Airport & Base Ops
Pre-Solo3 maneuvers · 83 words
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- Radio communications & ATC light signals
▸Traffic patterns
How this maneuver goes - Airplane Flying Handbook- Determine the runway, pattern direction/altitude; monitor CTAF; report ~10 miles out.
- Enter downwind on a 45° angle at pattern altitude, aimed abeam the runway midpoint.
- Fly downwind parallel to the runway ~½–1 mile out; complete before-landing checks and extend gear.
- Abeam the approach end, reduce power and begin the descent; ~45° past the runway end, turn base.
- On base, descend on a track perpendicular to the centerline, correcting for drift; check final before turning.
- Turn final and fly a stabilized descent to the touchdown point.
- Go around any time the approach is unsafe or the runway isn't clearly yours.
- Airport markings, signs & lighting
Words for this area
- heliports
- seaplane bases
- airport operations
- Downwind Leg
- nongovernment air/ground radio communication station
- Multicom
- nontowered
- intrastate
- Reliever Airports
- Enplanements
- aeronautical chart legend
- Notices to Airmen
- midfield crosswind
- Chart Supplement U.S
- high-performance retractable
- Traffic Pattern
- Upwind Leg
- aeronautical chart bulletins
- VOR receiver checkpoints
- LAHSO — Land and Hold Short Operations
- Relocated Runway Threshold
- Displaced Threshold
- centerline
- ATIS code
- en route
- Runway Holding Position Sign
- collocated
- taxiways
- magnetic azimuth
- runway designation marking
- runway distance remaining signs
- runway holding position marking
- Destination Signs
- ILS critical area
- runway incursions
- VOR receiver checkpoint markings
- Approach Light System
- airport beacon
- Airport Lighting
- three-bar VASI
- PAPI — Precision Approach Path Indicator
- two-bar VASI
- Visual Approach Slope Indicator
- sequenced flashing lights
- nonprecision instrument runway
- noise abatement procedures
- Runway Lighting
- Visual Glideslope Indicators
- runway edge lights
- REIL — Runway End Identifier Lights
- pulsating VASIs
- In-Runway Lighting
- New Lighting Technologies
- Omnidirectional
- taxiway lights
- RWSL — Runway Status Lights
- obstruction lights
- stop bar lights
- conspicuity
- runway guard lights
- Segmented Circle
- Tetrahedron
- wind direction indicators
- Crosswind Leg
- no transgression zone
- Automated Terminal Information Service
- Terminal Area
- Training Operations
- ATIS/landing information
- Rejected/Aborted Takeoff procedures
- EMASMAX
- AeroNav — National Aeronautical Navigation Services
- NACO — National Aeronautical Charting Office
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