Altimeter Ceiling General Aviation 
Flying Magazine
MAY 30, 2025
The altimeter started slipping. iFly EFB is a good example of an option designed specifically for general aviation (GA) pilots, offering powerful yet user-friendly tools for both VFR and IFR operations. Ceilings drop. In an instant, the world outside vanished into a milky blur. His scan fell apart within seconds.
Airspeed Junkie
AUGUST 2, 2024
However, the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 paved the way for its return, and production resumed in 1996. This legislation helped rejuvenate the general aviation market, and the Cessna 172 once again became a staple in flight schools and private ownership.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 24, 2024
Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. 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.
Plane and Pilot
AUGUST 10, 2024
Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” The average age of the current general aviation fleet is somewhere between 35 and 50 years. It is one thing to consider breaking a 400-foot ceiling when everything in the cockpit is working.
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.
Fear of Landing
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Catalina Airport is open to general aviation from 08:00 to 17:00. 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.
Photographic Logbook
DECEMBER 16, 2023
Cherokee Four Eight One, Allentown Approach, altimeter 30.48, remain at or above 3,500 feet." A multilayered example of cluelessness, the episode was not a shining moment for general aviation. 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.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
106 
Let's personalize your content