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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

Just north of Jefferson City, the Kansas City Center controller cleared us to the Jeff City VOR, which was on the airport, to hold at 4,000 feet. I got out my instrument approach chart and studied the holding pattern and the VOR approach procedure. To continue the approach was no longer an option.

VOR

VOR Weather Approach Runway

Experience in the Chair: Guiding a Twin Beech Home

Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The snow plow operators were happy to be able to go about their clearing operations without having to hold short or vacate runways to wait for arrivals or departures. In the 70s, enroute navigation was usually on VOR Airways (Very High Frequency Omnidirectional Radio).

Weight-Shift-Control

Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment

How to Read an IFR Approach Chart

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Approach minima. Requirements and restrictions for the approach. Airport information, such as the length of the runway and the approach lighting pattern. As a pilot flying this approach, you need to know where to look for the right information at the right time. Communication and navigational radio frequencies.

Approach

Approach Descent Runway Final Approach

RNAV Approaches Simplified: A Guide for New Pilots

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). How do the approaches differ from each other? Type of Guidance Instrument approaches offer two types of navigational guidance. Thats up to you!

Approach

Approach Pilot Descent Airplanes

I Almost Hit the Trees: A Lesson in IFR Vertigo

Air Facts

JUNE 23, 2025

I turned back and entered the holding pattern over the VOR where the approach to Whiting Field began. As each airplane ahead of me began their approach, I descended in the holding pattern. The third one saw the runway but couldn’t land. And a second later—approach lights. Then the runway. Then grass.

Altimeter

Altimeter VOR Approach Runway

How to Fly a VOR Approach: Made Easy

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Are you curious about flying a VOR approach? If you’re aiming to master instrument-rated flying, it’d be valuable to learn about VOR approaches. We’ll cover what a VOR approach is, how to fly it step-by-step, and even whether GPS can replace it in today’s navigation. Ready to make VOR approaches easy?

VOR

VOR Approach Descent Final Approach

Chart Wise: Spirit of St. Louis ILS 26L

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Subscribe Now Featured A) Two Radials Depicted From the STL VOR, there are two radials depicted that intersect with the final approach path—the R-144 and the R-194. Transitioning from the TOY VOR is also a heavy line radial along the R-261 and notes that no procedure turn would be needed (NoPT).

VOR

VOR Final Approach NDB Approach

A Slow Flight to India – Day 3 –Hurghada-Kuwait

ABEAM

JULY 5, 2024

After the necessary paperwork issues, we took off from runway 34R at Hurghada and got cleared to the right over the Red Sea. 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.

VOR

VOR Density Altitude Approach Final Approach

What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack (Part II)

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The instructor was able to complete the turn, but the airplane overshot the runway. The pilot flying wrote, “After completing the turn back to the field we saw the airport environment and we were located over the runway but more than halfway down runway 17. NTSB ERA22LA393 shows an airplane slow on approach that flared high.

Gross Weight

Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot

MDA vs. DA Made Simple: A Guide to IFR Minimums

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Understanding MDA and DA in IFR Approaches How do you land an aircraft if you cant see well because of clouds or fog? Pilots use special paths called IFR approaches to help them line up with the runway. Minimums are the lowest height you can go without seeing the runway. MDA and DA are two types of minimums.

Altimeter

Altimeter Descent Approach Runway

Sweet Dreams

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. Runway and raindrops.

Approach

Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR

How to Brief an Instrument Approach (Step-by-Step)

Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

There are two primary providers for approach plates: the FAA and Jeppesen. The heading contains the city, state, airport, runway, and approach name. An approach plate has four main sections: Pilot briefing information. Final approach course. Approach notes. Missed approach procedures.

Approach

Approach NOTAMs Runway Weather

The Flying Bear Goes to Beantown | Part 4, Going Missed

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. 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. Sometimes I have good luck switching to runway 10." "If

Ceiling

Ceiling Approach Weather Runway

Into the Flight Restricted Zone | Part 1, Of PINs and Prop Locks

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing. As I taxied off the runway, Moe greeted me on Unicom and directed me to a parking spot. I departed runway 33 after double checking that I was broadcasting the correct transponder code. Welcome to College Park!"

Transponder

Transponder Clearance Approach General Aviation

2700 Miles in a Cherokee Six

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. After 50 minutes, we were taxiing to the runway. Planning Pays Off Our takeoff from Santa Fe’s runway 02 went exactly as planned. Our initial climb rate was 500-600 feet/minute.

Density Altitude

Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator

The Key West of Ohio

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. Closer to South Bass Island, the Put-In-Bay Airport (runways 3-21) appeared along the southeastern shore. I turned toward the morning sun to fly south of South Bass Island, descend to pattern altitude, and enter the pattern for runway 21.

Runway

Runway Approach Knot Drag

ATC Communications: What to Say, and When

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

It seemed to continue this way until we finally rolled onto the runway and got to the good part. Enter left downwind Runway 18, report midfield.” ATC needs to know if you heard and understood the instructions correctly, so you need to “read back” what was said: “Enter left downwind Runway 18, report midfield, Cessna 12345.”

Aeronautical Information Manual

Aeronautical Information Manual Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control

ATC Communications: What to Say, and When

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

It seemed to continue this way until we finally rolled onto the runway and got to the good part. Enter left downwind Runway 18, report midfield.” ATC needs to know if you heard and understood the instructions correctly, so you need to “read back” what was said: “Enter left downwind Runway 18, report midfield, Cessna 12345.”

Aeronautical Information Manual

Aeronautical Information Manual Runway Pilot Air Traffic Control

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