Charts & Plates

Approaches like the KOWD LOC RWY 35 were once common, but they’re almost retro today. Nonetheless, they still exist and we should know how to fly them.

A popular winter ski destination with summer activities to please nearly any outdoor enthusiast, Telluride is a popular destination, but the airport can be “interesting.”

Long a favorite of instructors and examiners alike, it’s time we dug into this unusual and seemingly one-off approach, at least to broaden your understanding.

Perhaps you call them “Frankenstein” approaches since these require both RNAV (GPS) and conventional navigation, grabbing pieces from each.

When’s the last time you reviewed your lost-com procedures? It can still happen…

Perhaps just a normal regional airport, Westfield-Barnes in Massachusetts, gives us more than its share of things to consider.

Learn some tips and tricks from a veteran aviation forecaster about what to look for on even those basic weather charts.

Enduring a black-screen episode in flight, for those in the know, isn’t as bad as it sounds. While the thought of losing a moving color map is often the modern pilot’s horror-movie nightmare, most cockpits now have enough backup equipment so you can fly the airplane, navigate and (barring a full electrical failure) communicate. Do […]

At first look, the title VOR or GPS RWY 13L/R approach [A] presumes a straight-in approach to two runways or that the final approach course alignment is 30 degrees or less to the runways. But look again. There is approximately a 90-degree difference between the final approach course and the runway headings; it is neither […]

When conditions are down to 200-½, the search for approaches and alternates with better weather can take some time. Options are few on a day like this, even if you’re comfortable flying down to mins. And even when finally selecting the airport and backup, you’ve gotta check the NOTAMs for the airports, airspace and procedures—and […]