Altimeter Runway Turbulence 
Aerotime
DECEMBER 20, 2024
While many believe that down-pull blinds are simply more susceptible to turbulence or heavy landings, making them more likely to simply drop down, there is an even more logical explanation than this. This again is a safety feature, but one which has traditionally been misinterpreted.
Air Facts
JUNE 4, 2025
Taxiing to Runway 06, I ran through the before-takeoff checklist: fuel selector both, flaps up, mixture rich, lights on. I focused on the panel: attitude indicator, heading indicator, altimeter. As I re-entered the clouds, turbulence increased. I locked into a steady scan: attitude, altimeter, turn coordinator, back to heading.
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Flying Magazine
APRIL 29, 2025
If you use an AATD for the first part of the experience, when you get into the actual aircraft, point out the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, etc. While you may be OK with marginal VFR, turbulence, and winds 10 gusting to 18, chances are pretty good the customer wont be if it is their first flight in a small airplane.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. A few minutes later, we heard the center controller clear a Trans Missouri Airlines commuter plane for the VOR Runway 30 approach to Jefferson City. How can this be?
iPad Pilot News
DECEMBER 17, 2024
These range from passive red badges on flight plan waypoints and approach charts to identify NOTAMs and closed runways, to on-screen pop-ups accompanied by an aural message to make sure the app gets your attention. And the performance planning feature will warn you if computed takeoff or landing distances exceed available runway lengths.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Runway visual range (RVR) under 2,400 feet triggers a SPECI, and another is issued if it rises to 2,400 feet or more within 10 minutes. Well, these events can quickly affect visibility or runway conditions so much that they call for a special report. Runway visual range (RVR). Let’s look at each weather condition. Visibility.
Air
MAY 21, 2025
Drawbacks: For takeoff, a tailwind significantly increases the required runway length and results in a shallower climb angle. Effects: It will try to push your aeroplane sideways off the runway centreline. It is a particularly insidious phenomenon that can be a prime cause of turbulence.
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