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• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 8-1
  Chapter 8: Airport Traffic Patterns › Standard Airport Traffic Patterns

  control tower, aircraft typically fly at airspeeds no greater than 200 knots (230 miles per hour (mph)). Sensible practice suggests flying at or below these speeds when operating in the traffic pattern of an airport without an operating control tower ... adjust the airspeed, when necessary, so that it is compatible with the airspeed of other aircraft in the traffic pattern. Figure 8-1. Traffic Patterns When entering the traffic pattern at an airport without an operating control tower, inbound pilots…

• Instrument Flying Handbookp. 10-20
  Chapter 10: IFR Flight › Approach to an Airport With an Operating Tower, With an Approach Control › Circling Approaches

  criteria and therefore higher than the precision minimums to the primary runway, but are normally lower than the published circling minimums. Circling Approaches Landing minimums listed on the approach chart under “CIRCLING” apply when it is necessary to circle ... maneuver for landing, or when no straight-in minimums are specified on the approach chart. [Figure 10-11] The circling minimums published on the instrument approach chart provide a minimum of 300 feet of obstacle clearance in the circling area…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. PCG C-3
  Pilot/Controller Glossary › C

  Light Chop– Turbulence that causes slight, rapid and somewhat rhythmic bumpiness without appreciable changes in altitude or attitude. b. Moderate Chop– Turbulence similar to Light Chop but of greater intensity. It causes rapid bumps or jolts without appreciable changes ... aircraft altitude or attitude. (See TURBULENCE.) CIRCLE-TO-LAND MANEUVER- A maneuver initiated by the pilot to align the aircraft with a runway for landing when a straight-in landing from an instrument approach is not possible…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 5-4-55
  Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-19. Side-step Maneuver

  clearance area. TBL 5-4-1 RVR Value Conversions RVR Visibility (statute miles) 5000 1 6000 1 1/4 1. Circling approach protected areas are defined by the tangential connection of arcs drawn from each runway ... Circling approach protected areas developed prior to late 2012 used fixed radius distances, dependent on aircraft approach category, as shown in the table on page B2 of the U.S. TPP. The approaches using standard circling approach areas can be identified…

• Aeronautical Information Manualp. 5-4-19
  Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-5. Instrument Approach Procedure (IAP) Charts

  Obstruction Clearance Altitudes (MOCAs) or other minimum altitudes depicted on charts for a given location. While being radar vectored, IFR altitude assignments by ATC will be at or above MVA. 3. The MVA/MIA may be lower than the TAA minimum ... altitude. If ATC has assigned an altitude to an aircraft that is below the TAA minimum altitude, the aircraft will either be assigned an altitude to maintain until established on a segment of a published route or instrument approach procedure…

• Helicopter Flying Handbookp. 9-15
  Chapter 9: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Common Errors › S-Turns

  attention. 3. Uncoordinated flight control application. 4. Improper correction for wind drift. 5. Failure to maintain selected altitude and airspeed. 6. Selection of a ground reference with no suitable emergency landing area within gliding distance. 7. Not flying a course ... should be straight for a considerable distance and should extend as nearly perpendicular to the wind as possible. The object of S-turns is to fly a pattern of two half circles of equal size on opposite sides…