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? What would you say to them?

VOR

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Sectional view also will give you an indication of the possibility of turbulence, by virtue of your departure path’s proximity to higher terrain and how the wind is blowing across those ridges. Turbulence, as well as updrafts and downdrafts, are of obvious concern near mountainous terrain.

Clearance

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Flight dispatchers also communicate with pilots and update them about weather, turbulence, and other variables that could affect their flight. Does it have GPS, INS, or VOR systems? For example, turbulence could result in a simple flight level change or require a new route.

Weather

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.

Approach

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

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. At one point, we entered a region of sufficient turbulence that I disengaged the autopilot to hand-fly. This was even better than I requested.

Ceiling

Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

Set the ILS, LOC, or VOR frequency required for the approach on your navigation radio. You may also include significant weather conditions, wind shear, or excessive turbulence. Don’t miss this step whenever you brief the approach. Are you flying a radio-based approach?

Approach

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. Bad data caused by turbulence, turns, and other anomalies was discarded. All of our flying started early in the mornings before afternoon turbulence and storms.

Density Altitude

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

We can expect extreme thunderstorms, turbulence, torrential rain, and fog. Turbulence tosses us up, down, and sideways. I ignore him, select three VOR stations, determine our radial from each of them, draw it on the map, and determine our approximate position based on the intersection of the lines. ” He ignores me.

Weather

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

We were IMC with some moderate turbulence when, out of the blue, the prisoner jumped up between us and tried to grab hold of the captain’s gun, which was in his holster. On one occasion, the chief pilot and I were in the Turbo Commander, on a circuit around the country with an inoperative autopilot. We tried and tried, but no joy.

Pilot