Clearance Turbulence VOR 
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. I filed my IFR flight plan, received a clearance and took off into the gray winter sky. Phil was a cool head under pressure.
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.
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Air Facts
JUNE 4, 2025
With takeoff clearance from the tower, I pushed the throttle forward. I tuned the Manila VOR to confirm my position and set up the next waypoint. As I re-entered the clouds, turbulence increased. The turbulence wasnt extremelight to moderatebut inside that gray cocoon, time slowed. I filed my flight plan and headed out.
Pilot Institute
MARCH 6, 2025
In contrast to a control tower, an FSS is not responsible for giving instructions or clearances to aircraft. It consists of two independent components VOR and TACAN. This means that the weather provides enough visibility and cloud clearance for pilots to navigate and maintain separation using visual cues.
Flight Training Central
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
The Sectional view also will give you an indication of the possibility of turbulence, by virtue of your departure path’s proximity to higher terrain and how the wind is blowing across those ridges. Departure procedures are designed primarily to provide obstacle clearance.
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.
Photographic Logbook
JULY 11, 2024
We were assigned a slightly ridiculous alteration to the route I filed: MANCH T316 LAMMS T608 ROC that had us flying past Sodus to the Rochester VOR before setting up for Sodus. But I accepted the clearance knowing that I could change it with a local Approach control like Syracuse. This was even better than I requested.
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