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Fly safe — and fly friendly!

by Ben Winton | Mar 14, 2012 | Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Arrival & Departure Procedures LOA, Safety

A reminder from our friends at IWA (Phoenix-Mesa Gateway) that noise-sensitive areas exist all around the airport. In particular, heightened sensitivity has focused on the area east of the corridor for traffic heading to the Southeast Practice areas. Also, be aware of...

Southeast Practice Area Being Redefined

by Ben Winton | Feb 11, 2012 | Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Arrival & Departure Procedures LOA, Practice Areas, Safety, Training

The Arizona Flight Training Workgroup needs comments from flight instructors and others who fly and train regularly in the southeastern Phoenix metropolitan area. The AFTW is redrawing its popular chart depicting practice areas over the PHX area, and your comments...

Training flights and commercial jets at odds for airspace east of IWA

by Ben Winton | Jan 20, 2012 | Discussion Topics, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Arrival & Departure Procedures LOA, Practice Areas, Safety

The ad-hoc Phoenix Airspace Users Working Group recently issued some stunning graphics  showing just how congested the airspace in and around IWA in the southeastern Phoenix metropolitan area is becoming. “Pilots operating in the airspace near IWA should be...

FAA places new emphasis on ATC communications; Gateway issues new radio procedures

by Ben Winton | Jun 15, 2011 | ATC Communications, Safety

In an effort to improve safety and reduce the risk of runway incursions, air traffic controllers at Phoenix Gateway airport (IWA) will be expecting more precise radio communications from pilots. Effective immediately, all aircraft who are No. 1 for departure will be...

PHX Practice Area Reporting Points

by AFTW Website | Apr 17, 2011 | Discussion Topics, Practice Areas, Safety

Search engines haven’t updated their pages yet… please visit the new reporting points...

Do you really know when to stop moving on an airport?

by Ben Winton | Dec 30, 2010 | ATC Communications, Safety, Training

The  Aviator Alert Bulletin from the Phoenix Deer Valley Air Traffic Control Tower offers some excellent tips and information  on taxi-clearance requirements, holding short of a runway, and use of that pesky phrase “Roger” and what it really means. DVT...
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