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KnowledgeAirport/heliport/helipad/landing area, signs, markings, and lighting.
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- Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-25. Flight Inspection/‘Flight Check’ Aircraft in Terminal Areas
Strobe lights should not be illuminated during taxi if they will adversely affect the vision of other pilots or ground personnel. f. At the discretion of the pilot-in-command, all exterior lights should be illuminated when taxiing ... across any runway. This increases the conspicuousness of the aircraft to controllers and other pilots approaching to land, taxiing, or crossing the runway. Pilots should comply with any equipment operating limitations and consider the effects of landing and strobe lights…
- Chapter 2. Aeronautical Lighting and Other Airport Visual Aids › Section 3. Airport Marking Aids and Signs › 2-3-11. Destination Signs
Outbound destination signs identify the general direction to departure runways. The sign legend consists of direction arrow(s) and the applicable runway designations. FIG 2-3-39 is an example of a typical outbound destination sign. e. When a sign ... arrow indicates the direction of the taxi path, as shown in FIG 2-3-39. f. When a sign shows the inscription for two or more destinations having different taxiing routes, each destination will have its own arrow to indicate…
- Chapter 10: Teaching Practical Risk Management during Flight Instruction › Notes on Instructional Risk Management in the Flight Deck › Managing Risk while Teaching Landings
control or aircraft in the pattern. To avoid this, the instructor should only use concise prompting on approach to landings with the learner. Certain landings present unique risks. The instructor teaches the appropriate pre-landing reconnaissance for unfamiliar landing areas ... uncontrolled fields. During landings in strong winds, the instructor should have the skill sufficient to deal with the wind conditions. During a short-field or confined area landing, certain aircraft may fly at a slower approach speed. The instructor should…
- Chapter 7. Safety of Flight › Section 5. Bird Hazards and Flight Over National Refuges, Parks, and Forests › 7-5-6. Flights Over Charted U.S. Wildlife Refuges, Parks, and Forest Service Areas
Fish and Wildlife Service, and Wilderness and Primitive areas administered by the U.S. Forest Service. NOTEFAA Advisory Circular AC 91-36, Visual Flight Rules (VFR) Flight Near Noise-Sensitive Areas, defines the surface of a national park area (including parks ... forests, primitive areas, wilderness areas, recreational areas, national seashores, national monuments, national lakeshores, and national wildlife refuge and range areas) as: the highest terrain within 2,000 feet laterally of the route of flight, or the upper-most…
- Chapter 9: Aircraft Electrical System › Exterior Lights › Landing & Taxi Lights
Each light may be controlled by a relay, or it may be connected directly into the electric circuit. On some aircraft, the landing light is mounted in the same area with a taxi light. [Figure 9-178] A sealed beam ... halogen, or high intensity xenon discharge lamp is used. Taxi lights are designed to provide illumination on the ground while taxiing or towing the aircraft to or from a runway, taxi strip, or in the hangar area. [Figure…
- 14 CFR § 61.109 Aeronautical experience.
Aeronautical experience. with an authorized instructor, including 30 takeoffs and landings, and 10 hours of solo flight training in the areas of operation listed in § 61.107 (b)(9) and the training must include at least— (1) One hour of cross ... country flight training in a powered parachute that includes a 1-hour cross-country flight with a landing at an airport at least 25 nautical miles from the airport of departure; (2) Except as provided in § 61.110, 3 hours…