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Airspeed and Altitude Control Simplified: Tips for Stable Flying

Pilot Institute

Using the VSI and Altimeter for Stability The vertical speed indicator and altimeter are your best tools for maintaining a steady altitude. Although they each provide specific information, using them together will give you a better picture of your stability. In a climb or descent, this is just as true.

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The Six Pack: Basic Flight Instruments

Pilot Institute

The six primary instruments (the six-pack) are the Attitude Indicator (AI), Heading Indicator (HI), Turn Coordinator, Airspeed Indicator, Altimeter, and the Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI). The stability of the spinning disc increases with an increase in mass or speed of the disc. The altimeter has two needles, one long and one short.

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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

Cessna 7358 Golf, you are cleared for the VOR Runway Three Zero approach to the Jefferson City Airport, report canceling IFR or missed approach…the Jeff City weather is 700 overcast, visibility one- and one-half miles with light freezing drizzle and fog, temperature two eight, dew point two seven, altimeter 29.69… say your intentions.

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Phugoid Motion in Aviation: What It Is and Why It Matters

Pilot Institute

Well discuss how phugoid motion relates to your aircrafts stability, what you can do to counter it, and even look at what it can do to an aircraft in severe cases. Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. What can make an aircraft do that?

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The anatomy of a commercial flight – all you ever wanted to know:   Part two   

Aerotime

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.

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Airspeed & Vertical Speed

Plane and Pilot

If there’s a hill to climb, there are two options: Leave the throttle alone, and the car (airplane) will climb the hill but slow down and stabilize at a slower speed going up the hill. For example, in a 200-feet-per-minute descent, a typical light plane will only gain a little speed. Does that mean too fast, too high, or a combination?

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“Totally a visibility issue.”

Fear of Landing

The controller confirmed a descent to 3,000 feet, the minimum safe altitude for BEGKA. There was no real way of testing the stability of everything that high up. 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.