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  • Pilot/Controller Glossary › A

    gate will be established along the final approach course 1 mile from the final approach fix on the side away from the airport and will be no closer than 5 miles from the landing threshold. APPROACH/DEPARTURE HOLD AREA- The locations ... taxiways in the approach or departure areas of a runway designated to protect landing or departing aircraft. These locations are identified by signs and markings. APPROACH LIGHT SYSTEM- (See AIRPORT LIGHTING.) APPROACH RUNWAY VERIFICATION- A STARS functionality that provides audible…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 3. Airport Operations › 4-3-22. Practice Instrument Approaches

    accordance with instrument flight rules, they must specifically request and obtain, an IFR clearance. b. Before practicing an instrument approach, pilots should inform the approach control facility or the tower of the type of practice approach they desire to make ... they intend to terminate it, i.e., full-stop landing, touch-and-go, or missed or low approach maneuver. This information may be furnished progressively when conducting a series of approaches. Pilots on an IFR flight plan, who have made…

  • Pilot/Controller Glossary › F

    filing and handling techniques. a. Terminal Area Delay. A delay within a terminal area for touch-and-go, low approach, or other terminal area activity. b. Special Use Airspace Delay. A delay within a Military Operations Area, Restricted Area, Warning ... representative without any subsequent changes or clearances. FINAL- Commonly used to mean that an aircraft is on the final approach course or is aligned with a landing area. (See FINAL APPROACH COURSE.) (See FINAL APPROACH-IFR.) (See SEGMENTS…

  • Chapter 5. Air Traffic Procedures › Section 4. Arrival Procedures › 5-4-25. Contact Approach

    EXAMPLE-Cleared contact approach (and, if required) at or below (altitude) (routing) if not possible (alternative procedures) and advise. c. A contact approach is an approach procedure that may be used by a pilot (with prior authorization from ... airport not having a published and functioning IAP. Nor is it intended for an aircraft to conduct an instrument approach to one airport and then, when “in the clear,” discontinue that approach and proceed to another airport. In the execution…

  • Chapter 10. Helicopter Operations › Section 1. Helicopter IFR Operations › 10-1-3. Helicopter Approach Procedures to VFR Heliports

    specific landing area (Proceed Visually) or to a point-in-space with a “Proceed VFR” segment. 1. An approach to a specific landing area. This type of approach is aligned to a missed approach point from which a landing ... evaluated for obstacle hazards. These procedures are annotated: “PROCEED VISUALLY FROM (named MAP) OR CONDUCT THE SPECIFIED MISSED APPROACH.” (a) “Proceed Visually” requires the pilot to acquire and maintain visual contact with the landing area at or prior…

  • Chapter 6. Emergency Procedures › Section 4. Two-way Radio Communications Failure › 6-4-1. Two-way Radio Communications Failure

    conditions. If the failure occurs in VFR conditions, or if VFR conditions are encountered after the failure, each pilot must continue the flight under VFR and land as soon as practicable. NOTE-This procedure also applies when two-way radio ... failure occurs while operating in Class A airspace. The primary objective of this provision in 14 CFR section 91.185 is to preclude extended IFR operation by these aircraft within the ATC system. Pilots should recognize that operation under these conditions…