Distance Measuring Equipment Final Approach Pilot 
Air Facts
MAY 7, 2025
One of the companies that had acquired surplus Beech 18s had secured a long term contract to carry auto parts from Oshawa to Detroit for General Motors and almost every night around 9 pm, one of those flights would head west full of parts and usually with only the one pilot on board. Such it was in those days.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
An IFR approach chart is a chart that organizes all the information you need to perform a particular IFR approach. Theyre officially called Instrument Approach Procedure (or IAP) charts, but pilots often casually call them approach plates. The procedure for the missed approach. The descent profile.
Pilot Institute
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Sometimes, it seems like the pilots can’t see anything all the way down to the ground. The ILS approach has revolutionized aviation and the types of weather we can fly in. Including how it became the most reliable approach for pilots in aviation history. The ILS is a type of approach pilots use to land.
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