Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Why don’t they use Indicated Airspeed just like the pilots who fly slower aircraft? Key Takeaways Mach number is a dimensionless ratio of true airspeed to local speed of sound. That’s the speed your airspeed indicator shows based on ram air pressure in the pitot tube. Here’s why. Safety is also a factor.

True Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

True Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

True Airspeed

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

But my goal was to fly the airliners that, as a child, I watched climbing out from La Guardia Airport over our Bronx apartment. A student’s properly demonstrated recovery showed that he understood that the rudder was the last control surface to lose effectiveness and the first to return, followed by the ailerons and elevator in that order.

Cockpit