Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

Flying westbound toward Rochester at 6,000 feet, I traversed a variety of unique cloudscapes, blasting through them with impunity courtesy of an IFR clearance An overcast layer deprived Rochester's cityscape of its fullest color potential. When filing the return flight plan, I debated between cruise altitudes of 5,000 and 7,000 feet.

OAT

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The Cessna 150 Since I was the only instrument rated pilot on the team, and the weather was marginal VFR, I chose to fly the 172, N7358G, up to Fairfield on an IFR flight plan above the clouds at 7,000 feet. My IFR flight plan called for a climb through some 4,000′ of clouds up to a cruise altitude of 7,000 feet.

VOR

Air Facts

JULY 28, 2025

I ended up filing a flight plan a bit further north than the route I’d planned earlier in the week (which took me along the Rhode Island and Connecticut shoreline), due to checking the “previously approved routes” tab on Foreflight. Rhode Island is only an hour’s flight from New York. Light rain.

Clearance

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

It’s technically an IFR procedure, but can be used by any pilot to assure clearance from obstacles. It’s very similar to the obstacle departure procedure and, like the ODP, guarantees clearance from obstacles. Since I filed an IFR flight plan, I requested the Flagstaff One SID.

Density Altitude

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

For example, if we were to takeoff on an airfield at sea level at 0C (32F), it would take 1520ft to reach our obstacle clearance height of 50ft. Whereas for the same airfield on a different day, if it were 30C (86F), that same obstacle clearance height would take 1880ft. That’s an extra 360ft! The post What Is Air Density?

Density Altitude