General Information
Flight Guide's General Information section provides
helpful supplementary information on a variety of topics:
- Airspace-Definitions and descriptions of the six
classes of airspace, special-use airspace, and other airspace entities,
including military training routes and VFR corridors and flyways.
- Using Approach Control-Contact and flight procedures
for entering and transiting Class B or Class C airspace and the TRSA,
including sample radio transmissions.
- Airport Operations-Collision avoidance, control-tower
communications, traffic patterns, procedures at uncontrolled airports,
use of AWOS, and ASOS weather-information systems, and noise-abatement
considerations and procedures.
- Airport Marking and Lighting-Runway and taxiway markings
and lights, airport signs, pilot-controlled lighting, light signals,
and more.
All together, the above elements constitute compressed version of the
Aeronautical Information Manual the essentials edited for your convenience
and packaged with your portable airport directory.
General Information also includes the key to decoding METAR and TAF reports
and forecasts, a summary of NOTAMs (types and dissemination), a listing
of toll-free numbers for hotels and car-rental companies nationwide, FSS
and NWS telephone numbers, and ARTC Center radio frequencies.
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