Air Space Requirements

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Rodney Fielitz I'm a certified flight instructor in Cottonwood, AZ and I'm here to give you the basics of what it takes to become a pilot. The next thing that we have to do is once we start getting into flying a pattern the next thing we want to start working on is cross country. The next thing on cross country is we're also going to start flying into airports that are controlled, it means they have a controlled tower. There are requirements in instrument equipment, it is mandatory to be able to fly into certain air spaces we have different classes, they use to call it different names but now they're class A, B and C, D, E and G. A is probably the most restricted you have to have an instrument rating to be able to fly in and out of there, you have to have two way radio communication. Class B is the busiest airspace that's where your major airports are you're not restricted to fly in there as a pilot but a student pilot, yes you are. Class C is where you have IFR clearances in different things like that, instrument flight rule is another game that's after you get private license and you go on and get more proficient, you become an instrument rated pilot. But these different airspaces all have different rules they have weather minimums to be able to fly in control airspace, you have to at least three miles of divisible clear clouds and their are some horizontal and vertical distances from the clouds. But all this is to help save you from getting into trouble. So as a student pilot we want to be restrictive of where you're flying, we don't want you flying in with a big airplane, but we're not restricting you from being able to do that. So as a student and a instructor you go to these airports and you learn the procedures this is another phase we do prior to the cross country phase of your flying."