Many checklists and instrument approach procedures come with notes. These notes appear within the checklists in your aircraft's flight manual, and they are displayed in a box just under the frequency, course, and elevation box on an instrument approach procedure chart.
Longtime AOPA partner Sporty’s announced on February 3 its acquisition of another longtime AOPA partner, PilotWorkshops, a provider of online training courses since 2005.
You’ve seen the message blinking on your GPS or primary flight display as you approach a waypoint along your route: “Left to 180 degrees in 10 sec.” If the autopilot is flying, you watch as it smoothly intercepts the next segment of an airway, feeder route, or other course, usually without a second thought about the flashing number.
The approach briefing is a rite of passage for IFR pilots. For decades, instructors have taught instrument students a mantra that typically begins: “This is the ILS Runway 36. The chart is dated September 5, 2024….”
In Pilot Short Story: Emergency in IMC, Thomas Turner, executive director of the American Bonanza Society Air Safety Foundation, shares lessons learned dealing with partial engine power on an instrument approach in IMC during a training flight. He reviews what it means to be PIC and how to work with ATC for the flight’s best outcome.
You have carefully planned an IFR flight from Hillsboro, Oregon (HIO), near Portland, and before you get to the airport, a message in your EFB confirms that the expected route to Boeing Field (BFI) in Seattle is what you filed: SCAPO V165 OLM, along a preferred low-altitude IFR route that you anticipate joining from the SCAPO SEVEN departure procedure that ATC often assigns to northbound traffic.
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