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  • Chapter 1. Air Navigation › Section 1. Navigation Aids › 1-1-8. NAVAID Service Volumes

    Designator Altitude and Range Boundaries T (Terminal) From 1,000 feet ATH up to and including 12,000 feet ATH at radial distances out to 25 NM. L (Low Altitude) From 1,000 feet ATH up to and including ... feet ATH at radial distances out to 40 NM. H (High Altitude) From 1,000 feet ATH up to and including 14,500 feet ATH at radial distances out to 40 NM. From 14,500 ATH up to and including…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 1. Services Available to Pilots › 4-1-18. Terminal Radar Services for VFR Aircraft

    ensure that correlated radar targets do not touch). 7. Participating pilots operating VFR in a TRSA: (a) Must maintain an altitude when assigned by ATC unless the altitude assignment is to maintain at or below a specified altitude ... assign altitudes for separation that do not conform to 14 CFR section 91.159. When the altitude assignment is no longer needed for separation or when leaving the TRSA, the instruction will be broadcast, “RESUME APPROPRIATE VFR ALTITUDES.” Pilots must then…

  • Chapter 1. Air Navigation › Section 1. Navigation Aids › 1-1-9. Instrument Landing System (ILS)

    authorized ILS minimums, with all required ground and airborne systems components operative, are: (a) Category I. Decision Height (DH) 200 feet and Runway Visual Range (RVR) 2,400 feet (with touchdown zone and centerline lighting, RVR 1,800 feet ... with Autopilot or FD or HUD, RVR 1,800 feet); (b) Special Authorization Category I. DH 150 feet and Runway Visual Range (RVR) 1,400 feet, HUD to DH; (c) Category II. DH 100 feet and RVR 1,200 feet…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 1. Services Available to Pilots › 4-1-20. Transponder and ADS-B Out Operation

    This system converts aircraft altitude in 100-foot increments to coded digital information that is transmitted to the appropriate surveillance facility as well as to ADS-B In and TCAS systems. 2. Adjust the transponder/ADS-B to reply on the Mode ... code specified by ATC and with altitude reporting enabled, unless otherwise directed by ATC or unless the altitude reporting equipment has not been tested and calibrated as required by 14 CFR section 91.217. If deactivation is required by ATC, turn…

  • Chapter 6. Emergency Procedures › Section 3. Distress and Urgency Procedures › 6-3-3. Ditching Procedures

    Swell Height. The height between crest and trough, measured in feet. The vast majority of ocean swells are lower than 12 to 15 feet, and swells over 25 feet are not common at any spot on the oceans. Successive swells ... differ considerably in height. c. In order to select a good heading when ditching an aircraft, a basic evaluation of the sea is required. Selection of a good ditching heading may well minimize damage and could save your life…

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

    MOCA along the airway is 2,700 feet and MEA is 4,000 feet. The aircraft is within 22 NM of the VOR. The pilot should remain at 2,700 feet until crossing the VOR because that altitude ... minimum IFR altitude for the route segment being flown. 3. The MEA between a and b: 5,000 feet. The MEA between b and c: 5,000 feet. The MEA between c and d: 11,000 feet. The MEA between…