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IFR student here, It took me some studying to know that using VOR stations as waypoints is not only not required in IFR, but also you don't necessarily need to be on a victor airway at any phase of the flight (I hope I got this right). It makes sense with the availability of GPS waypoints and...

I remember the navigator in Strategic Air Command telling Jimmy Stewart "we've bumped into a 150 knot headwind"

Makes perfect sense, thanks for the article link.

Low time PPL, there is once aspect of wind effect i am still not able to fully understand. This question can also serve as a refresher to other private pilots. The scenario is as follows: I am taking off in a relatively windy/gust day say 13knots/G20 knots, after rolling out and during the climb...

Sounds like a nice experience to look at in the future.

It makes sense, I know all of this except the sticking point is/or was for me that since I am on their radar screen with a squawk code that i would receive instructions for avoiding collision, not just to advise me of where traffic is, it makes sense that they won't always provide with with...

Yea, when i am told turn heading xxx to avoid parachute activity, or traffic 10 o'clock 2 miles westbound, i take this as an effort to separate me from other traffic. Correct me if I am wrong though, i'm a newer and less experienced PP than you are, and we're here to learn.

I can't, unless you can tell me whats the difference between radar service and traffic separation?

That is a frightening thought while flying in IMC.

Yes, obviously separation is not provided for VFR (unless on flight following), but the traffic flow in the pattern, actually in the entire class D airspace is controlled by the tower, I guess that is some kind of separation, maybe not in the sense providing vectors, but still.

I remember one day me and the instructor were maybe more than 10 miles out and the tower asked us to do a 360 to avoid other traffic, I was thinking how is that possible with just binoculars, but, I haven't looked through one or been in a control tower before, I don't know.

I've been trying to understand how this works, I know that some class D airports have radar, others don't, for those who don't have it, the only thing I can think of is looking through binoculars but that sounds like a long shot. In some D airports I land at (VFR) which I am fairly sure don't...

wow, thanks, it's actually written as DRSET , which is probably why i could have never found it with my search.

IFR student here, sometimes I listen on liveATC to comms traffic on various airports to check how well i can understand it. One call which I have heard multiple times was on Dallas Lovefield tower freq. telling departing aircraft: "RNAV Dorset Clear for take off " , to which pilots respond...

I do that mentally too every time I am in turbulence, just think that this is it, time has come.