IFR Magazine

You’re stuck on the ramp waiting to go, many planes ahead of you, arrivals holding and waiting on departures, departures waiting on arrivals. Whassupwidat?

Artificial intelligence is the current darling of high-tech and we’re seeing its influence everywhere. Does artificial intelligence have a place in an airplane?

Those out-of-the-way airports tend to be basic—one or two simple approaches. But simple doesn’t always mean easy. There can be a lot of decisions to make.

Performance Based Navigation (PBN) capitalizes on the aircraft’s navigation capability from its avionics suite to enable better navigation performance. This quiz delves into the RNAV specification that IFR pilots should know.

I was a new controller and just assigned to my first duty station, Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona. I had a pretty good working relationship with my crew mate. It was slow and we had the radios on the speaker so we could use handsets instead of wearing headsets. Out of nowhere we got a […]

Spoofing Confusion I enjoyed your “GPS Jamming, Spoofing” article in June 2024. Would you please expand on your comment that “GPS satellite spoofing attacks are often detected by a jump in the time reported from the GPS.”?  Where would I check to see if there was a “jump in the GPS time”? Does that mean […]

Swift Gets 100R STC Swift Fuels’ 100R unleaded aviation fuel has received an STC for use in Cessna 172 R and S fuel injected models. The STC is a significant milestone for the fuel and making it the second high octane unleaded to get FAA approval behind GAMI’s G100UL. The two aircraft models, the most […]

These are incredibly useful tools that enhance our flying, making it safer while giving us more capabilities.

I was flying IFR north of Toronto a year or so ago on a VFR day and talking on Center frequency when I heard this exchange. Toronto road traffic is known to be bad, particularly during the afternoon rush hour, which this was. ATC: “Air Canada xyz, expect Runway 23.” Air Canada xyz: “Roger, Runway […]

Defining good weather, enough for a visual approach, can be tricky. Use that instrument procedure as a backup, but be sure to adjust for those ever-changing conditions.