Flight Plan, Knot and VOR - Aviator Connection

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 31, 2025

My first logbook entry in 1992 records a flight in a Beechcraft Skipper , its compact cockpit and low-wing design thrilling for a novice pilot. Aviation then was a realm of VOR needles, paper charts, and the pure joy of stick-and-rudder flight. Its JMB Connect app streamlines flight planning and maintenance.

VOR

VOR Cockpit Knot Weather

Trial by Ice

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

The Cessna 150 Since I was the only instrument rated pilot on the team, and the weather was marginal VFR, I chose to fly the 172, N7358G, up to Fairfield on an IFR flight plan above the clouds at 7,000 feet. My IFR flight plan called for a climb through some 4,000′ of clouds up to a cruise altitude of 7,000 feet.

VOR

VOR Weather Approach Runway

Drone Lingo Simplified: Acronyms Every Pilot Needs To Know

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

Pilots are required to check for NOTAMs along their relevant routes or locations before the start of a flight. NOTAMs are very important in that they can provide information that can cause a pilot to change their flight plans, such as Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs) or an airport that has become temporarily unavailable.

Pilot

Pilot Weather Air Traffic Control NOTAMs

Clear Air Turbulence: How It Happens and How to Handle It

Pilot Institute

MAY 26, 2025

” This usually means the wind change is stronger than what the aircraft is built to handle safely, like sudden airspeed changes of more than 15 knots or vertical speed shifts over 500 feet per minute. Clear air turbulence usually becomes more likely when wind speeds in the jet stream reach around 110 knots. Sound familiar?

Turbulence

Turbulence Wind Shear Weather Jet

Pilot’s Guide to Special Use Airspace (SUA)

Flight Training Central

JUNE 16, 2025

They are generally established below 10,000′ MSL for operations at speeds above 250 knots. Special flight rules provide for general aviation operations within the area. Before entering the airspace, you must file and activate a flight plan and contact ATC for a transponder code. SFRA flight plan.

Clearance

Clearance AGL NOTAMs Pilot

Don’t Sim Like You Fly

AV Web

JUNE 24, 2025

If I’m taking off from RWY 31L, the minimum climb gradient is 386 feet per NM which at 100 knots is 643 FPM—no issue for the Arrow (or even a 172 for that matter) with a field elevation just under 500 FT. That’s the beauty of flight sim.

Weather

Weather Approach VOR AGL

Flight Sims for the Win: It’s All About Repetition and Drill

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Scenario 4: Crosswinds If only flight instructors could control the weather, we’d have the learners practicing crosswind takeoffs and landings on a regular basis. It might be no greater than 6 knots with gusts to 10 mph. Then the CFI should increase the winds so they are 10 knots (or more) above the demonstrated crosswind component.

Crosswind

Crosswind VOR Airplanes Runway

What Are the 10 Hardest FAA Private Pilot Written Exam Questions?

Plane and Pilot

JULY 16, 2024

Example question: How long will it take to travel 35 nautical miles at a ground speed of 105 knots? These graphs will look very similar to graphs found in your aircraft’s pilot operating handbook that are used for flight planning. You don’t need a full sim to practice using VORs, though.

Density Altitude

Density Altitude Pilot Center of Gravity VOR

Sweet Dreams

Photographic Logbook

APRIL 19, 2024

However, there was a presidential TFR (temporary flight restriction) around Scranton that lay on a direct line between Sodus and Philly. It added less than 10 minutes to the overall flight time. The reroute was minimal, an insertion of Yardley VOR (ARD) into my flight plan. Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the gloom.

Approach

Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR

Garmin SmartCharts: a pilot’s guide to interactive instrument charts

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 3, 2025

Take the recent high profile crash of a Cessna Citation on approach to San Diego (MYF): its obvious from the Minimums section of the SmartChart that this approach cannot be flown at a speed above 120 knots, since the boxes for C, D, and E are blacked out. Take the Minimum Safe Altitude (MSA) for the ILS 21L at Cincinnati Lunken.

NOTAMs

NOTAMs Approach Runway Airplanes

Vero Beach Vacation and Gear Issue

Gary's Flight Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

The Weather Watch Some of my go to weather pages have changed or gone away but I have been working on some new to me weather tools for my cross country flight planning. Pre-Flight It's the day before departure and I am going to complete my preflight and fuel sump. Sunday 3.10

Weather

Weather VOR Hangar Knot

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. An autopilot and Aspen primary flight display reduce workload on long flights. Time To Fly Our aircraft can cruise for about 4 ½ hours plus an hour of reserve fuel at 130 knots.

Density Altitude

Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator

The Key West of Ohio

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

During flight planning, I determined that 8,000 feet would provide the best wind advantage of the available preferred westbound IFR cruise altitudes. West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. Looking north to the east end of Lake Erie and Buffalo, NY.

Runway

Runway Approach Knot Drag

Savannah, Georgia

Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. Once south of Myrtle Beach I was turned direct Charleston VOR. Mary had the garlic knots along with the Italian chop salad. My next step is entering my flight plan on the Garmin 480. We finished breakfast and headed to the airport. We were stuffed!

Runway

Runway Approach VOR Weather

Asheville, NC and the Biltmore Estate

Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I completed my pre flight with only needing to sump fuel on departure day. My Garmin 480 is updated and I have my flight plan ready for entry after planning on Foreflight. Our ride at six thousand five was smooth despite the brutal headwinds at thirty plus knots. Saturday 11.4 Monday 11.6 Wednesday 11.8

Approach

Approach Knot VOR Weather

In Search of the Headless Horseman

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

We flew at 7,000 feet with as much as a 30 knot tailwind. Tom and I filed via the Rockdale VOR, which was a starting point on the Nobbi Five arrival procedure used in the greater New York area. At Million Air, I helped myself to a Coke while I filed an IFR flight plan home. (In

Clearance

Clearance Instrument Meteorological Conditions Knot Airplanes

Pilot’s guide to special use airspace

Flight Training Central

APRIL 29, 2024

They are generally established below 10,000′ MSL for operations at speeds above 250 knots. Special flight rules provide for general aviation operations within the area. Before entering the airspace, you must file and activate a flight plan and contact ATC for a transponder code. SFRA flight plan.

Clearance

Clearance AGL NOTAMs Pilot

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