IFR Terminology for VFR Pilots
I am a VFR pilot and purposely vigilant about “seeing and avoiding” other traffic. Frequently, in the pattern at an uncontrolled airport, I will hear IFR traffic broadcasting their location as “over...
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What are advantages/ disadvantages of lowering flaps all at once or in increments?
View ArticleDeparting the Traffic Pattern
According to the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge 13-11, one should depart the pattern at either a 45* left (or 45* right with a right pattern) or straight out. If departing straight out,...
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It’s been 44 years since I obtain my private pilot cert and flow my last flight. Now retired, I want to fly again and working on becoming current.. Here’s the question: Say I am 15 miles due west of an...
View ArticleStandardized Traffic Pattern & Stablized Approach
I’d like to fly a standardized traffic pattern to help enable a stablized approach but here is my question: If an 800′ TPA is published for either a controlled or uncontrolled field, can a 1000′...
View ArticleWhat is a modified base in the pattern?
Today I was in the pattern at a local airport and heard an inbound pilot of a jet announce he was on a “modified” right base. What is a modified base and when is it used? Thanks
View ArticleRight of way
Who has the right of way at an uncontrolled airport? A lower airplane or a glider above it?
View ArticleHolding pattern entry: 2 instead of 3
Can I exchange ‘parallel’ entry maneuver for ‘offset’ (teardrop) or vice versa, since the ATC is care only about that I stay on a safe side of a holding pattern?
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