modern, high-flying, personal airplane that could fly at over 200 mph and make reliable long-distance travel a reality for the single-engine piston set. Today, this translates to a cool half- to three-quarters of a million, right in Cirrus SR22 territory.

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Plane and Pilot

JUNE 4, 2025

At that time, Citabrias and Decathlons were selling like hotcakes, and tailwheel aircraft were making a big resurgence in the general aviation market. I never really considered flying a general aviation aircraft in military markings, Nelson said. Piper wanted to capture its share of that market. 15 m): 440 ft.

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Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

It will be displayed here as opposed to being suspended from the glass ceiling of the nearby Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall as it has since 1976. Another general aviation design in the form of the Mignet HM.14

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Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport is open to general aviation from 08:00 to 17:00. Weather reports from the Naval Auxiliary Landing Field on the island warned of a low cloud ceiling, overcast at 700-800 feet. Needless to say, we lost. The airport does not offer night operations and there is no lighting.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Located directly on the Hudson River roughly thirty miles north of New York City, Sleepy Hollow is easily accessed by General Aviation and seven Williamson Flying Club members planned a Halloween pilgrimage there to follow the trail of the Headless Horseman. Better safe than sorry.

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 11, 2023

Finally, I called Hawthorne Aviation at the Cobb County Airport in Kennesaw, GA, a towered general aviation airport on the northwest quadrant of metropolitan Atlanta. The entire route to Pickens County was under IFR conditions with low ceilings. Nothing was available. I told them to expect me within a couple of hours.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We We just fly the thing around at 1000 feet, so the ceiling, we don’t know. We didn’t do any single-engine work in the time we had, but the team says the single-engine service ceiling is probably around 5000 feet.

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Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

In June 2023, South Korea amended a law putting a ceiling on the number of international flights allowed for cabin crew to minimize their exposure to CR. ICAO Annex 6 Part II International General Aviation states: Aeroplanes operated above 15 000 m (49 000 ft) radiation indicator.

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Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 16, 2023

A multilayered example of cluelessness, the episode was not a shining moment for general aviation. Having driven this highway a few times, I always find it hard not to imagine the incredible weight pressing down on the tunnel's ceiling. Left base, runway 1, Slatington, with the Lehigh Gap visible to the north.

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AV Web

JULY 17, 2024

But this one, crudely hand-drawn (see illustration), was different – a mere three-mile circle centered on Trump National, with air traffic restricted from the surface to a ceiling of just 3,000 feet. Under those TFRs, with ceilings not limited to 3,000 feet, several local airports were shut down along with overflying traffic.

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