Flight Instruments vs. Avionics
WayMan
JUNE 16, 2025
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.
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How to Obtain the Perfect Aviation Weather Briefing for Your Flight
Northstar VFR
MAY 16, 2024
By Leslie Caubble, CFI/IGI Technology in aviation has advanced tremendously since the early days of flying, but one thing has not changed: the weather. Perhaps one of the reasons is that the abundance of weather products available on the internet, TV, handbooks , etc. You should have your personal weather minimums written down.
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Professional Pilot
AUGUST 8, 2024
Pilots can practice instrument procedures, cockpit resource management, and adverse weather handling, among many other skills. CAE has an airline training focus with nearly twice as many training centers catering to airline training (36) as corporate (15) and helicopter (10).
20 Degrees Left
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Of course, you don’t need one to fly cross-country, or to use advanced avionics, but it would make these sorts of business cross-countries less susceptible to some weather delays. And this summer afternoon did have weather. The Saratoga, like most single-engine piston aircraft, was not equipped with a weather radar dish.
How to Perform a Go-Around (The Right Way)
Pilot Institute
JUNE 26, 2024
Weather Go-arounds due to weather occur due to wind shear caused by gusting winds or microbursts. Example of a Preventable Accident A prime example of when a go-around could’ve prevented an accident is in the case of Southwest Airlines Flight 1455. So, it’s important to use the flight instruments to maintain control.
In Search of the Headless Horseman
Photographic Logbook
OCTOBER 28, 2023
As our trip to Sleepy Hollow neared, forecasts for IFR weather inspired a shuffling of airplanes and pilots so that our seven adventurers were distributed among three IFR-capable airplanes with current IFR pilots. Eventually, we passed through the cold front that had pushed the dismal weather into Sodus that morning.
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