PI.VIII.A.R6
Risk managementDeteriorating weather conditions on approach.
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- Chapter 7: Helicopter Instrument Procedures › Inadvertent IMC
traffic facilities, weather (including seasonal affects such as icing and thunderstorms), and available airfield/heliport approaches. Training should emphasize the identification of circumstances conducive to inadvertent IMC and a strategy to abandon continued VFR flight in deteriorating conditions. This strategy should…
- Chapter 12: Weather Theory › Air Masses › Flight Toward an Approaching Cold Front
understanding of the type of conditions that can be encountered in flight. Figure 12-26 depicts a flight from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, toward St. Louis, Missouri. At the time of departure from Pittsburgh, the weather is VFR with three miles visibility ... haze with a falling barometric pressure. Approaching Indianapolis, the weather has deteriorated to overcast clouds at 1,000 feet and three miles visibility with thunderstorms and heavy rain showers. At St. Louis, the weather gets better with scattered clouds…
- Chapter 2: The Air Traffic Control System › Control Sequence
that direction if the situation deteriorates. A typical IFR flight, with departure and arrival at airports with control towers, would use the ATC facilities and services in the following sequence: 1. FSS: Obtain a weather briefing ... departure, destination and alternate airports, and en route conditions, and then file a flight plan by calling 1-800-WX-BRIEF. 2. ATIS: Preflight complete, listen for present conditions and the approach in use. 3. Clearance Delivery: Prior to taxiing…
- Pilot/Controller Glossary › B
runway braking action reports which include the terms “medium,” “poor,” or “nil,” or whenever weather conditions are conducive to deteriorating or rapidly changing runway braking conditions, the tower will include on the ATIS broadcast the statement, “Braking Action Advisories ... departing aircraft. Pilots should be prepared for deteriorating braking conditions and should request current runway condition information if not issued by controllers. Pilots should also be prepared to provide a descriptive runway condition report to controllers after landing. BREAKOUT…
- Chapter 13: Effective Aeronautical Decision-Making › Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) Awareness
planning room than in the air. In case conditions deteriorate once in flight. Have contingency options available. While many CFIT accidents and incidents occur during nonprecision approaches and landings, great measures have been taken to improve instrument training, equipment ... infant patient from one hospital to another. No record was found indicating the pilot obtained a weather briefing before departure. The pilot had a choice of taking either a direct route that crossed a remote area of rugged mountainous terrain…