Clearance Pilot in Command Tail 
Photographic Logbook
JUNE 29, 2025
"Hi.I'm in Delaware." - Wayne Campbell, Wayne's World , 1992 Restless Pilot Syndrome Having resumed acting as pilot in command of my own airplane after a relatively brief setback, I was delighted beyond words to be back at it. When I was passed to Dover Approach, the controller was handing off another pilot in Grumman 716ER.
Flight Training Central
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
For an instrument pilot, though, there is one key difference between a smaller, non-towered airport and a larger one with an air traffic control tower: obtaining an IFR clearance. Call for your IFR clearance, including route, altitude, and transponder code. Here are three ways to get a clearance at a non-towered airport.
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Air Facts
JUNE 24, 2024
To put it in aviation terms, if I told you Bill is a doctor, you might assume he’s flying a V-tail Bonanza. Even at the end, as the right-seat passenger pointed out “we’re sideways,” the pilot was thinking only about the panel, saying “it’ll navigate” and “activate vectors.” The tail failing is simply the final straw.
Photographic Logbook
JANUARY 25, 2025
Today would be his first landing on the ice as pilot in command. Since 2019, pilots in command have been presented with poker chips -- what the Alton Bay crew fittingly call "ice chips" -- commemorating landing at Alton Bay. More vintage cred: a V-tailed Beechcraft Bonanza! Oh, because of the purple.
Professional Pilot
AUGUST 8, 2024
A controller who withholds or issues a late descent clearance is also to blame. Pilots seem to have a compulsion to comply, and doing so reinforces the controller’s errant behavior under the auspices that if nothing bad happens, the aircraft must be capable of doing it.
Universal Weather
JULY 5, 2023
Revisions to annual permits must be made for any changes regarding documentation, tail number, or modification of owner/address/name. CIQ clearance involves deplaning all passengers, crew, and luggage, which may be needed for inbound and outbound operations. CIQ clearance via a GAT or commercial terminal usually takes 30-45 minutes.
Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure
JULY 22, 2024
The camera view of both the landing gear and tail is really an additional bonus especially for aircraft enthusiasts like myself. The flight Map Camera (tail section) Camera view (landing gear section) The safety video featuring a famous local dancer. Well done to the PIC (Pilot-in-command)! Nothing much interest me.
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