Pilot Proficiency

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.

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.