Plane and Pilot

JUNE 23, 2025

Moments later, the airplane crashed. While it wasn’t a particularly hot day, Big Bear’s density altitude was reported as 8,200 feet, resulting in a higher true airspeed compared to indicated airspeed. Increasing true airspeed makes the turn radius wider, resulting in an overshoot.

True Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

JULY 10, 2025

Jet pilots are all aware that up in the flight levels, they thrive on the increased true airspeed that the low atmospheric density produces. Up in the flight levels, jets fly at relatively low indicated airspeed and still cruise at 7-8 miles per minute. It should not have been a surprise, but it was. Glad the runway was so long.

Density Altitude

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Thats your true airspeed. Calibrated airspeed is not the same as indicated airspeed. However, the difference is a few knots for general aviation airspeeds and altitudes. For example, if its 120, look for the number 12 on the scale. Read the corresponding number on the outer scale.

Groundspeed

Professional Pilot

JULY 7, 2025

However, with no room to navigate up the steep glacial valley, the pilots finessed the airplane over the hurdle with no more than 200 ft of clearance. In addition, decreased air density also decreases ram air pressure, meaning a indicated airspeed from a pressure-based airspeed indicator will read lower than the true airspeed.

Density Altitude

Fear of Landing

JANUARY 24, 2025

airspeed 85 [kt indicated airspeed] KIAS fuel quantity check fuel selector valve fuller tank mixture rich auxiliary fuel pump on for 3-5 seconds with throttle open; then off ignition switch both (or start if propeller is stopped) throttle: advance slowly.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JUNE 30, 2025

CubCrafters offered to bring FLYING the first of the kitbuilt NXCubs to north Idaho and turn us loose with it for two weeks to fly into the backcountry—introducing pilots of all experience and skill levels to the airplane. CubCrafters said its goal was to build an airplane with a 1,000-pound useful load. That got our attention.

Gross Weight

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

Concorde was a beautiful airplane, and it remains the object of much nostalgic admiration, but the world did not hurry to replace it. Now that ban, whose obtuse wording would apply even to a perfectly silent supersonic airplane if there were such a thing, is under new scrutiny, and NASA is studying ways of making sonic booms less annoying.

Drag

Air Facts

MARCH 10, 2025

Their peripheral vision and hand-eye coordination barely work for pickleball, let alone landing an airplane.” You needed some familiarity with performance charts for the written test, but it’s during the nav log lesson that you must read and understand the performance charts of the airplane you’re actually flying.

Checkride

AV Web

MAY 20, 2025

In fact, the current Airplane Flying Handbook (AFH) contains just three instances of the word, each of which is associated with responding to an in-flight emergency. According to Merriam-Webster, panic implies unreasoning and overmastering fear causing hysterical activity.

Runway

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 21, 2025

Airspeed guides everything from takeoff to landing and every phase in between. But did you know there are several types of airspeed, each serving a unique purpose? Like Indicated Airspeed (IAS) , Calibrated Airspeed (CAS) , True Airspeed (TAS) , and more! What Are The Different Types of Airspeed?

Calibrated Airspeed

iPad Pilot News

AUGUST 20, 2024

The panel in your airplane shows indicated airspeed (IAS, derived from the pitot tube on the wing), while the iPad shows groundspeed (derived from the GPS in your ADS-B receiver or iPad). While the altimeter in the airplane can be adjusted to correct for the local altimeter setting, there is no temperature knob to twist.

Altimeter

Flight Training Central

APRIL 8, 2024

Airspeed indicator. Vertical-speed and airspeed indicators. Vertical-speed indicator, airspeed indicator, and altimeter. Altimeter setting is the value to which the barometric pressure scale of the altimeter is set so the altimeter indicates absolute altitude at field elevation. Vertical speed.

Airplanes

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 9, 2024

What is the maximum indicated airspeed you may fly when operating under BasicMed? Can you fly a multiengine airplane that is authorized to carry eight occupants under BasicMed? No, pilots are not authorized to operate an airplane with more than one engine under BasicMed. June 31, 2026 June 15, 2028 June 30, 2028 Correct!

Indicated Airspeed

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

But how to do so when you’ve known the airplane since its early development years, as I have? She warned me ahead of time that the airplane wouldn’t appear different from the outside but to expect something truly different inside. The logic is, if you can enter the airplane with the key fob, you can start the engine.

Pilot

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Large turbine engine powered airplanes are not permitted to operate below the Class B airspace when en route to or from the primary airport within the airspace. Class B Speed Limitations Aircraft flying within the Class B airspace may fly at an indicated airspeed of up to 250 knots.

Indicated Airspeed

AV Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A lot of reports come from air carrier pilots, which makes sense because they fly the most, but there are plenty of GA airplanes in the mix as well. One pilot got such warning after ATC vectored the airplane onto a charted segment 700 feet below the charted altitude for that segment. Plus controllers and mechanics.

Aeronautical Information Manual

Flight Training Central

MARCH 18, 2024

indicated airspeed, the speed limit for operations below 10,000′ MSL. indicated airspeed. You’ll typically see lots of airline traffic in Class B airspace, usually heaviest around pushes as an airline lands or departs many of its airplanes close together. You may not exceed 200 kts.

AGL

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There’s a reason why basic airplane attitude instrument flying comes first in any Instrument curriculum – it’s the foundation for everything else you’ll do in IFR flying. As the complete instrument pilot, you should be able to maintain heading, altitude, and airspeed at speeds ranging from cruise to approach.

Descent

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

A perfectly good airplane with everything operating as expected. What specific indicated airspeed will be flown/adhered to during the circling maneuver? The HAA (height above airport) is one that by design is biased on operational necessities along with the assumptions of four very salient and important cornerstones.

Approach

Pilot Institute

MAY 9, 2024

The higher speed creates extra lift, causing the airplane to bank further into the turn. The pilot’s job is to prevent the airplane from banking too quickly or too far. In our example, the right wing has more lift, and thus more drag, than the left wing as the airplane rolls. As the aircraft pitches up, the airspeed drops.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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. ATC offers IFR and VFR aircraft separation services in Class C.

Clearance

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

Caught in series of up and down drafts, the autopilot pitched the Warrior aggressively to maintain altitude and the indicated airspeed trended too high in each updraft. Repositioning Flight When we arrived at Rochester in the rain, it appeared that the best plan was to move the airplane the following day. I logged about 0.7

Ceiling

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

So, on days when we are taking off or landing at an airfield with low air density, we require faster true airspeeds to generate the required lift. This increased true airspeed, along with other factors increases takeoff and landing distances. High-density altitude, on the other hand, indicates thin air.

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. The sole probable cause was the pilot’s ‘improper aerobatic maneuver…that exceeded the airplane’s design limits. The pilot died instantly. After crossing U.S.

True Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. The sole probable cause was the pilot’s ‘improper aerobatic maneuver…that exceeded the airplane’s design limits. The pilot died instantly. After crossing U.S.

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 had also forgotten that today, everyone is an authority on things they know nothing about, such as airplanes.

Indicated Airspeed

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure). An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect.

General Aviation

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 15, 2024

As part of your preflight preparation, you should always consult the POH/AFM performance charts to determine the airplane performance is acceptable for a safe takeoff and climb for the conditions and location. Once the brakes are released as the airplane accelerates, adjust the airplane’s pitch to attain minimum drag and maximum acceleration.

Density Altitude

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

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

This is a hard one to gain insight from other than this: Some atmospheric events are bigger than our plastic airplanes. Without knowing the horizontal wind direction and speed at this point it is impossible to say what his indicated airspeed was. His ground speed had dropped to 75 kt so he also had less kinetic energy reserve.

Pilot