you're watching the free pilot training channel and this is private pilot ground lesson 22 and on today's episode we're going to be discussing all the other airspace you need to know as a private pilot but don't skip this lesson because this information is really popular with dpes when they're giving their oral exam questions a lot of times if you know this information they'll leave you alone on some of the other airspace questions speaking of that i created a separate playlist specifically for all the airspace study material i'll throw that here in case you want to start at the beginning and work your way to this lesson when we talk about other airspace there's a lot of different airspace that falls into this category but for today i want to focus on what you need to know as a private pilot don't be intimidated by all this stuff it's really not that complicated and i'm going to tell you exactly what you need to know the first example of this airspace is the local airport advisory this is an area where you can get weather advisory service from a flight service station on certain airports in alaska because these areas are only found in alaska i'm not going to go into any more detail but if you need more information check out the aim now let's talk about military training routes this is some airspace you definitely want to be aware of and that's because military aircraft can be maneuvering at high speeds along these routes in fact they're allowed to fly over 250 knots when they're using these routes to find these first look for these gray lines now notice that these roots are labeled with a vr or ir followed by three or four digit number vr stands for visual route that means these routes could be occupied when there's vfr weather then if you see these ir routes those are instrument routes and those can be operated in any weather when you see these routes with a four digit number that means they're operated at 1500 feet agl and below but if you see these roots labeled with three numbers like this one that means they can be operated above or below 1500 feet agl if you need to find out if these military training routes are active the best way to do this is to contact the nearest flight service station in this case it's jonesboro radio and we can either call them on the phone or we can use this frequency right here while we're in flight and just ignore this higher frequency right here that's a military uhf frequency and here's a little g whiz information there's actually one more sr routes or slow routes are uncharted military training routes and that's because they're typically operated below 250 knots next we're going to talk about temporary flight restrictions or tfrs these areas are exactly what they sound like when these are active pilots are not allowed to fly into these temporarily here's a few examples of the many reasons why you might see a tfr these can exist to protect people or property in the air or on the ground protect the president vice president or other public figures and in some cases these may prevent an unsafe congestion of sightseeing aircraft above an incident or event that may generate a high degree of public interest for example you might find one of these over the stadium of your favorite football team and i guarantee you you're not the only one who'd like to see him score that winning touchdown from the air okay so now how do i know when these are active and where to find them first you can check the faa's website specifically made for tfrs then you can either search for the center airspace you're going to be flying through or you can click here on the tfr map then you can zoom in on any applicable tfrs and take a look down at the nodes you can also get these if you use flight planning aids like 1-800 weather brief for flight and other flight planning software sometimes you'll find that tfrs reoccur regularly you can find these by these magenta diamonds on the vfr sectional then to find out if these are active you can check the nodums or the same places we just talked about now let's take a quick look at parachute jump areas while it's pretty obvious what these areas are for what may not be obvious is how to find these areas and whether or not they're active that's really important information to know because you don't want to fly through one of these areas when these people are jumping the first place we can find this information is in the chart supplement there's actually a section specifically for parachute jumping areas the first thing you'll notice here is that they separate these by states then they give you an approximate location a maximum drop altitude and just some remarks on when they're going to be operating when these areas are used fairly regularly you'll sometimes see these on the vfr sectional the parachute jump areas can still exist when they're not noted in the chart supplement or on the vfr sectional and the best place to look for these is in the nodums now let's take a look at published vfr routes here are a few examples of these but basically these routes are designed so that vfr traffic can transition easily through complex airspace vfr flyways are nothing more than recommended flight paths so that vfr pilots can avoid major controlled traffic flows you'll find these depicted as the big blue markings on the back of the class bravo airspace terminal area charts now while you don't need a specific clearance to fly on these routes it is your responsibility to make sure you follow all the other rules before going into any other types of airspace some class bravo airspace have something called vfr corridors these are essentially vfr tunnels that extend to the class bravo airspace these dash magenta lines are an example of a vfr corridor going through san diego's airspace and you just want to make sure you read all these rules before you use one of these as you can see you don't need a clearance to go into this particular corridor but it'd be really easy to bust the class bravo airspace which could get you violated then we have class bravo airspace vfr transition routes these are denoted by these double-headed magenta arrows basically this is the preferred routing atc wants you to take if you're going to be transitioning the class bravo airspace the big thing for you to remember is that you're actually going into the class bravo airspace to travel on these routes so remember you must be cleared to enter and now for one of the most common questions on the oral exam wet airspace is denoted by this gray ring surrounding this airport if you said terminal radar service area or tursa you're absolutely correct most terses surround medium-sized towered airfields with class delta airspace and while you're not required to call approach and get radar services it can be very beneficial because this airspace can sometimes get kind of busy and now we have national security areas you can identify these by these heavy dash magenta lines as you can tell from this note pilots are requested to avoid flight into these areas so i guess you could say these are kind of voluntary usually now these could be activated by nodum and then they could become a prohibited area so i guess the moral of the story is check the notems if you think you might want to fly through one of these next let's take a quick look at the air defense identification zone this is airspace that the federal government has decided that in the interest of national security they need to readily identify locate and control all aircraft coming in and out of this space you can find this airspace in a few different areas including 12 nautical miles off the coast of the united states and on the border of mexico if you're thinking you want to take a vacation down into mexico make sure you have a mozi transponder a working two-way radio and you'll have to file a flight plan in addition to that there are a couple more things you have to do in order to cross into the aidets so make sure you check out the aim if you want to do that next we have the flight restricted zone now i'm not going to get into a ton of detail on this one because if you want to fly within 60 nautical miles of washington airport you have to do a special awareness training anyways if you need to take that training you can find it on the faa safety website now once we get within 30 nautical miles we have this cascaded ring inside of here we have what's called the special flight rules area this airspace starts at the surface and goes up to but does not include 1 8 000 msl now if you think you want to go in here in addition to that training i just mentioned there's a couple things you'll need first you have to establish two-way radio communications now if you're going into the class bravo airspace you'll have to get that clearance separately then you'll need a mode c transponder with an assigned squawk code last but not least you have to be on a special flight rules area or an ifr flight plan as we get closer to the center of the special flight rules area you'll notice another area with a 15 nautical mile radius this is called the flight restricted zone or frz for short if for some crazy reason you want to go inside the frz there's a couple special tsa requirements you have to meet first you have to get a personal identification number or pin then you also have to have a background check when it comes to the aidets the special flight rules area and the frz these are all locations where you don't want to fly into those without following the rules if you do you run the risk of being intercepted by military aircraft in worst case scenario they could potentially shoot you down because of this you really want to know your stuff before going into one of these areas now if you ever see these areas with a blue border with the dots inside these can be a couple different things when they're on land these can either be wildlife areas wilderness areas or national parks and guess what it says right beside them what they are this one happens to be a wilderness area for these areas pilots are requested to operate above 2000 feet agl now while it seems like these are voluntary i recommend abiding by these altitudes if you hit a bald eagle while buzzing the treetops in one of these areas that one's going to be kind of hard to explain that being said if you ever run into these noaa marine areas you're required to operate above 2000 feet agl and these are marked the same exact way the last type of other airspace we'll talk about today are areas where there are tethered balloons check out this restricted area right here as you can see from this note we've got an unmarked balloon on a cable that extends up to 1 5000 msl now we could flip our sectional over to the back to get some more information but this tells me everything i need to know right there if your plane hits that cable it could potentially rip it right in half and most pilots have a little bit of 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