Clearance Final Approach VOR 
Air Facts
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
“The instrument conditions, likely turbulence, and increased workload imposed by beginning the approach phase of the flight presented a situation that was conducive to the development of spatial disorientation and a loss of situational awareness. Book work and sim time really do pay off.
Air Facts
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.
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Air Facts
MAY 7, 2025
The longest runways had front course and back course ILS (Instrument Landing Systems) and an on-field VOR that provided navigation and approach capabilities for aircraft on instrument flights. In the 70s, enroute navigation was usually on VOR Airways (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radio). The Tower had no radar.
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. And then we droned on from VOR to VOR over the desert.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
When you cross the IAF, you enter the initial approach phase. Some initial approaches lead directly to the final approach. Many approaches have fixes in between called Intermediate Fixes (IF). Flying at MSA guarantees at least 1,000 feet of obstacle clearance. If present, the plan view will label them as IF.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
Before RNAV, pilots had to rely on radios (NAVAIDs) and antennas on the ground such as VORs (Very High-Frequency Omnidirectional Range) and NDBs (Non-Directional Beacons). You wont find any mention of LP+V on an approach plate. LP+V approaches dont always account for obstacle clearance, so theyre not an officially protected procedure.
Photographic Logbook
APRIL 19, 2024
Even though I was likely to be cleared through the outer ring by ATC (air traffic control) while on an instrument flight plan, I filed a route from Sodus to the Williamsport VOR (FQM) that circumvented the TFR entirely. The reroute was minimal, an insertion of Yardley VOR (ARD) into my flight plan. Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the gloom.
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