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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.

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.

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.

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.