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  • 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…

  • Chapter 11: Aircraft Performance › Takeoff and Landing Performance › Landing Performance

    pilot must descend (dive) to get to runway 27. After becoming aligned with the runway and at 50 feet AGL, the pilot is already 1,000 feet down the 3,500 feet runway. The airspeed is still high by about ... landing distance. In performance planning, the pilot determined that at 70 knots the distance would be 1,600 feet. However, now it is increased by 20 percent and the required distance is now 1,920 feet. The newly revised landing…

  • Chapter 4. Air Traffic Control › Section 4. ATC Clearances and Aircraft Separation › 4-4-10. Adherence to Clearance

    which pilot execution is optional will so state “AT PILOT’S DISCRETION.” EXAMPLE-1. “United Four Seventeen, descend and maintain six thousand.” NOTE-1. The pilot is expected to commence descent upon receipt of the clearance and to descend ... suggested rates until reaching the assigned altitude of 6,000 feet. EXAMPLE-2. “United Four Seventeen, descend at pilot’s discretion, maintain six thousand.” NOTE-2. The pilot is authorized to conduct descent within the context of the term…

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

    with two-way radio communications failure (14 CFR section 91.185, IFR Operations: Two-way Radio Communications Failure), must maintain the highest altitude prescribed by section 91.185(c)(2) until arriving at the appropriate IAF. (b) Once cleared for the approach ... pilots may descend in the TAA sector to the minimum altitude depicted within the defined area/subdivision, unless instructed otherwise by air traffic control. Pilots should plan their descent within the TAA to permit a normal descent from the IF/IAF…

  • Chapter 4: Approaches › Course Reversal

    specified by procedural track. These turns must be flown exactly as depicted. These Figure 4-23. Orlando Executive Airport, Orlando, Florida, ILS RWY 7. Figure 4-24 Missed approach procedures for Dallas-Fort Worth International (DFW)4 This NOTE ... ft/NM. Figure 4-25. Missed approach point depiction and steeper than standard climb gradient requirements. requirements are necessary to stay within the protected airspace and maintain adequate obstacle clearance. [Figure 4-32] A minimum of 1,000 feet of obstacle…

  • 14 CFR § 135.89 Pilot requirements: Use of oxygen.

    aircraft. Each pilot of an unpressurized aircraft shall use oxygen continuously when flying— (1) At altitudes above 10,000 feet through 12,000 feet MSL for that part of the flight at those altitudes that is of more than ... minutes duration; and (2) Above 12,000 feet MSL. (b) Pressurized aircraft. (1) Whenever a pressurized aircraft is operated with the cabin pressure altitude more than 10,000 feet MSL, each pilot shall comply with paragraph (a) of this section…