Have you ever felt uncomfortable to fly to unfamiliar crowded airports? Below are some tips for preparing for your next trip to the B, C or D Airport.
What is very different?
Increased ATC requirements, complex taxi methods, and procedural differences can make these airports intimidate. But based on where you fly, you may only be your best or choice.
Get an early follow -up trip
When you have picked up Flight Flight, ATC helps you out while avoiding traffic and weather and avoiding airspace. ATC can help find ways to keep you from thick traffic. They can also warn you of traffic that is approaching your journey. Mobility is still up to you, and you do not have to accept ATC’s advice as long as it remains in Class e or Girpace. But after their advice, it can be a great balance.
The best way to work with ATC in the airspace is to be a proactive, and this includes flying to the B and C and and D airports. When your destination tells them in the initial call, ATC will coordinate your arrival.
As you approach your destination airport, ATC may hand you over to local control at this airport. If you are flying to Class c The airport while you are in a dual -direction radio contact with ATC (said Callsign), you have been hidden in the Class C. Class when you fly VR to Class B, you need to hear the phrase “wiped in the ATC’s airspace in the ATC airspace.
Learn about the weather requirements
Class B AirPace contains some of the most relaxed weather requirements, because, in the B category, air traffic controllers follow every step – height, speed and element. It is the only type of airspace as this happens to all VFR aircraft, and because of this, flying units can allow you to worse weather and still allow you to “see” and avoid other aircraft.
The requirements are very simple: 3sm clarity, clouds -free. What does survival mean “clouds”? This means that your plane can work, but do not touch a cloud. This is very close.
There is a minimum of Class C. Class requirements so that you can see and avoid other aircraft. ATC wants you to stay enough from the clouds so that you can see and avoid other aircraft, especially the aircraft that fly on fast methods.
An easy way to remember the minimum VFR weather for the CE Class Class is the phrase “3 CESSNA 152S”. Night or day, every number in the phrase symbolizes one of the distances:
- 3sm vision
- 1000 ‘above
- 500 ‘below
- 2000 ‘horizontal
What are your equipment requirements?
In both the B and C Category, you will need a file Radio in two directions, Mode-C or Mode-S, and ADS-B Out On board your plane to enter the airspace, so that you can keep communicating with ATC and so they can track your site and height in the radar scale.
Make your frequencies ready
The presence of overlapping frequencies, control of approach, tower, and the Earth’s frequencies loaded in Comm in preparation, is always a good idea. Keep in mind that in many large airports, there are multiple frequencies for each service, depending on the direction of your arrival, or your location on the ground.
If you use EFB, which we highly recommend, download your destination airport page. All frequencies will be inserted and available there to return quickly.
You may have to keep it, and you may be directed
Air to the Class C Airport is usually a problem. However, you may be asked to stick outside the airspace in some category B airports during a crowded access/departure block.
If you really need to (or want) fly to the BA airport, the connection may be a good idea. Calling control of the local ATC approach to ask about when it might be the right time to fly, which will usually occur between departure blocks and expatriates, or at night. Some airports such as the Salt Lake City and Vinix have a lot of GA traffic, with one runway located near FBos. Others, such as Chicago Ohair or New York La Gardadia, will not be able to have a boxer in the flow of traffic in light of normal operations.
Study the airport and search for your parking place
Before your trip, or at least before you start landing, take a comprehensive look at the airport scheme. Look for FBO where you plan to stand, and look at nearby taxi runways/corridors. Although you can never plan completely how to go to your approach/taxi, it is good to get to know the airport early.
You run, but do not accelerate
Airports are usually established as the B or C Category due to increased traffic. This means crowded frequencies and a lot of aircraft that are faster than you. Frying to these airports is not the time to continue, take pictures, etc.
Keep your speed as possible safely, and expect flying either a long or short approach to landing. This is one of the ways that ATC will receive you among the fastest aircraft. Do not hurry yourself, keep a sterile cabinet cockpit, and keep your eyes outside. If you need help, ask. The last thing you want to do is to assume that you understand ATC instructions and create a traffic conflict.
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