Air Facts

JUNE 4, 2025

I focused on the panel: attitude indicator, heading indicator, altimeter. I acknowledged and began a gentle descent. I locked into a steady scan: attitude, altimeter, turn coordinator, back to heading. Trust the tools. The first leg was uneventfulin the best way. Recommend descending to 4,000 feet for clearer conditions.

Altimeter

Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

Investigators noted at the time of the accident the temperature was 30 degrees Celsius, the dew point was 4 C, and the altimeter setting was 29.98. The airplane made a slow descent toward the east for about nine minutes, away from the destination airport. The wings and fuselage sustained substantial damage.

Density Altitude

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

We will also examine the next most critical phase of our flight, from descent and deceleration to the approach and landing phases, even touching upon what happens when the aircraft arrives safely at the gate. Mario Hagen / Shutterstock The announcement will also be one of the first items on the pilots before-descent checklist.

Cabin Crew

Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

Pilots rely on the airspeed indicator and altimeter instruments to measure and display this vital information. The static port is connected to the ASI, altimeter, and VSI. How does the pitot-static system operate the altimeter? The altimeter utilizes the static port to receive inputs of the outside static pressure.

Pitot Tube

Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If you’re on a non-precision or precision approach, understanding MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude) and DA (Decision Altitude) is incredibly important. The main difference: MDA involves leveling off, while DA involves deciding during descent. These paths guide the airplane safely during its descent. What does that mean?

Altimeter

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The controller confirmed a descent to 3,000 feet, the minimum safe altitude for BEGKA. At the point of the visual descent (visual should perhaps be in quotes here), the Mooney was still a mile and a half from the runway but flying at 587 feet. The pilot is not to descend below these altitudes until they can see the runway lights. .

Approach

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

For example, in a 200-feet-per-minute descent, a typical light plane will only gain a little speed. The altimeter will tell us how much height we’ve gained, but estimating how fast the needles are turning (or the tape is sliding past) is a lousy way to tell how fast the altitude is changing.

Airplanes

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

First, the airplane is more stable in pitch than bank and, if you are a typical VFR pilot, you refer to the altimeter more than to the heading indicator. Just as an excessive climb or descent will cause you to overshoot altitude, an excessive rate of turn results in overshooting the target heading. Now let’s look at descents.

Descent

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

The altimeter started slipping. He lost 200 feet before even noticing the descent. A quick look at winds aloft while planning the descent. The clearance was amended just before top of descent. In an instant, the world outside vanished into a milky blur. His scan fell apart within seconds. His heading wandered.

Pilot

WayMan

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Maneuvering : IAS helps pilots maintain control during climbs, turns, and descents. Cross-Check Instruments : Use the altimeter and vertical speed indicator to confirm IAS accuracy. Weather Variations : Provides a stable reference point even when external conditions change.

Indicated Airspeed

iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Get the watch app here. Altimeter+ Display an altimeter flight instrument on your watch. It continuously displays the direction and distance to nearby airports, along with a navigation instrument to guide you to a selected airport and descent planning data based on your current groundspeed.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. We can calculate the rate of descent required to achieve a 3° profile. Add a zero to this number, and you have your target rate of descent. Add a zero, and that gives you a 400ft target rate of descent. Good question.

Airplanes

Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

The altimeter now showed 5,000' and we had plummeted through the altitude of the scattered cloud layer. Slip-Slip With the 5,000 foot long grass runway of the Geneseo Airport in sight, I pulled the power back slightly for a standard 500 foot/minute descent and set myself up for an appropriate pattern entry. Chop and drop!"

Rudder

Air Facts

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Upon clearing the Pine Valley Mountain range, I began my descent once clear of its 10,000-foot peak past breathtaking red sandstone cliff walls to the 2,800 ft elevation field. Additionally, the needle on my altimeter at one point was swinging through 500 increments! My approach into St.

Weather

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Any substantial changes to speed and descent rate will destabilize the landing. The drag allows for a steeper descent, which is particularly helpful when avoiding obstacles. The local altimeter setting is 29.65, the temperature is 25°C, and we have a 9-knot headwind. Our imaginary destination airport is at 1,500 feet MSL.

Weight-Shift-Control

iPad Pilot News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

From a flight safety standpoint, the app will alert you to a high cabin altitude, nearby terrain/obstacles, high sink rates, descent through 500 AGL, and nearby traffic and carbon monoxide when coupled with a Sentry ADS-B receiver.

Pilot

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

This system includes modes for: roll pitch heading vertical speed altitude hold approach These modes allow for a steady rate of descent, ascent, and consistent speed and altitude ranges. The classic six-pack of flight instruments that pilots have relied on for decades remains a staple in the Cessna 172.

Knot

Pilot Institute

MAY 1, 2024

The landing minimums section includes: Minimum descent altitudes. Preflight Planning Some pilots believe an approach briefing means skimming the chart right before descent. Identify the decision altitude (DA) or minimum descent altitude (MDA) valid for your approach. Set your altimeter bug accordingly.

Approach

Pilot Institute

MAY 9, 2024

It’s just S-turns with climbs and descents, right? Glance at your altimeter. It’s an amazing feeling to hit your target altitude without having glanced at the altimeter. Lazy eights sound like the least challenging commercial checkride maneuver to learn. Thankfully, lazy eights don’t have to be such a struggle.

Rudder

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Altimeter+ Calculates the altitude of your current location via GPS, or from the built-in barometer included on newer iPhones and iPads.Offers Apple Watch app. Airbus FlySmart Airbus offers a collection of apps for pilots to assistwith performance planning, maintenance and other operational guidance when flying these airplanes.

Weather

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 3, 2025

and any adjustments to be made (runway lighting out of service, remote altimeter setting, etc.). For example, the profile view in SmartCharts shows the descent angle for an LNAV+V approach (one with an advisory glideslope) and also the visual glideslope angle (like a PAPI). Some of the smaller details are also surprisingly helpful.

NOTAMs

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 2, 2024

Increasing altitude – read from your altimeter. Decreasing altitude – read from your altimeter. An increasing rate of descent. Decreasing altitude – read from your altimeter. High rate of descent – shown on your vertical speed indicator. – read from your vertical speed indicator.

Altimeter

Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

I requested a descent from 6,000’ down to 4,000’ and was denied due to traffic. I was soon cleared to descend to 4,000’ and entered IMC during the descent while I located the approach chart to brief. I began a rapid descent from 3,000’ down to the 2,000’ for the IAF. We’re now following a Saratoga. The IAF was looming closer.

Descent

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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. I didn’t feel the plane hit any runway lights so I assumed I’d managed to keep the plane going straight enough for government work.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Closed traffic Aircraft does not plan to leave traffic pattern Go ahead Proceed with your message – does not refer to any movement.

Aeronautical Information Manual

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Closed traffic Aircraft does not plan to leave traffic pattern Go ahead Proceed with your message – does not refer to any movement.

Aeronautical Information Manual

Air Facts

AUGUST 14, 2024

Cruise, not so much—you’re being handed off from one sector to the next, plugging in a new altimeter along the way (hopefully). Ok, maybe it doesn’t exactly work that way, but I do know if you mind your engine temps during climbs and descents and learn how to use that red knob effectively in cruise, your engine will definitely be happier.

Altimeter