Airlines Altimeter VOR 
Plane and Pilot
JULY 31, 2025
Aviation then was a realm of VOR needles, paper charts, and the pure joy of stick-and-rudder flight. Cockpit Revolution: Steam Gauges to Glass Thirty-three years ago, my Skipper’s panel was a cluster of analog “steam gauges”—altimeter, airspeed, and attitude indicators, their needles prone to subtle quivers.
Plane and Pilot
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Some things are mandated for any airplane, like an airspeed indicator, altimeter and compass. That GPS display wasnt in the panel when the aircraft was certified, but you may not be comfortable making a trip with only a VOR receiver and a sectional chart if it goes blank. The first rule of Can I fly without it?
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Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
Just north of Jefferson City, the Kansas City Center controller cleared us to the Jeff City VOR, which was on the airport, to hold at 4,000 feet. I got out my instrument approach chart and studied the holding pattern and the VOR approach procedure. How can this be? Then my worst fears became reality.
WayMan
JUNE 16, 2025
Altimeter: Shows the altitude of the aircraft above a designated reference point, essential for flight level assignment and terrain clearance. Attitude Indicator (Artificial Horizon): Shows the orientation (pitch and bank) of the aircraft relative to the horizon of the Earth, essential for instrument meteorological conditions flight.
Air Facts
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
They arent just a list of priorities in an emergency, they also neatly sum up the different roles a pilot must play, roles that used to be divided very specifically on the flight deck of an airliner. I concentrated as never before, and the airplane tracked true as the altimeter hand crawled upward. Then a strange thing happened.
Pilot Institute
MAY 26, 2025
airline accidents between 2009 and 2018. Did you catch any sudden shifts in your airspeed indicator and altimeter? You: We experienced severe clear air turbulence at flight level 400, approximately 35 miles northeast of DBL VOR. And that’s to say nothing of the impact on the aircraft itself. Prepare for a bumpy ride.
Northstar VFR
AUGUST 25, 2024
Every airline/operator must establish a Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP). V: VOR INSPECTION (FAR 91.171) For any flight operated under instrument flight rules (IFR) using a VOR navigation system, the VOR must be routinely checked/maintained, and an operational check performed within the previous 30 days.
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