VFR sectional charts are essential navigation tools for visual flight, providing critical information on airports, landmarks, terrain, navigational aids, and, most importantly, airspace boundaries.
When you fly the VFR approach, you fly right over the centre of the town, over a beautiful medieval walled village and then turn south and fly down to the actual runway with a view of the sea ahead.
Experienced IFR pilots often struggle with basic visual traffic patterns, a skill mastered as students, due to over-reliance on instruments, autopilots, and ATC guidance in high-performance aircraft.
While Standard Instrument Approach Procedures (SIAPs) are commonly known, **visual approaches** are the most frequent way IFR flights conclude, requiring the pilot to have the airport or preceding ...
A visual approach is conducted to an airport reporting VMC (at or above 1000 ft ceiling and 3 miles visibility), requiring the pilot to remain clear of clouds. A contact approach is a visually-flown ...
In 2019, more than 4.5 million people traveled by air every day worldwide and many of them arrived late because of weather. Up to 70% of air traffic delays are caused by instrument meteorological ...