Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Subscribe Now Featured A) Two Radials Depicted From the STL VOR, there are two radials depicted that intersect with the final approach path—the R-144 and the R-194. Transitioning from the TOY VOR is also a heavy line radial along the R-261 and notes that no procedure turn would be needed (NoPT).

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Ask a Flight Instructor

AUGUST 30, 2024

So fly runway heading to 4000 expect vectors in 10 min. Would I do a turn to the CLT/VOR then outbound on the R-255 OR would ground give specific instructions? I fly into KCLT for some Class B practice. As normal I am assigned the Knights Three. BUT if I was assigned the DEBIE transition how would I fly it?

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Runway Changes (or Closure) Where possible, airplanes normally like to land in the wind. If the wind changes significantly, the airport authority may decide to change the runway. Yep, those runway numbers do mean something. Is that it?

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Airport information, such as the length of the runway and the approach lighting pattern. FAA charts also add an airport diagram section showing the runway layout and lighting information. Airport/Runway Information Box This section first provides basic information about the approach. Approach minima. Hazards in the area.

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Air Facts

JUNE 4, 2025

Taxiing to Runway 06, I ran through the before-takeoff checklist: fuel selector both, flaps up, mixture rich, lights on. I tuned the Manila VOR to confirm my position and set up the next waypoint. The METAR and TAF showed CAVOK along most of the route, with a mention of scattered clouds near Bohol by late morning.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

If utilizing Runway 17 with left traffic, the crosswind turn will be heading 080, downwind 350, base 260, etc. Don’t accept the excuses of “I can’t fly if I can’t see the runway,” or “I can’t feel the airplane.” Next, introduce the VOR. Note the 90-degree marks on the heading indicator as these help with orientation.

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Crosswind VOR Airplanes Runway 111

ABEAM

JULY 5, 2024

After the necessary paperwork issues, we took off from runway 34R at Hurghada and got cleared to the right over the Red Sea. Hurghada Approach passed us off to Cairo Control and they refused to give us a direct to the first Saudi VOR WEJ at the east side of the Red Sea due to unknown reasons.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Before RNAV, pilots had to rely on radios (NAVAIDs) and antennas on the ground such as VORs (Very High-Frequency Omnidirectional Range) and NDBs (Non-Directional Beacons). Lateral guidance tells you to go left or right to align yourself with the runway. If you dont see the runway before reaching MOLRE, you have to go missed.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

An instrument rating unlocks access to: Airports with IFR approaches (ILS, RNAV, VOR, etc.) Theres nothing quite like breaking out of a thick layer of clouds to find the runway right where it should beor shooting a perfect RNAV approach to minimums. A busy Class B airport? A mountain valley where clouds sit low over the ridges?

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Though its rare, your destination airport could become unusable due to a thunderstorm moving in, or a disabled airplane on the runway. To be clear, you are not required to declare an alternate airport in any official capacity flying VFR, but rather you should have a few airports in mind along the way and near your destination.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The instructor was able to complete the turn, but the airplane overshot the runway. The pilot flying wrote, “After completing the turn back to the field we saw the airport environment and we were located over the runway but more than halfway down runway 17. Difficulty in seeing the runway where the return was desired.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 13, 2025

You can use the CDI with navigation aids like VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) or GPS. We wont explain technical details, so you may not understand the example if you havent used a VOR. Imagine were flying an HSI-equipped airplane away from VOR. Q: What is the difference between a VOR and a HSI? Airport signs!

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WayMan

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This is a predetermined routing path of an aircraft from the departure runway onto an enroute airway. For example, a typical SID could read: “Fly runway heading to 3,000 feet, then radar vectors to the airway.” For example, “Fly runway heading to 3,000 feet, then DIRECT XYZ VOR.”

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Flying Magazine

MAY 13, 2024

So, for example, if you are asked to provide a scenario when V X is appropriate, be able to answer the when and the why, such as “short field takeoff technique is appropriate when there is an obstacle off the departure end of the runway.” Application, correlation, and understanding are critical when it comes to aircraft systems.

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Gary's Flight Journal

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since I was tracking the VOR I decided to knock out a VOR check, flying the Waterloo 171 degree radial to the IAF FEMOD. I once again broke off early and joined the left downwind for runway 20 making an ok landing, dropping it on instead of rolling it on. Next I identified the localizer I-OXB and continued.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Pilots use special paths called IFR approaches to help them line up with the runway. Minimums are the lowest height you can go without seeing the runway. This is like DA but measured from the runway’s height above sea level. The lowest altitude the pilot can fly without seeing the runway is the MDA.

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Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Though it’s rare, your destination airport could become unusable due to a thunderstorm moving in, or a disabled airplane on the runway. To be clear, you are not required to declare an alternate airport in any official capacity flying VFR, but rather you should have a few airports in mind along the way and near your destination.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The flying club’s Cessnas and Pipers stood out like a flock of scrawny pigeons as the eagles of Pan Am, TWA, British Airways, and the like lumbered by on their way to and from the runways. After startup, I’d record a VOR check in the aircraft log while waiting for our clearance. Then came the long taxi to the runway.

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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. Runway and raindrops.

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Air Facts

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The VOR was useless, so I was now flying IFD (I Follow Directions) zig zagging across the country getting new vectors from time to time. On the morning of the race while eating breakfast at the Waffle House located near the short final flight path, flights were coming in on runways 23L and 23R, landing less than a minute apart.

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iPad Pilot News

JUNE 3, 2025

and any adjustments to be made (runway lighting out of service, remote altimeter setting, etc.). Details shows communication frequencies, runway length, general notes, and expiration dates. This includes inbound course, DA/MDA, runway lighting (with a helpful graphic to decode the acronym), runway length, and touchdown zone elevation.

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2024

That’s because each one assists you in navigating to the runway based on the weather and your aircraft equipment. When flying an LPV approach, your GPS provides accurate vertical and lateral guidance as low as 200 feet above the runway. Always have a backup (ILS/VOR). How does LPV offer ILS-like accuracy?

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If you take off from Runway 27, you intercept and track the PDZ R-030 radial inbound and make a direct entry tracking the PDZ R-078 radial outbound, using non-standard left turns. If you take off from Runway 9, you would intercept and track the PDZ R-093 radial inbound, execute a parallel entry, and then track the PDZ R-078 outbound.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

We made an IFR departure that morning on runway 16 and climbed above the ceiling in short order. We were assigned a slightly ridiculous alteration to the route I filed: MANCH T316 LAMMS T608 ROC that had us flying past Sodus to the Rochester VOR before setting up for Sodus. Sometimes I have good luck switching to runway 10." "If

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

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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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For example: Pilot: Seattle Approach, Cessna November Four Five One Romeo, Two Zero miles west of Seattle VOR, at 8,000, with Sierra, to land. The departure runway and the departure procedure. For example, ATC: Fly runway heading until two miles from Kennedy VOR, then turn right, heading one zero zero.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

The heading contains the city, state, airport, runway, and approach name. Are there runway closures? ATIS broadcasts usually include active runways, available approaches, important NOTAMs, and the weather. 1) Declare the Approach Start by identifying the name of the airport, the arrival runway, and the approach name.

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Flight Training Central

MAY 23, 2024

A non-towered field with a shorter runway will challenge you and help you hone your aim-point on landings. If you’re having trouble with cross country flights or VOR and GPS tracking, fly with your instructor to an early breakfast. It will be fun to be at an airport with bigger, faster aircraft to see.

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Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The shape of the surface area and layers are tailored to the individual airport and the instrument approach corridors to its runways. IFR operations require an operable VOR or TACAN receiver or a suitable RNAV system. As you move further from the primary airport, layers or shelves that start above the surface will be found.

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Gary's Flight Journal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I was thinking I was going to be vectored for runway two seven but she seemed content to send us out over the ocean. 7 IMC, finally breaking out into VFR as we approached the CVI VOR. Hovering over the CCV Cape Charles VOR was a line of building clouds. It felt good to relax a bit, at least until we crossed the Chesapeake Bay.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Just north of the Selinsgrove VOR, Harrisburg called with the first change in routing. As I taxied off the runway, Moe greeted me on Unicom and directed me to a parking spot. I departed runway 33 after double checking that I was broadcasting the correct transponder code. No problem, I had that covered. Welcome to College Park!"

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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. After 50 minutes, we were taxiing to the runway. Planning Pays Off Our takeoff from Santa Fe’s runway 02 went exactly as planned. Our initial climb rate was 500-600 feet/minute.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

We were cleared direct to College Park via the Westminster VOR (EMI). dove for pattern altitude, and managed the noise sensitive areas around the airport as best we could by entering the pattern on a midfield crosswind for runway 33. Tough room. It was such a trivial change that it did not impact our inbound heading.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Airports such as ATL and JFK have multiple runways and cover around 5,000 acres of land. If flying under IFR, you’ll need a VOR or TACAN receiver, or an RNAV system (GPS). You’ll always find a steady stream of airliners queued up for departure and arrival. Class B airports are not only busy, they’re usually big as well.

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Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Since then, the former airbase has seen its runways either truncated (9-27), deleted (15-33), or transformed into taxiways (4-22). Today, it is home to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM, part of the broader Ingenium collection of museums in Ottawa) housed within a 1988 facility built along former runway 22 (taxiway D).

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Gary's Flight Journal

MAY 3, 2024

I launched from runway three-two and pointed for the Snow Hill VOR. We flew on top of a scattered turned broken layer having to descend through it to break out for the visual approach runway two-three into our fuel stop at Grand Strand KCRE. On departure I flew runway heading for a good distance. Ok, enough rambling.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 9, 2025

READ MORE: Aeronautical Decision Making Is Never One Size Fits All Our incident in the Vision Jet occurred while flying the ILS Z Runway 19 approach into Jackson, Wyoming (KJAC), which is a favorite airport of mine with its scenic mountains, meadows, and streams along the way.

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