VFR Sectional Explained! (All About Airports) Private Pilot Ground Lesson 25

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Learn to Decipher the VFR Sectional!
You need to know how to read aeronautical charts in order to get your private Pilot certificate. This free private Pilot ground lesson will help you learn the meanings of all the symbols on VFR sectionals and will give you a place to look for information if you can’t decipher some of the symbols. Specifically, this lesson discusses the airport symbols on the VFR sectional charts and all the information you might need to know about the airports from the sectional. This is all information that you will need to know to become a pilot. This information will help you study for the Private Pilot written exam and the oral exam for your check ride. This training is intended to follow the aeronautical knowledge areas in Part 61.105 section b for single engine aircraft.
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@jebr055 2 года назад

Here is your answer to the 8069 foot question. When printing the runways in the circles, not only are they aligned to depict the actual runway heading, they also represent the length of the runway. A very short runway will easily fit inside the circle whereas an 8000 foot runway extends almost to the edge of the circle. An 8100 foot runway would extend past the edge of the circle, which would make it just look like two half circles. They round the lengths to even 100 foot lengths for the purpose of printing these. But they don't round up at 50, they round up at 70. So, an 8069 foot runway would get rounded to 8000 feet and fit in the circle. an 8070 foot runway would get rounded to 8100 feet and wouldn't fit. I know this is a long answer, but it's the simplest way I could think to explain it. hopefully it makes sense.

@FreePilotTraining 2 года назад

Wow 🤯 how did you learn that? I’ve always wanted to know the answer to that

@nathanielmccarty3607 Год назад

That’s correct it has to do with the pixels available within the circles when they’re printed. 8,070 the pixels are just one too many to fit within the circles on the sectional.

@alukuhito 11 месяцев назад

Cool. I wonder why someone chose to round at 7 rather than 5 though.

@dwebb1518 11 месяцев назад

@@FreePilotTraining From the FAA Aeronautical Information Services FAQs: For purposes of airport depiction, specialists represent a runway between 7970 and 8069 feet in length as 8000 feet, which equates to a line 0.192 inches in length on the Sectional chart scale. In this case, a circular aerodrome symbol is used. If a runway is between 8070 and 8169 feet in length, specialists round to 8100 feet, which equates to a line 0.1944 inches in length on the sectional chart scale. This line is too long to fit into the largest circular aerodrome symbol FAA has available. Therefore, specialists place a line-work around the runway pattern forming a polygon (enclosed shape) for anything over 8069 feet in length. Specialists also place these polygons around the runway pattern of aerodromes with multiple runways that are less than 8069 feet, in cases where the multiple runway pattern does not fit into the largest, circular aerodrome symbol.

@jasonkimball7617 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! Great, simple explanation with all relevant details!

@Jomama_01 Месяц назад

I'm going through flight school pretty soon and i figured i'd check out a guide to VFR charts because they always looked scary. This definitely calmed me down a bit because it's not hard to read the map anymore. Still need to re watch and study them so I don't mess up. But damn I'd be lying if I said i wasnt scared about flight school. It's definitely the biggest thing i've ever done in my life and i want to give everything i have to succeed. Because I want to have a good future and secure a life for myself and future family. Sorry about the rant, im just terribly nervous and I needed somewhere to spew my feelings or it'd get in the way of my studies.

@FreePilotTraining 29 дней назад

You’re not alone. You’ll do fine. It will be tough at first, but don’t give up. You will wake up at some point and everything will just click

@Tybell350 Год назад

I love your lessons, I start commercial flight school in 1 month and I love soaking in all of this information in hopes of making school a little bit easier. Thank you!

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

Thank you! Happy to have you here on the channel!

@Gman-sb3zf 2 года назад

I learned so much from your channel, it exceeds any of the knowledge I got from ground school and or my instructors. Keep it coming.

@FreePilotTraining 2 года назад

I love hearing that! Thank you so much! I’m hoping to finish up another one in a few days!

@DMacDaddy 3 месяца назад

Pretty scary actually … 😂

@livestock9722 2 месяца назад

@@DMacDaddy For that reason, I'm actually considering becoming an instructor. Most young instructors are only there to put in hours and make a bit of money, and then leave halfway through someones training when they get a job offer.

@kaushikccu Год назад

Another great lesson. Easy to absorb and remember. With my FAA knowledge test looming in a couple of weeks, this is just the reference I needed. Thanks so much!

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

Thanks! I’m sure you’ll do great!

@Teneshiab 4 месяца назад

Explained clear as day. Thank you!

@FreePilotTraining 4 месяца назад

No problem!

@hasantolgaucar8445 3 месяца назад

I really appreciate your wonderful content, sir. Thank you

@FreePilotTraining 3 месяца назад

You’re welcome!

@coreyjordan2745 4 месяца назад

Thank you, excellence. I learned a lot.

@FreePilotTraining 4 месяца назад

You’re welcome!

@allsizons3609 2 года назад

You are a star!

@FreePilotTraining 2 года назад

Thank you!

@MyUganda256 8 месяцев назад

Beautiful

@FreePilotTraining 8 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@RuvimAbaras 7 месяцев назад

Thank you

@FreePilotTraining 7 месяцев назад

You’re welcome

@paulcrooks3742 2 года назад

Thanks. Taking my test next week

@FreePilotTraining 2 года назад

You’re welcome! Good luck!

@21trips 2 года назад

Mile and a half plus 150 ft

@jasonpeters9295 2 года назад

Thanks for making me exercise my brain by doing some simple arithmetic and a little memory recall.

@seniorgolfer 2 года назад

Taken from the FAA Aeronautical Chart User's Guide: Runway length is the length of the longest active runway, including displaced thresholds and excluding overruns. Runway length is shown to the nearest 100', using 70 as the rounding point; a runway 8070' in length is charted as 81, while a runway 8069' in length is charted as 80.

@FreePilotTraining 2 года назад

Thanks! I can’t believe I didn’t see that! Great comment!

@johnchan6191 8 месяцев назад

Wow, that vdo was so educational. The best compare 2 other vdo's. Thx 4 sharing on Utube.

@FreePilotTraining 8 месяцев назад

Thanks John! That means a lot!

@zoozolplexOne Год назад

cool !!!

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

Thanks!

@elijahryder313 Год назад

I think the random number has something to do with the scale length of the runway, above that number it becomes a drawn strip instead of one in a circle😊

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

Thanks! That’s super interesting

@Madeofbutter 6 месяцев назад

How do you know what type of airspace is?

@grantbunker1755 3 года назад

Great video thank you, can't wait for more. The 8,069 foot runway is strange. I'm very curious as to why. Hopefully someone answers

@FreePilotTraining 3 года назад

Your welcome! I’m cranking them out as fast as I can. I try to improve the quality in every video too so it takes a while. Lol. Yeah, I thought about googling it, but I’m sure someone here knows the answer

@messianichebrewshawnkawcak1550 2 года назад

One guy said it’s about how they round up runway length to nearest 100. My guess as to why 8000’ length cutoff would be related to class of aircraft that can land there. Stopping distance and takeoff roll distance necessary for certain aircraft (Cessna, twin props, small jets, regional airlines, etc). I doubt commercial airline jets can use

@c.allanreitan6529 Год назад

8069 feet is 1.52 SM, so it is just slightly longer than 1.5 miles. It is also approximately 1NM + 2,000', which would make it 1 1/3 NM distance. On the Sectional charts, one minute of Longitude is approximately 1NM over the ground, so the 8069 length would correspond to a runway that spans at a minimum two ticks on the Longitude scale.

@chrisr6385 5 месяцев назад

The reason the upper limit is 8,069': The circumference of the airport circles on the charts are all the same size regardless of the length of the runway. 8,069' is the maximum runway length that fits within this circle in a chart (the runways on the chart are scaled to the circumference of these circles). Anything beyond this 8,069' would cause the scale of the runway to not fit within the circle. If the runway is over 8,069' it no longer is drawn within this circle. So it has to do with maximum pixels and scale that can fit within a specific circle 🔴 size on charts without going over.

@marktruesdale2613 Год назад

How can I buy the checkmate laminated checklist you recommended.

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

You can find some of them on Amazon, but you can also buy them directly from checkmate here www.checkmateaviation.com/aircraft-specific-cards.html

@2oopb 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the informative lesson, just curious.. how would you advise someone who is ab-initio to remember all these stuffs? Practice?

@FreePilotTraining 7 месяцев назад

You’re welcome! I don’t know what that is, but yeah, it just takes practice

@2oopb 7 месяцев назад

@@FreePilotTraining ah as in someone who has zero experience or starting from scratch.. because the chart looks like it is cobbled together with many various infos and patterns!

@peterpickguitar 5 месяцев назад

@@2oopbOne thing at a time. Understand the color airport symbol then reflect on that. Look on the charts for those symbols. Then move on.

@vad8339 Год назад

Just a heads up, the FAA sectional guide you linked shows page not found

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

Thanks for the heads up! Looks like they updated it. Here’s the new one! aeronav.faa.gov/user_guide/20220714/cug-complete.pdf

@ronldp7185 Год назад

@@FreePilotTraining FWIW, that link is showing Error 404 - file not found. It's like they don't want us to find it!

@omarfaris8273 Год назад

I watched this video twice and I just realised that you were explaing my home airport SFB, and I live 8 minutes away from it.😂

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

Small world!

@veronicajohnsen5999 5 месяцев назад

I learned it’s the longest they could depict because it’s to scale with the map.

@TheAvGeek-kl3zf 3 года назад

💖

@rong4248 2 года назад

It's because of the resolution of the printed charts I believe. 0.192" is as large as they can get to fit into the circle on the chart.

@GreenGuyDIY 8 месяцев назад

By the way, the star before L means pilot controlled lighting. Not just that there is something unusual. Of course you may need to check the supplement to know the frequency because it is not always the same as CTAF. The supplement will also inform the control features such as how many levels, mic click count, etc.

@FreePilotTraining 8 месяцев назад

It doesn’t necessarily mean there will be pilot controlled lighting. I’ve seen fields that have the *L, but no Pilot controlled lighting. The legend says that it means “lighting limitations exist; refer to Supplement.”

@albertpollard9295 Год назад

"Runway length is shown to the nearest 100’, using 70 as the rounding point; a runway 8070’ in length is charted as 81, while a runway 8069’ in length is charted as 80."

@garynnikki 3 месяца назад

Here is the answer to your question: Runways up to 8,069 feet long are enclosed in the familiar circular airport symbol. But, according to the FAA’s Aeronautical Information Services, if a runway is longer than 8,069 feet the representative line is too long to fit into the largest circular airport symbol available.

@FreePilotTraining 3 месяца назад

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

@jasonpeters9295 2 года назад

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@FreePilotTraining 2 года назад

Sweet! 🙌🏻 see you in the next one!

@taylorfire10 11 месяцев назад

Did my checkride today, and this is what failed me. Wish i came across this video prior.

@FreePilotTraining 11 месяцев назад

Sorry to hear that

@blutowitz Месяц назад

Your lessons are good but drawing white arrows on the chart to identify things you're talking about is very distracting. VFR charts are busy enough without added distractions.

@FreePilotTraining Месяц назад

Thanks for the feedback. My newer videos don’t use the hand. I hope to replace these older ones at some point

@blue6980 11 месяцев назад

8069 ft = 2500 meters thats why I think

@FreePilotTraining 11 месяцев назад

Ah, I never considered that

@misfittoytower Год назад

Your videos are very helpful, well-thought out and clearly presented. That being said, that 'artist's hand' is really distracting and annoying. Nonetheless, thank you for the videos.

@FreePilotTraining Год назад

I appreciate the feedback. I have been trying to be a lot more conservative with the hand in my newer videos. You aren’t the only one to mention this