IFR Magazine

Since most flights end in VMC, it’s common to cancel the flight plan as soon as you’ve got eyes on the airport. Good idea? Only sometimes—it can be a tough call.

After you fly enough approaches, they all start looking pretty similar. Is that your brain working for or against you? Or both?

Ever heard “Caution wake turbulence. Following a heavy,” and wonder if the controller is giving you enough space? How much space do you really need?

Modern electronics almost relegate lost-comm concerns to a thing of the past. But what should you do if “almost” comes to your flight?

Block 10 For a Flying Club Thank you for unraveling the mystery of flight plan block 10: “Equipment” in the May 2024 article, “Flight Plan Codes.” I belong to a large flying club that does not track the type of ADS-B equipment in each airplane. For those that are Performance Based Navigation equipped, does it […]

AI Employed To Prevent Incursions Universal Avionics has developed a ground environment sensor system that provides enhanced guidance for pilots at airports and can warn them if they are headed for an incursion, even if they’re following ATC instructions. The system uses artificial intelligence to meld voice recognition of individual ATC controllers with instantaneous transcription […]

Many times in these pages we’ve discussed the disconnect of safe versus legal. As our regs guru, Mark Kolber, in this issue covers lost-comm procedures and their examples of what’s legal versus what makes sense, I again mused on this. While the regulations usually mandate safe actions, there are exceptions where safe isn’t legal and […]

Obviously, there is no replacement for an airplane to stay current and proficient. But when you sim, don’t treat the sim like an airplane. There’s a difference.

Performance-based navigation focuses on an aircraft’s performance capabilities instead of its navigation sensors. PBN includes two essential applications, RNAV and RNP.

Knowing Good and Evil was a problem in the original Paradise, but around the PDZ VOR, managing direction, altitude, and what’s next is your only hope of success.