Flight plans come in two flavors: VFR and IFR. GPS units carry one of two designations: VFR or IFR. Weather is either VFR or IFR. While VFR and IFR appear to be black and white concepts, there is one ...

It was November in Seattle. The ceiling had been going up and down all morning. A pilot was heard on the unicom asking for a runway advisory-he was still 6 miles out. Although he was instrument rated, ...

While it is unlikely youll ever have to use your hard-earned partial panel flying skills in a real emergency, critical systems do and will fail at the worst possible times. The good news is there are ...

Instrument approach design is a backward-engineered process from the runway, creating a safe, obstacle-free path for aircraft to descend from en-route altitudes to landing. Approaches are divided into ...

Visual approaches, despite being on an IFR plan, transfer navigation, separation, and wake turbulence responsibility to the pilot, necessitating high situational awareness to avoid traps like landing ...

If you have ever felt a touch of information overload while briefing and flying terminal instrument procedures, stand by. ForeFlight is about to introduce a tool designed to streamline the process by ...

A major shift in light aircraft avionics could soon eliminate one of the biggest compromises in modern panel design. Dynon is developing fully integrated IFR navigation that lives inside the SkyView ...

In Part 1, we discussed how there’s a significant difference between flying a circling approach in training and flying one in the real world. In the U.S., approaches are created using criteria ...

Experience an instrument approach into New Orleans aboard a 1968 Piper Cherokee 180 on a cloudy afternoon. #FlyWithKay #Aviation #InstrumentFlying ...

Aero-Terms are designed to be a daily reminder of the terms, names, acronyms and explanations of the unique language that populates the aviation world. Aerospace, sport aviation, fixed wing, helo, you ...

To illustrate the many aspects of defining and implementing general flight and operating rules, consider the specifications for a Category II or III instrument approach to land as reflected in the ...

The two privately funded precision instrument approach procedures at Monmouth Executive Airport have lower minimums than the non-precision approaches that were originally approved for the airport.