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Most airports big enough to have multiple freqs will have approach control arrival service. ATC is required to give you the frequency unless they have reason to believe you are familiar with it already. If they don’t then ask. tex

You are never required to actually go to your filed alternate in the case that you can not land at the destination airport. You only must file for the alternate if require due to forecasted weather +/- 1 hour of eta...but you are not required to actually go there. You could go to a completely...

If requested tower or approach will call any dme fix you need on the final. tex

Rule 1. Landings runways. Rule 2. Departure runways only if different from landing runways. Exception 1. Landing runway may be omitted if it is runway to which an advertised instrument (not VA) approach is being made Rule 3. This is one f the most abused rules in the 7110.65. Most...

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To address a couple of points... Lara 4-5-2 tells controllers to assign altitudes based on the hemispheric rule which we do. Controllers can assign any altitude above MVA or MIA within his airspace and even into adjacent airspace even at wrong altitudes with coordination. Dtuuri said he has a...

I’m still hoping for an explanation of why there is a need for those high altitude rules for uncontrolled airspace. Where is it possible to be in uncontrolled airspace that the FAA has jurisdiction over and where 91.179 applies at, say, FL300? Now or anytime in the past. Give me an example...

That’s what I said. “B” doesn’t dictate it but many have been under that belief. Which is reinforced by ATC’s choice of altitudes. And yes, they therefore continue to file for those altitudes based on their experience that those are the altitudes they will be assigned which is true. In other...

Yeah, based on my research I have thought for awhile now that this rule is essential useless I. Present day practice. Yould be surprised how many pilots I speak to at meetings believe that 91.179b dictates their altitude choice. They are shocked and dont understand why they always file based...

I am a 36 year veteran air traffic controller as well as CFII, MEI. Any controlled airspace IFR altitude you fly is what ATC assigns you. In fact paragraph A of .179 say as much. There is no requirement to choose or file for any specific altitude based on direction. ATC has a 7110.65...

Your right my mistake...91.179. But the FAA doesn’t dictate policy over non-territorial high seas...ICAO does, I believe. Can you give an example of previous rules in the past when uncontrolled airspace existed high enough to require uncontrolled airspace hemispheric rules. I’m trying to...

91.177 gives appropriate altitudes to be used at all altitudes in uncontrolled airspace. The question is simple...why are there uncontrolled airspace altitude requirements for high altitudes where there is no uncontrolled airspace? tex

Then, please, can I have an answer to the previous question... In this case is runway heading at 285 to 3000 guaranteed obstacle clearance or not? If the dp was not there...same question? Tex

Are you sure? The 285 per nm was determined after a diverse departure assessment testing whether there were any intrusions by any obstacles into the 40:1 clearance plane was accomplished and, having found so, raised the path to 285 precisely to provide the required obstacle clearance per...

In other words fly 078 to 2600 thence... and do so at a rate of 285 per nm until at 3000 feet, at which time I could, if I wanted, ease off the 285 and climb at, say, 200? If that is true are you saying that I can’t depart runway heading at 285 all the way to 3000 and be ensured of obstacle...

Ok thank you. The takeoff minimum requires that you climb to 3000 before turning but the departure procedure says 2600. Why the difference? Tex

Ok. So there are the following parts to takeoff minimums.... Visibility...either 1 or 1/2 standard Climb gradient...200fpm standard DER height....35 ft standard Turn altitude...400 ft standard Ceiling....no ceiling is standard Any of these might be given as a non-standard revision to the...

I have several questions relating to a research project for a class I'm teaching in college. They are all directly or indirectly related to IFR departures. I will probably asks these if two or three different posts. My goal is to clarify as precisely as possible the distinction between...

A controller must issue the altimeter unless the pilot says he has the ATIS, the numbers or o few other items required by rule. I’m all of those cases the pilot ends up with the altimeter. In those cases the controller knows any alt info from the pilot is based on that altimeter. Until then...

I must not be making myself clear. I’m sorry. If a pilot just out of the blue tells you he is at 2500 feet, like a pilot just comes on your frequency and says hey approach this is so and so out here flying around and I’m at 2500 feet. What does the controller know? Nothing. That altitude...