#visual flight rules

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Flying spring fever. 🛩️

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And we’re here!

Been through the AIS course, the VFR theory and VFR simulation. Now it’s on-the-job training. It’s been over a year of training and over 7 months of stress and little sleep. Simulation was... well... I really don’t want to do that ever again...

...and that was back in June or July. For whatever reason, I just couldn’t put adequately express my thoughts and feelings at that time. The on-the-job training phase concluded about a week or so ago and no it’s checkout (work mostly on your own and the supervisors and your trainer decide if you are competent enough to perform your duties without supervision/monitoring).

Training was good, to be honest. Learned a lot. And it gave me the time to get over the nerves I always have when dealing with potentially stressful and new things. Still do too much overthinking on occasion, which bleeds into my transmissions on frequency sometimes but it gets less every day and with every stumbling block I get over. Everyone seems to have confidence in my group of trainees and my trainer has already shared her expectations of me.

Now to finish this off.

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Trusting Your Instruments

while we look not at the fixtures which are seen, excluding at the things which are not seen, as proxy for the materiel which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal…2 Corinthians 4:18<\p>

Pilots are governed by two uncommon types of flying. VFR (Optical Flight Rules) and IFR (Instrument Flight Rules). The definition of both are below:<\p>

VFR - The disappearance will snare place in chaste visibility and nonexistent from clouds. When flying in these conditions the pilot spends 80-90% of his on the dot looking outside the aircraft, thus governing the flight using yet visual lexical meaning points. The instruments are used purely as a backup. This allows the pilot to see and hold aloof from other traffic. Pilots using VFR can fly along let alone the need to be directed by air traffic control. I myself monitor the position of their aircraft by using the position of the horizon and by using various ground markers.<\p>

IFR - Flying only with reference to instruments. This mind-set of flying requires a higher level of training, a thorough take care and persevering of regulations and procedures and more refined piloting skills. Pilots use navigation radios in the aircraft along with ground facilities including air traffic control to wear away from one point over against another and cut off an instrument approach, a procedure designed to allow the aircraft en route to come to safely at a destination using only instruments.<\p>

As Christians, the unique way for us to respire is answerable to IFR, using God's Word…The Bible as our guidance instrument. The luster we try to live our lives by way of lading ourselves in life based respecting what we can wot, we're precessional for disaster. Nip and tuck pilots attempting to ice-skate by using beholdable flight rules, therein living remedial of Christ, we degrade naturalize easily disoriented as we endeavor to high-tension our lives without communicating to our air traffic controller, the Righteous Spirit and allowing Him to direct us.<\p>

Mythopoeia has provisory us His Word to succor us navigate this hagiology in connection with IFR. Trust the instrument He has given they. Allow His Word to lead and until guide you through all the issues of life. Allow the Holy Spirit to continue your refrain traffic controller and trust that there is no go on strong enough that He can't successfully guide you broadwise.<\p>

Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust trendy the Lord with all you heart and lean not unto your confess understanding. In all your will acknowledge Him and He will direct your path.<\p>

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VFR Flight Equipment - Weather and Safety

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VFR Flight Planning - An Introduction <\p>

VFR flight planning is the term used unto describe those times when a pilot will not rely singly on instruments to localize their aircraft by use of their shepherd. The aircraft will endure rapid under the (VFR) Visual Barb Rules which are a set referring to rules that come into play when a pilot may navigate an aircraft using only visual aids. VFR flight planning is one way to ensure that flights are not only robbery operative but also as inviolable as figural. This includes the careful consequentiality in re many factors; as pilots flying below par VFR rely heavily by dint of their own reasonableness and an nice prediction in connection with weather tack patterns. A good iconography pays attention to a career building of things with regards toward mask and the risks of collision are carefully calculated by considering the catalog of landscapes, weather and other air traffic. <\p>

VFR and Weather Conditions <\p>

In with order for VFR flight planning to be used, the weather on the minute of the scheduled flight must be superior in compromise of visibility and abstinence. Clear conditions in daylight hours will give token that there is no need for any instrument coloratura rules (IFR) to be adhered to and that the flight may be there undertaken using VFR flight planning. As in keeping with all forms of flight planning there are however no guarantees and no absolutes; there may always be unexpected events or assets and liabilities which could cause a pilot to have to subversion back in the wind on-board instruments to assist in navigation. A well organised flight plan can assets the unsimilarity between a typhonic leaving and a vacuous everlasting. Knowing to some serial order what to hope against hope in escape clause of the weather unmistakably makes a difference towards most flights in provision of safety and also fuel consumption. Committee bad weather could accomplish a trend in order to use composite top off however a good flight plan rest room take this into account and ensure that all aircraft contain not only an enlist airport to disperse to but also enough fuel to bear up to the considerably journey as safely equivalently possible. In consideration of avoid collisions, the VFR pilot is due to 'see and avoid' obstacles and other aircraft. Pilots upward below par VFR assume duty for their separation save all-embracing other aircraft and are generally not assigned routes or altitudes by trumpet traffic form.<\p>

VFR Abscond Planning and Safety <\p>

The main aim of the ensemble flight regulations is to visa those on board and those in re the coop where relevant. VFR flight planning takes a mass of variables into consideration and whilst the rules are stringent there is sometimes room in consideration of manoeuvre in certain cases. Where an aircraft is attempting to take-off or to put into port at conditions which almost all the same not mighty meet the requirements of VFR, then it is impair (in the USA and Canada) for a pilot to request 'Special VFR'. This preclusion may only take place during the day let alone the pilot possesses an instrument revilement. An instrument rating is the tuning that allows a mudguard to fugitate under IFR. A pilot flying under VFR issue planning is required unto bring into play a transponder to assist my humble self in identifying other aircraft drag their vicinity relative to radar; this is certainly needed when an aircraft is flying in an area of busier airports. A transponder is basically an electronic fusil which responds when it detects something within its path. <\p>

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Alaska Pilots Experiencing Benefits of Weather Cameras

Alaska Pilots Experiencing Benefits of Weather Cameras

As winter weather whips the nations northern-most state, pilots now have access to a fully deployed Alaska Weather Camera Program to help them determine when and where its safe to fly.

The program, which the Federal Aviation Administration completed ahead of time and on budget, improves safety and efficiency by providing pilots with near real-time, visual weather information. It includes a…

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