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Drone Lingo Simplified: Acronyms Every Pilot Needs To Know

Pilot Institute

NOTAM Notice to Airmen A NOTAM is a notice that contains essential information to alert pilots of potential hazards at a specific location or along a flight route. NOTAMs are publicly available. Pilots are required to check for NOTAMs along their relevant routes or locations before the start of a flight.

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Pilot’s Guide to Special Use Airspace (SUA)

Flight Training Central

It’s important to check the NOTAMs if you’ll be flying around these areas as some of the dimensions change in size. They are generally established below 10,000′ MSL for operations at speeds above 250 knots. Check the NOTAM’s for the latest information. If you see this, you should immediately contact ATC.

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

iPad Pilot News

Bottom right NOTAMs will show only the NOTAMs that are relevant to the approach youre flying, a major convenience at big airports where the list of NOTAMs can be a mile long (meaning you miss a potentially important one). If you want to see every last NOTAM, simply tap the text button that appears above the NOTAMs button.

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The Key West of Ohio

Photographic Logbook

West of the Geneseo VOR, I passed high above Silver Lake and the gorge in Letchworth State Park. As I passed Kelley's Island, wind streaks in the water out of the southwest indicated a wind of six to eight knots, exactly as forecast. The latter explained why the runway lights were NOTAMed out of service.)

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Pilot’s guide to special use airspace

Flight Training Central

It’s important to check the NOTAMs if you’ll be flying around these areas as some of the dimensions change in size. They are generally established below 10,000′ MSL for operations at speeds above 250 knots. Check the NOTAM’s for the latest information. If you see this, you should immediately contact ATC.