What VFR pilots need to know about night takeoffs
That due to trees in the immediate vicinity of the runway, a takeoff performance calculation over a 50-foot obstacle should be made for our return flight.Night takeoffs and landings from Runway 36 at Cherry Ridge are prohibited.There are trees or other obstacles in close proximity to both runways at Cherry Ridge, indicating caution is needed especially on Runway 36.The runways for landing at Cherry Ridge are much shorter than what appears on the airport diagram due to displaced thresholds, and that a landing performance calculation should be made.Our first proposed flight to Sidney, New York, could not be flown as our research found that the airport was closed.Keep in mind the date of our proposed flight is July 9, 2019.Īs a result of proactive flight planning, we have discovered the following information in preparation for our flight. In the search bar, type in N23, and pull up the airport data. The first step is to log onto ForeFlight and open the Airports tab. However, we have never been to Sidney, New York, so some research is in order. The result of our investigation is that everything looks good for our departure from 22N. This includes checking NOTAMs, the current weather, forecast weather, winds aloft, whether a TFR exists, and for AIRMETs or SIGMETs. But even so, some research before departure is still in order. Since Jake Arner Memorial Airport is our home base, we are already familiar with operations there. It will be a day VFR flight in a typical single-engine airplane. It is July 9, 2019, and we are preparing to fly from the Jake Arner Memorial Airport (22N) in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, to the Sidney Municipal Airport (N23) in Sidney, New York. So, instrument pilots take note! Also, all flight planning in this tutorial will be done using the ForeFlight app. While this tutorial is about preflight planning a VFR flight, everything presented here also applies to an IFR flight. So, let’s get started on proactively planning for a typical VFR cross-country flight. Preparing for a flight is not an option, it is a regulation.įAR 91.103 states, “Each pilot in command shall, before beginning a flight, become familiar with all available information concerning that flight.” Adhering to the tenets of good flight planning will result in a flight that goes smoothly with few, if any, glitches.
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Flying proactively is researching every aspect of your flight so that, with your hands full flying the airplane, you never have to look for information that could have been gathered before departure. Being surprised by something that could have been known prior to takeoff is an example of flying reactively. Photo by Jack Fleetwood Good flight planning begins with a mindset, and that mindset is to always fly proactively, and never reactively.
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