Pilot Proficiency

Controllers can provide assistance with adverse conditions when workload allows.

AGI rating offers affordable, early teaching privileges and career benefits—even before you earn your flight instructor ticket.

It’s critical for pilots to know altitude restrictions to avoid a bad situation on approach.

Knowing what to look for in regard to flight training is critically important.

Sometimes the big light goes around because conditions are below VFR minimums.

Many approach control facilities have airport surveillance radar physically
located on the field.

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.