You are a great teacher. That is the best I have ever heard class G airspace explained, as well as, it cleared up my questions about class E airspace. Great job. I wish you were my CFI. Thanks a lot.
I'm a rusty pilot getting back into the air after 20 years. When I stopped flying I don't recall class G at all. I have one of my old sectionals and it doesn't even refer to it anywhere. So, this was particularly helpful because the airport I'm flying out of has been giving me fits trying to figure out what airspace its in. I now know its class G up to 700' AGL and thereafter class E for the most part. Thank you.👍👍👍
I can’t tell you how helpful this has been. I’m taking my part 107 and was killing myself trying to find a way to have Class G and E airspace. Thank you
I paid for a private pilot FAA written prep course through King School and your explanation is much clearer. Thank you. Also, what software are you using?
Your explanations are best! Thank you so much for making us better pilot..i hope to fly with you oneday:) just abt to get my ppl this weekend. I live in palm beach and working at the Breakers Hotel on sundays for sunday brunch. Pls be my guest one day its the best brunch country!
@@fly8ma.comflighttraining199 i wasnt kidding, next time u come to palm beach, come have brunch with your family or girlfriend whoever:) give me a notice from here 2 days before. Thank you ill do my best for ppl.
Like many pilots staying engaged via the internet in remote locations I love your stuff and use it a LOT. I’m in class G airspace NOT doing silly things but just using the airspace available. Gotta thumbs down for us flyover sectional people. And I ACED my written.
Thank you so much. I’m getting into PPG, so it is interesting and wise to learn about air space. I’ve been told by the local Somerton Pilots that it’s private municipal airport maintains a 300’ G Space for a distance into the town I want to reach. I have my current Phoenix Regional Chart, I don’t see the 300’ limit. I see G space, but not 300’ limit. We have The Yuma/ MCAS ; Yuma Proving Grounds (all branches of military fly from there); and two areas that are used for bombing. I can legally go from Somerton Municipal Airport to several big spaces to land, but I don’t see that 300’ limit. What I’m I missing? Thanks. Very good vid. I subscribed and notifications on.
I find it funny that when you jump to "way out west" you zoom in on the Grand Canyon which has it's very own special restrictions if you're flying below 18,500 and it's own chart that you have to have on board to fly through the fly over corridors.
Glad it helps! Be sure to stay tuned for our new ground school going live soon at www.fly8ma.com and share us with your friends on Facebook and around the airport!
Areas of Class G airspace higher than the standard 1200 ft/ 700 ft above the surface actually have a very important implication for pilots: Those are areas where control for IFR flight (Class E airspace) is not available. As more radar and radio services have been added to the mountainous far west over time, the Glass G airspace areas have been reduced. VFR pilots should not expect flight following in Glass G airspace, and should be aware that there are a lot of places in the mountainous west where radio and/or radar reception is not possible below the mountain ridges, regardless of the airspace designation. Until very recently, this included most of the high ground from the Mogollon Rim eastward to 20 nmi east of Grants, NM at 9,500 ft and below, or from Reno to Tonopah, as another example, below 10,000 ft.
You said class G airspace exists up to 700 a few times but it only exists up to 699. Class echo begins at 700agl technically. There are also a few places off the coast near seattle where you will see a little triangle made out by the non fuzzy side of the blue vignette so that is technically where class golf exists and Echo starts at 14,500.
I am confused why is class E airspace denoted by a magenta circle if it is defined that it is the airspace that fills in all the space between the airspace between A, B, C and D? Another question is: @1:33 class E starts after 700 or 1200? Another thing that is confusing me is that I thought those uneven lines are for class G
Probably because the controller of the airspace doesn't actually control the airport. It would be a center, arrival, or departure controller and once you're 700 AGL you should have the airport in sight and be able to land uncontrolled
Class G at 14,500 is all over in Alaska, and since it is part of the US, and on a sectional, it is still very much applicable when it comes to having to know what it is. Good video but you should never dismiss something literally on the most current sectionals as something that doesn’t really exists or matter anymore. I am assuming you know the law of primacy, so maybe you should reword your statement or at the very least indicate that G to 14,500 does still exist, and reference Alaska to show people what it looks like on the sectional.
Way back when, before there were classes "A" through "G" airspace, we had to memorize the definitions of "control zones," "control areas," "transition areas," "traffic areas," etc. The contiguous United States, a/k/a the Lower 48, was covered by a thing called the "continental control area," which began at 14,500 MSL and went to the base of the "positive control area" at FL180, now known as "Class A Airspace." Back then, out in the middle nowhere, there was, indeed, "uncontrolled airspace" that went up to 14,500 MSL. You can't find that anywhere in the Lower 48 any more, but that's where that figure came from. According to the AIM, Class G airspace is simply that airspace that has not been otherwise designated as classes "A" through "E." So, to answer your question, flying at 2000 AGL, over 99+% of the Lower 48, you would not be in Class G airspace and would use the appropriate cloud clearance and visibility rules. The old terms sound cool and romantic and the new terms sound kind of sterile, but give me the new names any day.
Gord Rose, Technically you can. Even though CLASS E is considered controlled airspace, for VFR pilots, you don't need to talk to ATC. If you are entering the traffic pattern, although not required to, it is recommended to make position reports on the CTAF frequency when you are 10 miles out, 5 miles out, 45* downwind entry, downwind, base, and final. Hope this helps!
the next time you make a video about Class E and Class G air space. PLEASE make your pronunciation of the letters better. I have a very difficult time understanding whether you are saying class E air space or Class G air space.
I know this is a few years old... still good info / I wish you would not say "C" / "E" and "g" in your vids... instead... Charlie, Golf and Echo...I have a hard time differentiating.
Your videos are very informative, though on this particular video the focus was out on much of the time; seems to distract from the professional videos you produce.
Gotta love a video that wastes your time for 5:36 only to then say "this is all you need to know" and then give you the one single thing that you DO need to learn from the video. If that is all you need to know, then (duh) that's all you need to know and the rest of the video is worthless. Don't get me wrong, I watch a lot of your videos and enjoy them. But please don't be a college professor who drones on all day talking around the subject and then finally at the end tells you "all you need to know." Please keep your training cutting edge, crisp, and concise. Thanks very much from a loyal viewer.
The training is helpful. You should keep your comments to helpful suggestions if you think it is lacking. We all understand his comment about that is all you need to know is his way of closing out his info on the particular subject.
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Been a pilot for 34 plus years. Some of this still confuses me. This is VERY WELL DONE.
Thank You.
You are a great teacher. That is the best I have ever heard class G airspace explained, as well as, it cleared up my questions about class E airspace. Great job. I wish you were my CFI. Thanks a lot.
Glad to hear it helped ya out... Good luck with the rest of training!!
Finally - the only explanation we really need. You have to wonder how other folks make it so complicated
I'm a rusty pilot getting back into the air after 20 years. When I stopped flying I don't recall class G at all. I have one of my old sectionals and it doesn't even refer to it anywhere. So, this was particularly helpful because the airport I'm flying out of has been giving me fits trying to figure out what airspace its in. I now know its class G up to 700' AGL and thereafter class E for the most part. Thank you.👍👍👍
even though I am an international student, he still explains so well that I can understand everything. Thanks man
I hope your training has been going well! Best of luck.
@@VictoryAviation I passed commercial license!! Thanks dude :)
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Thank you! With a checkride coming up, this answered a couple key questions I had and helped put me at ease!
As a part 103 enthusiast, I really respect how you acknowledge the silly things we flying lawnchair yahoos do.
P.S. I speed. A lot.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP... 92% today!
I can’t tell you how helpful this has been. I’m taking my part 107 and was killing myself trying to find a way to have Class G and E airspace. Thank you
I paid for a private pilot FAA written prep course through King School and your explanation is much clearer. Thank you. Also, what software are you using?
This is probably the best video that I’ve seen about the class g airspace, all my confusions are now solved. THANKS !!!
New student pilot here; great explanation of G and E airspace. I have both videos bookmarked for future reference. Thanks!
Thanks for making it very easy!
Great review for my CFI Checkride. Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great help in explaining class E and Class G airspace.
Happy to help!!
New item on the list to do after I get my PPL: go out west, find a big class G, AND DO SILLY THINGS
This was very helpful for me my flight instructor was getting kinda irrated that I didnt understand G airspace
Look up whiskey creek airport(94e) about 70 miles north 353 degrees. Example of class g - 14500
Thank you so much! This really clears it up for me!!
thank you for showing my town
Your explanations are best! Thank you so much for making us better pilot..i hope to fly with you oneday:) just abt to get my ppl this weekend. I live in palm beach and working at the Breakers Hotel on sundays for sunday brunch. Pls be my guest one day its the best brunch country!
Sounds like it would be a great time lol good luck with your PPL!!
@@fly8ma.comflighttraining199 i wasnt kidding, next time u come to palm beach, come have brunch with your family or girlfriend whoever:) give me a notice from here 2 days before. Thank you ill do my best for ppl.
Thanks! You made it Simple n easy to remember
👍. Be sure to check out the online course!
Like many pilots staying engaged via the internet in remote locations I love your stuff and use it a LOT. I’m in class G airspace NOT doing silly things but just using the airspace available. Gotta thumbs down for us flyover sectional people. And I ACED my written.
Thank you for videos which are very helpful!
There are charted sections of Glass G airspace from surface to 14,500. Just not many anymore.
Several places still have g to 14,5. Not as much as before.
Good info! well explained
Thank you so much. I’m getting into PPG, so it is interesting and wise to learn about air space. I’ve been told by the local Somerton Pilots that it’s private municipal airport maintains a 300’ G Space for a distance into the town I want to reach. I have my current Phoenix Regional Chart, I don’t see the 300’ limit. I see G space, but not 300’ limit. We have The Yuma/ MCAS ; Yuma Proving Grounds (all branches of military fly from there); and two areas that are used for bombing. I can legally go from Somerton Municipal Airport to several big spaces to land, but I don’t see that 300’ limit. What I’m I missing? Thanks. Very good vid. I subscribed and notifications on.
Very good, Jon!
Thanks!!
I find it funny that when you jump to "way out west" you zoom in on the Grand Canyon which has it's very own special restrictions if you're flying below 18,500 and it's own chart that you have to have on board to fly through the fly over corridors.
Very helpful, thank you
Thanks, excellent vid!
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Thank You!
Happy to help!!
The one dislike failed their written
+JustaGthing LMAO
JustaGthing I can’t see anyone who failed written passing the oral test either.
So one answer is for the regulations test and the other is for flying?
great job!
Feel free to share it around!
Thank you!!!
Jon, great way of explaining that!
Glad it helps! Be sure to stay tuned for our new ground school going live soon at www.fly8ma.com and share us with your friends on Facebook and around the airport!
Areas of Class G airspace higher than the standard 1200 ft/ 700 ft above the surface actually have a very important implication for pilots: Those are areas where control for IFR flight (Class E airspace) is not available. As more radar and radio services have been added to the mountainous far west over time, the Glass G airspace areas have been reduced. VFR pilots should not expect flight following in Glass G airspace, and should be aware that there are a lot of places in the mountainous west where radio and/or radar reception is not possible below the mountain ridges, regardless of the airspace designation. Until very recently, this included most of the high ground from the Mogollon Rim eastward to 20 nmi east of Grants, NM at 9,500 ft and below, or from Reno to Tonopah, as another example, below 10,000 ft.
You said class G airspace exists up to 700 a few times but it only exists up to 699. Class echo begins at 700agl technically. There are also a few places off the coast near seattle where you will see a little triangle made out by the non fuzzy side of the blue vignette so that is technically where class golf exists and Echo starts at 14,500.
That’s how you get confused over 1 number. Don’t be a drama queen. Look at the bigger picture.
I am confused why is class E airspace denoted by a magenta circle if it is defined that it is the airspace that fills in all the space between the airspace between A, B, C and D?
Another question is: @1:33 class E starts after 700 or 1200? Another thing that is confusing me is that I thought those uneven lines are for class G
5:08 What does the big number 74 mean?
Much appreciated
MSFS2020!
so you can do like literally anything you want in that airspace? like for example, pulling the ailerons all the way back for fun
still restricted to FAA regulations
Is it class G over noncontrolled airfields?
Thanks. Very clear. btw...do you know where in the USA Class G goes up to 14,500' ? I tried to find it on the chart but no luck.
I think I found a Class G that extends up to 14,500 in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Anyone care to confirm that? Second set of eyes appreciated.
What if it has no ring and purple
where can i get a map like that?
Why is the G airspace at 700 at the magenta line over the airport. Does this make sense?
where can I gain access to the chart you used in this video?
"hop into that airspace and go do silly things!"
I'm quite confused why is class E airspace above the airport but doesn't include the airport??
Probably because the controller of the airspace doesn't actually control the airport. It would be a center, arrival, or departure controller and once you're 700 AGL you should have the airport in sight and be able to land uncontrolled
How do you tell the 700 feet making it Class E compared to the other class C airport? Which is highlighted the same?
Shaded magenta is class E starting at 700. Class C airport is solid magenta.
So my drone is pretty much good anywhere as long as I stay below 400 feet? Trying to follow this so I don't break laws.
Unless you're in overlying class C,D,B.
1:10 1200' MSL??? The sectional at 1:30 says AGL.
" unless otherwise designated.."
Class G at 14,500 is all over in Alaska, and since it is part of the US, and on a sectional, it is still very much applicable when it comes to having to know what it is. Good video but you should never dismiss something literally on the most current sectionals as something that doesn’t really exists or matter anymore. I am assuming you know the law of primacy, so maybe you should reword your statement or at the very least indicate that G to 14,500 does still exist, and reference Alaska to show people what it looks like on the sectional.
Where can i find the map you are using in these videos? thanks in advance
This was a year ago, so I assume you found it now. But for future readers, it's Skyvector.
but legally according to book G is to 14,500
so do you use E or G cloud/vis rules at say 2000 ft agl ?
Way back when, before there were classes "A" through "G" airspace, we had to memorize the definitions of "control zones," "control areas," "transition areas," "traffic areas," etc. The contiguous United States, a/k/a the Lower 48, was covered by a thing called the "continental control area," which began at 14,500 MSL and went to the base of the "positive control area" at FL180, now known as "Class A Airspace."
Back then, out in the middle nowhere, there was, indeed, "uncontrolled airspace" that went up to 14,500 MSL. You can't find that anywhere in the Lower 48 any more, but that's where that figure came from.
According to the AIM, Class G airspace is simply that airspace that has not been otherwise designated as classes "A" through "E."
So, to answer your question, flying at 2000 AGL, over 99+% of the Lower 48, you would not be in Class G airspace and would use the appropriate cloud clearance and visibility rules.
The old terms sound cool and romantic and the new terms sound kind of sterile, but give me the new names any day.
I watch a lot of paramotor/paragliding videos, and they often fly well over 10,000ft. is that legal?
Really? That high AGL?
So can we imagine the magenta vignette as a 500’ depression in Class G?
What is class f airspace
There is no such thing
dang... i could not tell your "g" from your 'E' when listening to you...echo and golf would have helped me understand this.
If I am flying over Venice airport at 2000 ft msl do I need to make radio contact?
Randall Robarts Thanks, that is what I thought, but I will always announce my position and intentions so others know what I am doing..
Gord Rose, Technically you can. Even though CLASS E is considered controlled airspace, for VFR pilots, you don't need to talk to ATC. If you are entering the traffic pattern, although not required to, it is recommended to make position reports on the CTAF frequency when you are 10 miles out, 5 miles out, 45* downwind entry, downwind, base, and final. Hope this helps!
the next time you make a video about Class E and Class G air space. PLEASE make your pronunciation of the letters better. I have a very difficult time understanding whether you are saying class E air space or Class G air space.
It always bothers me why know one explains why class G exists. Is it lack of radar coverage, instrument approaches, cloud clearances for VFR work.
I know this is a few years old... still good info / I wish you would not say "C" / "E" and "g" in your vids... instead... Charlie, Golf and Echo...I have a hard time differentiating.
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Too bad you don't use echo and golf. Be easier to follow.
I wish you would say GOLF instead of "G."
You need to explain better…. I don’t get it
Your videos are very informative, though on this particular video the focus was out on much of the time; seems to distract from the professional videos you produce.
Talk too darn fast
Gotta love a video that wastes your time for 5:36 only to then say "this is all you need to know" and then give you the one single thing that you DO need to learn from the video. If that is all you need to know, then (duh) that's all you need to know and the rest of the video is worthless. Don't get me wrong, I watch a lot of your videos and enjoy them. But please don't be a college professor who drones on all day talking around the subject and then finally at the end tells you "all you need to know." Please keep your training cutting edge, crisp, and concise. Thanks very much from a loyal viewer.
The training is helpful. You should keep your comments to helpful suggestions if you think it is lacking. We all understand his comment about that is all you need to know is his way of closing out his info on the particular subject.