Photographic Logbook

MAY 25, 2025

Living among the Great Lakes means that the weather risks that I find most concerning cycle with the seasons; icing when it's cold, thunderstorms when it's hot. Both were immediately on board, but the weather was not. Weather conditions enabled capturing some magnificent images along the route, familiar as it was.

OAT

Professional Pilot

APRIL 3, 2025

in high-resolution displays that can depict data link graphical weather, terrain, electronic charts and map overlays, electronic checklists, multi-scan radar, and synoptics pages. One of the best examples thats currently in service is the Gulfstream G280. Powerful baseline features incorporate 3 15.1-in

Cockpit

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

” This is especially common when flying in IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions) —like clouds or fog—when you can’t see outside. Reduce Risks Avoid flying if weather conditions are worsening. The mismatch between what you see (or don’t see) and what you feel can make you become disoriented.

Runway

Pilot Institute

MARCH 7, 2025

Familiarize yourself with your aircraft, review your intended route, and assess the latest weather conditions. Weather Weather is no small factor in flying, and it has caused many accidents. Since weather can change quickly, always check the reports before takeoff. Clouds can hide mountains and other obstacles.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

MAY 24, 2025

Over the next couple of weeks, the pilot demonstrated good decision making by not flying back up to New Hampshire, putting off the flight several times due to poor weather. He met with his friend at the airport, and while it was a benign fall day in New England, with VFR weather en route, the CFI counseled against the flight.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Northstar VFR

MARCH 23, 2025

Weather, hazardous conditions, wind, or a congested pattern can also add challenges to the approach making it more likely to be unstable. No Visual References This scenario is particularly true for instrument pilots flying in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC).

Pilot

AOPA

APRIL 8, 2025

Special Flight Rules Area), flying under instrument flight rules in instrument meteorological conditions bound for General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport in Boston—without being able to conduct a radio check on the ground because Potomac had no unicom.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Northstar VFR

MAY 16, 2024

By Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI Technology in aviation has advanced tremendously since the early days of flying, but one thing has not changed: the weather. Perhaps one of the reasons is that the abundance of weather products available on the internet, TV, handbooks , etc. You should have your personal weather minimums written down.

Weather

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

Post-accident examination of the engine revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunction or failure that would have precluded normal operation, however, the weather conditions at the time of the accident were conducive to the formation of serious carburetor icing at idle power. The aircraft collided with a berm.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Jetwhine

JUNE 24, 2024

for my ACS motivation), has led me to an FAA advisory circular, Use of Flight Deck Displays of Digital Weather and Aeronautical Information. What I remember as weather and traffic services are now METI and AI. Thus, pilots should only use data link weather radar images for broad strategic avoidance of adverse weather.”

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

CFI Academy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

CFI Academy presents an exhilarating opportunity for aviation enthusiasts with our 2-Week Instrument Rating (IR) Course. Designed to enhance your abilities and ensure safe flying in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) weather, this intensive program is your key to mastering the skies.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

Approaching their destination, the pilot asked Memphis Center ATC for an airport weather report. Ran into weather. The pilot requested weather reports for Paragould (KPGR) and Jonesboro (KJBR) airports. There was VFR weather to the west, so they turned right, climbed up to 4,000 feet, and headed west. Can’t see anything.”

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 9, 2024

Approaching their destination, the pilot asked Memphis Center ATC for an airport weather report. Ran into weather. The pilot requested weather reports for Paragould (KPGR) and Jonesboro (KJBR) airports. There was VFR weather to the west, so they turned right, climbed up to 4,000 feet, and headed west. Can’t see anything.”

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Professional Pilot

JANUARY 2, 2025

The head-up guidance system (HGS) further improves visibility by overlaying critical flightpath data within the pilots forward field of view, even in foggy or reduced visibility conditions. The fully automated MultiScan weather radar also provides predictive analysis and advanced threat detection.

Flight Deck

Northstar VFR

JANUARY 4, 2023

by Gustin Robinson, FAA CFI-I ASEL Flying under instrument meteorological conditions keeps even a good pilot on their toes. But now, while flying in low visibility and overcast cloud layers, you have to rely on your instrumentation more than ever before and keep your eyes inside the airplane.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

However, the static pressure around the pitot tube is constantly changing due to altitude and weather. One thing a pilot must keep in mind is that changes in weather conditions along their route causes changes in the atmospheric pressure, regardless of maintaining the same indicated altitude.

Pitot Tube

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Aeronautical experience in the regulations does not require that you have any actual instrument flight time to obtain your instrument rating. That’s correct, you can earn your instrument rating with flight time only in simulated conditions. The next and more complicated step is to try seeking out these conditions.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

From flight planning, I knew that we would experience rain, instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and darkness. Mitigating factors included no risk of convection (thunderstorms) or icing at our cruise altitude of 5,000 feet and VFR conditions expected to prevail at Saratoga Springs for our landing.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Regulatory Requirements for Instrument Currency Instrument Currency Basics To maintain instrument currency, the FAA mandates that within the preceding six months, a pilot must have performed and logged at least six instrument approaches, holding procedures, and intercepting and tracking courses using navigational systems.

Instrument Flight Rules

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

However, a forecast for low IFR weather in that part of Maine led us to cancel it. I had no interest in flying one hour north only to be shut out of our destination by weather below minimums for the available instrument approach procedure. We spent some time in instrument meteorological conditions over Vermont.

Ceiling

Professional Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Pilots can practice instrument procedures, cockpit resource management, and adverse weather handling, among many other skills. Helicopter courses include surviving inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), advanced energy management, and advanced cockpit resource management.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

This is often the result of the aircraft picking up excessive airspeed as a result of pilot disorientation in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), followed by an abrupt pitch-up after exiting the bottom of the cloud. There has been no information to date on what avionics and autopilot might have been installed.

Tail

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

This is often the result of the aircraft picking up excessive airspeed as a result of pilot disorientation in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), followed by an abrupt pitch-up after exiting the bottom of the cloud. There has been no information to date on what avionics and autopilot might have been installed.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Of course, you don’t need one to fly cross-country, or to use advanced avionics, but it would make these sorts of business cross-countries less susceptible to some weather delays. And this summer afternoon did have weather. The Saratoga, like most single-engine piston aircraft, was not equipped with a weather radar dish.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

But getting there from Rochester, NY is never a simple task and not only requires the runway to be open with favorable conditions, but the weather between here and there must be amenable to a six hour round trip there and back again. Ed diverted south of the weather and made it through VFR. These were immediately granted.

Runway

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

Unfortunately, several are involved in aircraft accidents in which adverse mountain weather is a contributing factor. Mountain flying carries a unique set of weather risks, often compounded by short and narrow runways and approaches that force pilots to thread the proverbial needle through steep valleys and unforgiving terrain.

Crosswind

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 13, 2023

Kristy overheard one of the local airport bums providing an excellent layman's explanation of weather minimums and missed approaches to help the waiting passengers understand what just happened. The weather was visibly lifting and he assured them that their chartered aircraft would return. Almost home.

Approach

Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

Weather Go-arounds due to weather occur due to wind shear caused by gusting winds or microbursts. The risk of losing control is higher in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) or at night. So, it’s important to use the flight instruments to maintain control.

Wind Shear

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 28, 2023

As our trip to Sleepy Hollow neared, forecasts for IFR weather inspired a shuffling of airplanes and pilots so that our seven adventurers were distributed among three IFR-capable airplanes with current IFR pilots. Eventually, we passed through the cold front that had pushed the dismal weather into Sodus that morning.

Clearance