Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We no longer need to worry about identifying VORs and dialing in the right radial, but we do need to worry about that thunderstorm sitting right on top of our direct route or the low ceiling at our destination. Book work and sim time really do pay off. Communicate sounds self-explanatory, and it mostly is.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Approach Airplanes 95

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

The hold over “Kingston” VOR? Holding patterns are a great way to keep your position and ensure clearance from terrain and other aircraft. Usually, it will be a ground-based navigational aid such as a VOR or NDB. Hold Altitude Holding procedures, flown correctly, will always allow for sufficient terrain clearance.

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Airplanes Crosswind Approach Knot 52

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. When an air carrier declares an emergency due to a loss of a VOR or other instrumentation, I get an email. Although NTSB 830.5 Although NTSB 830.5

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Pilot Air Traffic Control Cockpit Airplanes 69

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.

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VOR Density Altitude Approach Final Approach 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Next, introduce the VOR. Have them use the VOR to determine what radial they are on, and if the unit has DME, show you where they are on a sectional. For an extra level of challenge, reposition the virtual airplane and have the learner use the VORs to determine where they are using triangulation. Keep it realistic.

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Crosswind VOR Airplanes Runway 111

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

IFR Alternate Airport Planning While every IFR flight requires you to file an IFR flight plan and receive an ATC clearance, not every flight is flown in IFR conditions. While every IFR flight requires you to file an IFR flight plan and receive an ATC clearance, not every flight is flown in IFR conditions.

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Ceiling Weather Approach Flight Plan 52

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Use the CRAFT acronym to note down departure clearances quickly. You may be asking for a clearance or reporting your position. For example: Pilot: Seattle Approach, Cessna November Four Five One Romeo, Two Zero miles west of Seattle VOR, at 8,000, with Sierra, to land. is talking to Dallas Clearance Delivery.

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Approach Clearance Pilot Aeronautical Information Manual 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Departure procedures are designed primarily to provide obstacle clearance. Departure procedures are designed primarily to provide obstacle clearance and should be used when published. Provided nothing else has been specifically assigned, ODPs may be flown without an ATC clearance.

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Clearance Turbulence Density Altitude Weather 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

When controllers anticipate a delay, usually due to a high volume of traffic, weather, or both, pilots are usually issued a holding clearance. When ATC issues a clearance requiring you to hold at a fix where a holding pattern is not charted, pilots are issued complete holding instructions.

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Clearance Indicated Airspeed Knot Approach 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

No ATC clearance is required for VFR flights below 10,000 feet. They allow you enough clearance to see and avoid other airplanes. Most importantly, you do not require clearance or need to talk to a controller for VFR under 10,000 feet. These airways help guide IFR and VFR aircraft from one navaid/VOR to another.

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Airspace Classes AGL VOR Clearance 52

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

An ATC clearance is required for operations within Class B airspace. IFR operations require an operable VOR or TACAN receiver or a suitable RNAV system. An aircraft can operate in these corridors without a clearance from or communication with ATC. Like other types of airspace, Class B is considered regulatory in nature.

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Indicated Airspeed Airspace Classes Clearance Pilot in Command 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When controllers anticipate a delay at a clearance limit or fix, usually due to a high volume of traffic, weather, or both, pilots are usually issued a holding clearance. When ATC issues a clearance requiring you to hold at a fix where a holding pattern is not charted, pilots are issued complete holding instructions.

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Clearance Indicated Airspeed Knot Approach 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Pilots must meet equipment and certification requirements and have ATC clearance to enter. Operating Requirements in Class B Airspace Operational Requirements VFR traffic needs explicit clearance to enter Bravo airspace. If you’re flying under IFR, you don’t need an explicit Bravo clearance. What is Class B Airspace?

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Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

Chapter 3 in the AIM has details on dimensions of airspace, cloud clearances, and visibility. Use Your Reference Material While there is an awful lot of information for a pilot to remember, one of the most important skills you can have is knowing where to look up something to verify the information.

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Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

Most holding fixes are NAVAIDs such as VORs, RNAV (GPS) waypoints, and even ILS markers. When VORs are used as holding fixes, the fix is usually a specific DME distance on a particular radial. If the VOR doesn’t have DME capability, it will be the intersection between two radials from two separate VORs.

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VOR Crosswind Pilot Approach 52

Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 14, 2024

While every IFR flight requires you to file an IFR flight plan and receive an ATC clearance, not every flight is flown in IFR conditions. A nearby airport at a lower altitude may provide additional clearance under a cloud layer (with the caveat that it could be prone to fog if near a body of water).

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Ceiling Pilot Weather Approach 98

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The tricky part is that you are expected to proceed on course after reaching 5,000′ MSL, so technically, this is sort of your “expect further clearance” information. Santa Monica Municipal (KSMO) has a fix called DARTS, located on V-186, that serves as the intermediate fix for the RNAV 21 and the VOR-A approaches.

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Aeronautical Information Manual VOR Approach Air Traffic Control 52

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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WayMan

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

” Besides separation, SIDs give way clearances and assure safe aircraft separation during the departure phase. For example, “Fly runway heading to 3,000 feet, then DIRECT XYZ VOR.” The purpose of a SID is to make standardizing departure procedures easier so that pilots are not constantly receiving instructions from ATC.

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Pilot Instrument Flight Rules Runway VOR 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Flying at MSA guarantees at least 1,000 feet of obstacle clearance. Non-precision approaches (such as a localizer, VOR, LNAV, or NDB) use a Maltese cross for the FAF. MSAs are used in emergencies. If you lose your bearings and are struggling to find the airport, you dont want to hit something accidentally.

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Approach Descent Runway Final Approach 52

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.

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Pilot Weather Air Traffic Control NOTAMs 52

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). LP+V approaches dont always account for obstacle clearance, so theyre not an officially protected procedure. You wont find any mention of LP+V on an approach plate.

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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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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

After startup, I’d record a VOR check in the aircraft log while waiting for our clearance. We flew the usual approaches: VOR, ILS, and the now extinct NDB. We rounded up the usual suspects: VOR, NDB, ILS, partial panel, and unusual attitudes. Then came the long taxi to the runway. After an hour of that, we went flying.

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Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I called the clearance delivery number on the OXB NOTAM but they gave me another number to call. I could not get my Bluetooth headset to connect so the I tucked the iPhone up under my ear seal and picked up my clearance and release. I decided to depart VFR and pick up my clearance in the air if I needed it.

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Clearance VOR Weather Approach 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I contacted Rochester Approach, the controller came back with, "Are you looking for your clearance to College Park?" I answered in the affirmative, received my clearance, and was given a climb to 6,000 feet as the rain streaked over my windscreen. Shouldn't he have my full clearance? I made the call before engine start.

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Transponder Clearance Approach General Aviation 52

Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

The written test had 25 questions and the hardest thing on the practical was explaining what VOR was and how it worked. I was beginning to make small mistakes when copying clearances or even remembering frequencies-an incorrect digit, a readback that faltered or wasn’t perfect. Infrequent but noticeable.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

Does the approach match the clearance? Set the ILS, LOC, or VOR frequency required for the approach on your navigation radio. It also serves as a final opportunity to catch any misunderstanding among the crew. 1) Declare the Approach Start by identifying the name of the airport, the arrival runway, and the approach name.

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Approach NOTAMs Runway Weather 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six Navigation equipment includes a Garmin GNS-530W GPS navigator and two VOR receivers for secondary navigation. It’s technically an IFR procedure, but can be used by any pilot to assure clearance from obstacles. For this trip, the middle row seats were removed to make the cabin a 1st class four-seater.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

Long story short, when I received my clearance that evening, it was to my originally intended BELTS waypoint.) We were cleared direct to College Park via the Westminster VOR (EMI). We reunited with Simon before making our cellphone calls to Potomac for departure clearances. Tough room. Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, PA.

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Pilot Flight Plan Air Traffic Control General Aviation 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I filed a route of BRUIN to ART (Watertown VOR) to Kingston to avoid overflying significant portions of Lake Ontario. Kingston Radio provided updated weather conditions while sequencing traffic like a tower with the exception that no landing clearances were given. What the Heck is a LANRK? I had a schedule to keep. How can that be?

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Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. I already had set up for Patuxent approach so I switched from CTAF to Pax to pick up my clearance. Once south of Myrtle Beach I was turned direct Charleston VOR. I picked up my clearance, made sure oil is up to temp, then called for taxi instructions.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 26, 2024

Practice requesting and receiving clearances. Before you request your first clearance, follow these inflight tips. Be Ready to Receive the Clearance After you have requested a clearance from ATC, ensure you are ready to receive it. First, be mentally prepared for the clearance. Who you are. Where you are.

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Clearance Runway Approach Pilot 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In a prior telephone conversation with the Rockliffe Flying Club, I was assured that I could pick up my IFR clearance in the air from Ottawa Terminal and planned to do exactly that. My filed route to Ogdensburg was via YOW (the Ottawa VOR) and IKLAX. Though completely unintentional, I liked the effect and kept it.

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Approach Clearance Airplanes Runway 52

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Off Sodus, I briefly leveled at 2,500 feet to remain visual until I received my instrument clearance from Rochester Approach. Fortunately, the clearance was a simple one that morning because I was absurdly tongue tied while talking to Rochester. Serpentine tendrils of mist followed the course of the Genesee River south of Letchworth.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Once the rain relented, we staggered our departures and called for our IFR clearances on the ground. Despite those ground clearances, we found that the ceiling above our home airport was high enough to accommodate VFR departures with airborne clearances. Better safe than sorry. That was a good plan.

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Clearance Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

There are a wide variety of options on the market, ranging from simple radios to units with GPS/VOR navigation features and full ILS capabilities. In addition to your aircraft’s installed radio systems, handheld radios provide an important layer of safety and redundancy in case of radio failure.

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