Pilot's Life Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

True Airspeed vs Indicated Airspeed VS Equivalent Airspeed Since airspeed indicators use air pressure to measure speed, the indicated airspeed can be less than the actual airspeed at higher altitudes. True airspeed (TAS) is the difference between the indicated airspeed and actual speed.

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 18, 2024

The level of control goes from zero in some areas to considerable control around congested, big city, airports that serve considerable airline traffic. indicated airspeed, the speed limit for operations below 10,000′ MSL. indicated airspeed. The US Airspace System is divided into these categories.

AGL

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Honeywell SI-800 Airspeed/Mach Indicator has been a standard instrument on the Boeing 737, 747, 757, and 767 for decades. Boeing stopped installing the stand-alone indicator in favor of modern, reliable flat panel displays. Digital Data Airspeed The Indicated Airspeed (above 30 knots) is displayed in a digital format.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key Takeaways Airports that fall under Class C designation handle general aviation and airline traffic. Class C airports’ speed limits require aircraft within 4 Nautical Miles (NM) of the primary airport and below 2500 feet to maintain an Indicated Airspeed (IAS) of 200 knots or less.

Clearance

Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Few airlines are willing to pay the cost of training pilots to use synthetic vision systems (SVS) effectively, so airliners are rarely equipped with them. SmartView also provides the standard compass, attitude indicator, airspeed, and altitude scales. On the ground, the graphics are equally detailed.

Flight Deck

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. The margin beyond VNE in indicated airspeed and the onset of flutter may be less than many pilots would guess.

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. The margin beyond VNE in indicated airspeed and the onset of flutter may be less than many pilots would guess.

True Airspeed

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Naturally, my first officer and I got a good laugh from this as our 757 was cruising along effortlessly at about 300 knots indicated airspeed, and was not yawing towards the supposedly dead engine. I simply told the purser to tell those were concerned that the engine was, indeed, running quite normally.

Indicated Airspeed

Fear of Landing

MAY 16, 2025

In the Boeing 777 (and many other modern aircraft), the call-out for V 1 is automated and called out using a synthetic voice, so that it is triggered at the precise moment when the aircraft’s indicated airspeed reaches V 1. G-VIIT British Airways Boeing 777-236/ER photographed by Toms Del Coro. CC BY-SA 2.0

Thrust

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. With no money for flight instruction, my plan was for the military to pay for the training. The Navy’s primary trainer was the T-34B. Because of its diminutive stance, naval aviators dubbed it the “teeny weenie.”

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

To get the extra lift required for the turns, I had to dive to get extra airspeed so that the plane could turn at that same AOA. This meant that I could land normally on the runway, not overshoot, and did not need to be concerned with the airliners on the crossing runway.

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