Pilot Institute

AUGUST 9, 2024

Most holding fixes are NAVAIDs such as VORs, RNAV (GPS) waypoints, and even ILS markers. When VORs are used as holding fixes, the fix is usually a specific DME distance on a particular radial. If the VOR doesn’t have DME capability, it will be the intersection between two radials from two separate VORs.

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VOR Crosswind Pilot Approach 52

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. Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the gloom.

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Approach Wind Shear Runway VOR 77

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

IFR operations require an operable VOR or TACAN receiver or a suitable RNAV system. Class B Speed Limitations Aircraft flying within the Class B airspace may fly at an indicated airspeed of up to 250 knots.

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Indicated Airspeed Airspace Classes Clearance Pilot in Command 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Because the size of the holding pattern is directly proportional to the speed of the aircraft, maximum holding speeds in knots indicated airspeed (KIAS) have been designated for specific altitude ranges. Maximum holding speeds in knots indicated. Turns in the hold should be standard rate, but not more than 30 degrees.

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Clearance Indicated Airspeed Knot Approach 52

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Because the size of the holding pattern is directly proportional to the speed of the aircraft, maximum holding speeds in knots indicated airspeed (KIAS) have been designated for specific altitude ranges. Maximum holding speeds in knots indicated. Turns in the hold should be standard rate, but not more than 30 degrees.

Clearance 52

Clearance Indicated Airspeed Knot Approach 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

It consists of two independent components VOR and TACAN. LLWS Low-Level Wind Shear An LLWS is defined as a wind shear of 10 knots or more per 100 feet in a layer more than 200 feet thick which occurs within 2000 feet of the surface.

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Pilot Weather Air Traffic Control NOTAMs 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS). This effectively limits traffic in Class B to 250 knots due to 14 CFR § 91.117(a). Traffic flying under a shelf or through a VFR corridor needs to stay below 200 knots. You’ll also have to limit your speed to 200 knots, obeying 14 CFR § 91.117(c).

Clearance 52

Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 52

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.

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NOTAMs Approach Runway Pilot 59

Gary's Flight Journal

MARCH 18, 2024

We departed Ocean City in very strong gusty winds and pointed for Snow Hill VOR. As we reached the mid peninsula we were rocked by strong wind gusts between 40 and 49 knots at six thousand five hundred. Pleasant SC (KLRO)for a fuel and go.There were n o cameras today, I just didn’t feel up for it.

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Weather VOR Hangar Knot 52

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. I configured the airplane the same way as noted on the Piper Climb chart: 105 mph (91 knots), flaps 10 ° , full throttle. An autopilot and Aspen primary flight display reduce workload on long flights.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

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?

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Turbulence Wind Shear Weather Jet 52

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Surface winds are already thirty knots gusting to forty-five. Forecast much stronger, up to one hundred knots.” One hour out, our ground speed is an absurdly slow: seventy knots as indicated by our distance measuring equipment (DME). “My calculations agree with the DME readout of seventy knots.”

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Weather Knot Distance Measuring Equipment Pilot 98

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. We finished breakfast and headed to the airport. With a quick exchange we were on our way, climbing to six thousand, as filed.

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Runway Approach Weather VOR 105

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

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. Serpentine tendrils of mist followed the course of the Genesee River south of Letchworth.

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Runway Approach Knot Drag 89

Gary's Flight Journal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Our ride at six thousand five was smooth despite the brutal headwinds at thirty plus knots. Asking for lower we settled for fifteen to twenty knots still in our face at four thousand five hundred. As we approached Barrett’s Mountain VOR you could make out the mountains ahead.

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Approach Knot VOR Weather 52

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. Behind the front, the headwind relented somewhat and our ground speed rose from the upper 70 knot range to just over 100 knots.

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Clearance Knot Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes 52

Flight Training Central

APRIL 29, 2024

They are generally established below 10,000′ MSL for operations at speeds above 250 knots. VOR, you must complete a special awareness training program and hold a certificate of training completion. Military Training Routes Military Training Routes (MTR) are mutually developed by the FAA and the Department of Defense.

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Clearance AGL NOTAMs Pilot 111