Approach, Cockpit and Indicated Airspeed

Delta Connection flight received sink rate alert before Toronto Pearson crash

Aerotime

MARCH 21, 2025

TSB Approach sequence Due to reported wind gusts as the CRJ900 approached Toronto Pearson following a flight from MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport (MSP) the aircraft was flown at 149 knots. One second later (2.6seconds before touchdown), the EGPWS alert sink rate sounded, indicating a high rate of descent.

Indicated Airspeed

Indicated Airspeed Descent Knot Horizontal Stabilizer

Airspeed and Altitude Control Simplified: Tips for Stable Flying

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

If you’re aiming to get comfortable with managing both airspeed and altitude in flight, you’ll need to understand the difference between indicated airspeed (IAS) and true airspeed (TAS). Key Takeaways Airspeed and altitude are directly linked to each other throughout different phases of your flight. Why is that?

True Airspeed

True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Altimeter Lift

Icing, Systems, and Human Factors: Preliminary Findings on Voepass flight 2283

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The CRUISE SPEED LOW is the first level of APM alert, and means that the indicated airspeed is at least ten knots slower than the predicted speed for their current configuration. They were interrupted by São Paulo Approach asking them to try a different radio frequency, as they had reported a slight echo on the frequency.

Knot

Knot Approach Descent Weather

We Fly: Cirrus SR G7

Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

That’s why the fresh approach Cirrus took to its next model in the SR series makes a lot of sense. Stephen Yeates] A Beginner’s Mind When you must approach something from a fresh perspective, it helps to go into a beginner’s mindset. It also prevents you from retracting the flaps when airspeed is too low. A stick shaker.

Pilot

Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet

The Classic Boeing Airspeed Indicator

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The Honeywell SI-800 Airspeed/Mach Indicator has been a standard instrument on the Boeing 737, 747, 757, and 767 for decades. Boeing stopped installing the stand-alone indicator in favor of modern, reliable flat panel displays. Digital Data Airspeed The Indicated Airspeed (above 30 knots) is displayed in a digital format.

Pitot Tube

Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed Knot Altimeter

Flight vision systems

Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Corporate pilots who had seen nothing but gray or rain outside the windshield suddenly could see the terrain, obstacles, runways, approaches, their own flightpath ahead, and even traffic in 3D. SVS is integrated with flight instruments and primary flight displays (PFDs) to give flight data, such as heading, altitude, airspeed, and attitude.

Flight Deck

Flight Deck Primary Flight Display Approach Runway

Aviation Winds Types Explained: A Pilot’s In-Depth Guide

Air

MAY 21, 2025

For landing, it means a shorter landing roll and a slower approach speed over the ground, offering enhanced control. For landing, it increases your groundspeed on approach and extends the landing distance. Can cause sudden losses or gains in indicated airspeed (IAS), directly affecting lift.

Crosswind

Crosswind Wind Shear Groundspeed Flight Computer

NASA Forms

AV Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

In another incident, an air carrier pilot noticed an unusual reading on the cockpit oxygen gauge during preflight (this sounds vague, which is one of the negative aspects of the making the data base anonymous). I would prefer to be 5 or 10 knots slower than the barber pole (maximum indicated airspeed in a turbine airplane) or red line.

Aeronautical Information Manual

Aeronautical Information Manual Airplanes Pilot Indicated Airspeed

Boom: Is This the Resurrection of Supersonic Travel?

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

Approaching and passing through Mach 1, however, an airplane acquires, in addition to the drag it already has, a new kind of drag, called wave drag. Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144 cruised at Mach 2 at 60,000 feet, where their indicated airspeed was only 380 knots, but the friction of air heated their noses to 260 degrees Fahrenheit.

Drag

Drag Airplanes Knot Indicated Airspeed

Navy primary flight training—the instructor had it coming

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. We could practice in a cockpit procedures trainer next to the briefing area.

Cockpit

Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed

Panic, And How Not To

AV Web

MAY 20, 2025

Knowing what to do ahead of time helps prevent the kind of in-cockpit panic that can lead to paralysis by analysis and other undesirable human factors. The base had switched runways from Runway 35 to Runway 17, so that when I came back into the base I was approaching the traffic pattern from the north. No one did that, by the way.

Runway

Runway Pitot Tube Aileron Indicated Airspeed

What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This broad scope approach is ultimately needed to help keep our friends, created in the image of God, alive. The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure).

General Aviation

General Aviation Pilot Approach Airplanes

Invisible Trap Kills Glider Pilot – How To Avoid Microbursts

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

Approaching Rifle The last six minutes of Shmulik’s flight are plotted on the following map. Unsurprisingly, the actual glide ratio of his 49:1 glider was much better than the required 14:1 and he approached the airport relatively high. This would have shortened his approach, a seemingly prudent decision.