Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

The equipment was often not much modernized from the military days so the pilots likely hoped for good weather as they filed their flight plans. Such it was in those days. It was common practice for tower controllers to monitor the area control centre enroute frequency. The Tower had no radar.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2024

(Explaining Each in Simple Terms) LPV, LNAV, and VNAV are three navigation types that provide Global Positioning System (GPS) based instrument approach guidance for your aircraft. That’s because each one assists you in navigating to the runway based on the weather and your aircraft equipment. What factors affect VNAV?

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Ask the Pilot

JUNE 28, 2024

The pilots, the flight attendants, and their aircraft were dispatched, flight-planned, and fueled for a trip to Edinburgh. In addition to whatever human errors catalyze such events, weather and air traffic control (ATC), to name two, can lend a hand in getting from point A to, as it were, point C. angle irresistible.

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