Approaches

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

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.

Approach opens a gateway to explore the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

It’s a circling approach to a mountain getaway.

Landing an airplane with the gear not securely down and locked is a dreadful experience, but pilots and passengers are rarely injured.

The mountains of western Virginia necessitate an offset approach.

The ILS or LOC approach into Tri-Cities/Bristol in Tennessee offers several key areas of interest for instrument rated pilots to study for proficiency.

Nestled into the coastal Virginia airspace, this instrument approach holds a few tricks.

The agency’s legal interpretation letters provide some thought-provoking case studies.

The key aspect of any standard instrument departure is the word “standard.” SIDs were created to reduce the required radio traffic between air traffic controllers and pilots, as aircraft transition from the terminal to the en route airspace in busy environments such as the one surrounding Van Nuys, California. This past year, KVNY locally handled […]