Towered and nontowered airport operations.
This broadcast must be obtained before contacting tower at a towered airport.
What is ATIS?
This is the FAA-recommended entry method for joining a VFR traffic pattern.
What is the 45-degree entry to downwind?
Per § 91.113, this aircraft always has right-of-way over powered aircraft.
What is a glider?
This automated system provides wind, ceiling, altimeter, and density altitude information.
What is AWOS or ASOS?
What speed and altitude should be maintained in the downwind leg of a normal traffic pattern in the Cessna.
What is 90 Knots and 1000’ AGL?
At a towered airport, pattern entry is assigned by this entity.
Who is the control tower?
This indicator on the airport grounds shows whether the airport uses right or left traffic.
What is the segmented circle?
When two aircraft are approaching head-on, both should do this.
What is alter course to the right?
This towered-airport broadcast provides airport info including NOTAM-like items and runway closures.
What is ATIS?
Pilots commonly forget this step before their initial call to join the traffic pattern environment at a towered airport.
What is listening to ATIS?
At a non-towered airport, pilots announce their position and intentions on this frequency.
What is CTAF?
This pattern leg is selected when aligning the aircraft with the runway for landing.What is final?
What is final?
In the traffic pattern, this aircraft has right-of-way if two aircraft are on final approach.
What is the aircraft at the lower altitude?
When contacting ATC, pilots should report this single item from the ATIS broadcast.
What is the ATIS code?
This error occurs when pilots fail to maintain flying a proper pattern in the presence of wind.
What is improper wind correction or drifting off pattern?
These two factors primarily determine which runway is used at a non-towered airport.
What are wind direction and traffic flow?
These two weather factors primarily influence which runway and direction the pattern is flown.
What are wind direction and wind speed?
An aircraft overtaking another must alter course in this direction.
What is to the right?
If the wind Section of an AWOS/ASOS is missing is there anything we can use to find wind direction and speed at that airport?
What is the windsock?
This serious mistake involves not maintaining situational awareness throughout all pattern legs.
What is failure to maintain adequate visual scanning and collision avoidance?
Under § 91.126 and § 91.127, these are the standard pattern turns at non-towered airports unless otherwise published.
What are left-hand turns?
This document shows non-standard pattern altitudes or unique entry procedures for an airport.
What is the Chart Supplement?
Right-of-way rules allow deviation from normal traffic pattern only under this condition.
What is to avoid an immediate collision hazard?
This Remark in a METAR tells the pilot if it has precipitation discrimination.
What is “AO1 / AO2”?
This spacing error can result in overtaking other aircraft in the pattern.
What is flying downwind too close to the runway?