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From Analog to Digital

Plane and Pilot

Aviation then was a realm of VOR needles, paper charts, and the pure joy of stick-and-rudder flight. Cockpit Revolution: Steam Gauges to Glass Thirty-three years ago, my Skipper’s panel was a cluster of analog “steam gauges”—altimeter, airspeed, and attitude indicators, their needles prone to subtle quivers.

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There Is Definitely an Art to the Intro Flight

Flying Magazine

READ MORE: Identify Triggers Before You Leave the Ground The contact number is necessary in the event of a weather cancellation. Some people get mighty cross when they get to the airport and learn the flight has been canceled due to weather. Watch the weather. that they just saw in the AATD.

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Voices from Combat: The Consolidated PB2Y Coronado Becomes a Bomber

Vintage Aviation News

This didnt correct the problem sufficiently, so the tail was completely revised, giving the horizontals dihedral and capping each with a large oval fin and rudder arrangement much like that of its Consolidated stablemate, the B-24 Liberator. If conditions (weather, enemy fire, target opportunities, etc.)

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Accident Briefs—July 2025

Plane and Pilot

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. Probable cause(s): The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from trees after takeoff, during high density altitude weather conditions. The calculated density altitude was 4,790 feet.

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Better Braking

Plane and Pilot

When thinking of ways to display your mastery of flight, most of us dream about buttery-smooth landings, or maybe maneuvers flown so precisely that the altimeter needles might as well have been just painted on. For that matter, we’re not all flying around with toe brakes.

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Pilot’s aviation app directory – 2025 Edition

iPad Pilot News

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. Avtech proFLIGHT This app is a high-quality weather tool for the professional flight crew.

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Better Braking

Plane and Pilot

When thinking of ways to display your mastery of flight, most of us dream about buttery-smooth landings, or maybe maneuvers flown so precisely that the altimeter needles might as well have been just painted on. For that matter, we’re not all flying around with toe brakes.