Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Cloud ceilings below 1,500 feet or cumulonimbus clouds can trigger a SPECI. This information is vital for determining cloud ceilings, especially during landing approaches. Low cloud ceilings, especially below 1,500 feet, lower visibility in VFR. A2992 : Altimeter setting of 29.92

Altimeter

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

By now, it was dark and the weather in Gaithersburg had deteriorated with fog and low cloud ceilings. However, the METAR for their destination showed an overcast ceiling at 200 feet above ground level and fog. Montgomery County Airpark (GAI) is at about 540 feet above mean sea level. He seemed to think this was something to be avoided.

Approach

iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Get the watch app here. Altimeter+ Display an altimeter flight instrument on your watch. It also includes complications to show the current ceiling or surface winds for a favorite airport ( read our full review of the ForeFlight Watch app here ).

Pilot

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

The altimeter started slipping. Ceilings drop. In an instant, the world outside vanished into a milky blur. The instruments in front of him were sharp and bright, but overwhelming. His scan fell apart within seconds. His heading wandered. He lost 200 feet before even noticing the descent. His instructor didnt say a word.

Pilot

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Cessna 172 has a maximum takeoff weight of 2,400 pounds, a service ceiling of 13,000 feet, a maximum speed of 123 knots, a stall speed of approximately 47 knots, and a rate of climb of 700 feet per minute. The classic six-pack of flight instruments that pilots have relied on for decades remains a staple in the Cessna 172.

Knot

Air Facts

DECEMBER 30, 2024

I completed the rest of the leg with a routine flight and some more mountain terrain with spectacular views although I did encounter solid cloud ceilings with the terrain sometimes less than a thousand feet below me and the cloud layer 500 feet above. Additionally, the needle on my altimeter at one point was swinging through 500 increments!

Weather

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

This central core extends up to around 10,000 feet MSL, the airspace’s ceiling. However, the ceiling for each shelf is the same as the core. Although Class B airspace has a typical ceiling of 10,000 feet MSL, exceptions exist. New York’s Class B airspace has a 7,000-foot ceiling, allowing more room for overflying aircraft.

Clearance

AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Green – VFR ( Visual Flight Rules ) Ceiling > 3,000 ft. C ( 12°F)/-11.0°C C ( 12°F) Remark: Very light icing In other words, typical gorgeous day atop Mt. Washington! Years ago, when we first had access to live, inflight METARs, I would have fun with my first officers by pulling up Mt Washington’s METAR.

Weather

Learn to Fly

MARCH 12, 2024

This is always reported in the sequence: amount, height, and type or indefinite ceiling/height (vertical visibility). For aviation purposes, the ceiling is the lowest broken or overcast layer, or vertical visibility into an obscuration. The altimeter setting is reported as inches of mercury (inHg) in a four-digit number group.

Weather

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

For Runway 35, we see a takeoff ninimum of 400-2 or standard with a minimum climb of 343’ per nautical mile to 5,200′ Remember, the basic assumption is that you are IFR and have a limited ceiling and visibility. That’s a big difference from standard isn’t it?

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

However, many older legacy autopilots take their roll commands from various instruments located within the six-pack, most often the turn coordinator, DG, and the altimeter. It is one thing to consider breaking a 400-foot ceiling when everything in the cockpit is working.

Cockpit

Air Facts

JULY 19, 2024

Before you realized it, the altimeter had wound itself well past the initial ceiling you had mentally calculated in your preflight planning, and now you found yourself squarely inside Class B airspace – OUCH! What to do if you inadvertently fly into Class B airspace?

Altimeter

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

It will be displayed here as opposed to being suspended from the glass ceiling of the nearby Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall as it has since 1976. However, Earhart encountered bad weather, including heavy icing and fog, and suffered mechanical failures in the form of a failed altimeter, a fuel leak, and a damaged exhaust manifold.

Airplanes

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Weather reports from the Naval Auxiliary Landing Field on the island warned of a low cloud ceiling, overcast at 700-800 feet. When I saw the altimeter start to climb I raised the landing gear and let out the breath I’d apparently been holding. However, just as the altimeter started to climb, the Baron faltered.

Runway

Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

KCPC was reporting IFR conditions with a 700’ ceiling and one mile visibility. Unicom also confirmed the weather was still showing a 700’ ceiling with one mile of visibility. Nothing scary, but any hope for a side view of that nearby rain buildup was probably not going to happen. Tuning in the AWOS, I heard an unpleasant surprise.

Descent

Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Cherokee Four Eight One, Allentown Approach, altimeter 30.48, remain at or above 3,500 feet." Having driven this highway a few times, I always find it hard not to imagine the incredible weight pressing down on the tunnel's ceiling. Where's Waldo Slatington? Was the airport before or after that ridge?

Runway