Pilot Proficiency

With the recent government staffing cuts, there has been a need to indefinitely suspend them at three upper-air stations.

Aviation community uses the terms interchangeably, but the FAA says they are different.

Availability of alternate weather sources for pilots cited for the action.

In noncontrolled airspace where a radio is not required, pilots don’t need one at all.

Meteorologists use them instead of constant altitude charts for several reasons.

A good estimation of the cloud tops is like the finest gold, especially for pilots flying under IFR during the winter months.

Every flight ends with a landing, and it is a skill-tensive, task-saturated aspect of it.

Controlling trigear airplanes on the ground is much easier than for taildraggers.

They are technically the same thing, but the latter is no longer approved phrasing.

Some who worked to reach 1,500 hours total time are finding it difficult to be hired by carriers.