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

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

If you can manage to do so without putting yourself at risk after leaving your last cleared routing, you should: Maintain a true airspeed of no more than 400knots and preferably an altitude between 10,000 and 25,000feet. The controller will then avoid asking unnecessary questions to prevent alerting any hijackers on board.

Transponder

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The electronic E6B is equally useful when in the airplane, to help determine actual winds aloft, true airspeed, fuel burn, and descent planning. Calculate the planned groundspeed if the winds aloft are forecast to be from 250 at 15 knots flying a true course of 130 with a true airspeed of 112 knots.

Flight Plan

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

Velocity Andrews, North Carolina/Injuries: 1 Fatal NTSB Report: ERA23FA194 The owner recently purchased the experimental amateur-built, modified airplane. He did not have a lot of experience in the make and model airplane, so he hired the accident pilot to conduct the first flight since recent modifications.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

True airspeed. The Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and Traffic Advisory System (TAS) provide important information about other airplanes in the vicinity. Filing an IFR flight plan is easy and involves the following two steps: 1. Gather Essential Information Aircraft identification. Type of flight. Departure point.

Flight Plan

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.

Density Altitude

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

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

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

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! Lets break down the six types of airspeed!

Calibrated Airspeed

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Airplane performance can be defined as the capability of an airplane to operate effectively while serving a specific purpose. The result of an alteration in airflow patterns increasing induced drag about the wings of an airplane. Determine the approximate landing ground roll distance. a higher-than-normal angle of attack.

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Army L-4 Grasshopper colors, this unique airplane was factory-built in 2007 as a light sport aircraft (LSA). This particular example is a two-owner airplane, hangared since new and looks the part. The seller reports cruising at a true airspeed (TAS) of 85 mph and 6 gallons per hour at 3,000 feet.

True Airspeed

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

“Wing warping,” as this approach was called, was satisfactory for very slow airplanes, but faster ones required more rigidity, and by around 1908 or 1909 the idea had arisen of replacing part of the trailing edge of a wing with a hinged, controllable flap. His invention had been forgotten, however, by the time real airplanes came into being.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

Piper PA-28-180 Riverside, California/Injuries: 1 Minor NTSB Report: WPR23LA156 The pilot completed the airplanes engine run-up and carburetor heat function checks with no anomalies noted. Velocity Andrews, North Carolina/Injuries: 1 Fatal NTSB Report: ERA23FA194 The owner recently purchased the experimental amateur-built, modified airplane.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Pounding on the airplane to loosen ice was forbidden. With this airplane, DA presented a caution, but never really a threat. On one trip home, we had a 50-knot headwind, really annoying at a true airspeed of only 125. The AirCam was far and away the best airplane for giving rides, screaming along at 70 knots.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Pounding on the airplane to loosen ice was forbidden. With this airplane, DA presented a caution, but never really a threat. On one trip home, we had a 50-knot headwind, really annoying at a true airspeed of only 125. The AirCam was far and away the best airplane for giving rides, screaming along at 70 knots.

Knot

AV Web

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Not the type to let the good autumn flying weather go to waste, Gus has been quick to seek out his next airplane, and in the middle of writing this today, I checked FlightAware to see that the Piper Arrow II he was eyeing was airborne on its way to KSMQ for a prebuy inspection. He was slightly shocked when someone actually…bought it.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

This means that if you encounter these conditions on a particular day, you would need to achieve a higher true airspeed to produce the same lift that would be generated at lower airspeeds in denser air. This increased true airspeed, along with other factors increases takeoff and landing distances.

Density Altitude

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

.” It works on both airplanes. I get the same kick pouring on the coal and taking off in any airplane and feel just as good when I slick one on, or just as unsettled when I klunk one. So they are both airplanes. That’s why so many airline pilots are private pilots too and own airplanes. It’s in freedom.

Weather

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

A perfectly good airplane with everything operating as expected. Particular attention to true airspeed vs. turn radius. 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

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Airbus FlySmart Airbus offers a collection of apps for pilots to assistwith performance planning, maintenance and other operational guidance when flying these airplanes. Bombardier Aerospace This collection of apps provides eLearning, operating procedures and maintenance utilities for operators of Bombardier jet airplanes.

Weather

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Your aircraft will fly at a faster true airspeed at higher density altitudes. Airplanes with higher wing loading may need power all the way until the flare. Temperature An increase in temperature will increase the density altitude. A high density altitude decreases the performance of the engine and the wing.

Weight-Shift-Control

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Piper pre-owner turboprops are appealing to operators stepping up from high performance twin- or single-piston airplanes. According to published specs, the XP67A and ancillary upgrades will allow the aircraft to achieve a 55% reduction in time to climb and a true airspeed of at least 343 kts.

Jet

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Piper pre-owner turboprops are appealing to operators stepping up from high performance twin- or single-piston airplanes. According to published specs, the XP67A and ancillary upgrades will allow the aircraft to achieve a 55% reduction in time to climb and a true airspeed of at least 343 kts.

Jet

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

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. A sudden and very powerful wind gust from behind, which caused the airplane to stall and spin in just as he was in the midst of his final turn.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 22, 2025

The turn coordinator combines two instruments into one: A rate of turn indicator A slip/skid indicator (Inclinometer) The Rate of Turn Indicator The rate of turn on a turn coordinator is represented by a small airplane symbol that rolls (rotates) right or left depending on the bank angle and the rate of turn.

Longitudinal Axis

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 4, 2025

But first, take stock of your airplane and skills. What is your range and true airspeed? Argentina is a superb trip on its own, but Buenos Aires for small airplanes is like choosing to combine the worst of Washington, D.C., This form guarantees you wont be selling your airplane while you are in Brazil.

Flight Plan