Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

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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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Altimeter Lift 52

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.

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Cabin Crew Descent Runway Approach 265

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 27, 2025

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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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

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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Airplanes Descent Pilot Altimeter 94

Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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.

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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.

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Descent Altimeter Airplanes Indicated Airspeed 52

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

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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