Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This article will teach you ways to deal with weather, routes, altitude choices, and using helpful tools when flying in poor visibility. Key Takeaways Creating an IFR flight plan requires looking at weather patterns, fuel requirements, and alternate airports. You should start with these weather resources: METARs : Current conditions.

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. If the data is close, and the margins are thin, just don’t go.

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

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. It was easy enough to avoid Oakland and San Francisco Terminal Control Areas, now Class B, but Bay Area weather was completely different from New England. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.” and form a low overcast.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Pounding on the airplane to loosen ice was forbidden. It was easy enough to avoid Oakland and San Francisco Terminal Control Areas, now Class B, but Bay Area weather was completely different from New England. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.” and form a low overcast.

Knot

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. Avtech proFLIGHT This app is a high-quality weather tool for the professional flight crew. And its the easiest way to manage multiple Bluetooth connections.

Weather

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. ICAO minima for circling approaches is much higher than that stipulated in the FARs so consider higher weather minima. We also benefit from the latest weather updates. A proactive policy may very well be to prohibit night circling approaches Weather updates?

Approach

AV Web

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The ultimate goal is feeling safe flying IFR trips – some short, some long – in reasonable weather. Gus had scribbled down a list of mostly minor squawks, but he was thrilled with the true airspeed readouts he saw on the hour-plus hop to SMQ. He was slightly shocked when someone actually…bought it.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

When flying through a high-pressure weather system, the same volume of air contains more molecules. The opposite is true for low-pressure weather systems. Obtain current weather data from an ATIS or local weather station for accurate calculations. As the atmospheric pressure changes, so does air density.

Density Altitude

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Piper pre-owner turboprops are appealing to operators stepping up from high performance twin- or single-piston airplanes. Synthetic and enhanced flight vision systems (SVS ans EFVS, respectively) come standard, and options include controller-pilot data link communication (CPDLC), MultiScan weather radar, and XM graphical weather.

Jet

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Piper pre-owner turboprops are appealing to operators stepping up from high performance twin- or single-piston airplanes. Synthetic and enhanced flight vision systems (SVS ans EFVS, respectively) come standard, and options include controller-pilot data link communication (CPDLC), MultiScan weather radar, and XM graphical weather.

Jet

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Weather, field conditions, obstacles, and many other elements greatly affect short field operations. 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. Performing short field landings requires careful consideration.

Weight-Shift-Control

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. He frequently hosted visiting pilots, providing them with detailed briefings of the area and the weather. We all want to learn from accidents, especially what were the pilot errors we might avoid.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 4, 2025

The rest is just lift, drag, thrust, weather, and navigation. Most of the controllers speak passable English, and generally the weather in the eastern 90 percent of South America is better than the same quantity of acres in the United States. But first, take stock of your airplane and skills. Oh, and some money. You can do this.

Flight Plan