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

Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

This particular 172 normally cruised at 120 mph indicated airspeed, but with the ice it would barely do 90 mph and that required full throttle! But the prolonged operation at full throttle and reduced airspeed made a fuel stop at Kirksville, in Northern Missouri a necessity. What had happened? How can this be?

VOR

AV Web

MAY 20, 2025

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. But I somehow had it fixed in my mind that I was approaching from the south, to Runway 35. Never mind the instruments that showed me flying south. No one did that, by the way.

Runway

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Location of the Honeywell SI-800 airspeed indicator on a 757/767 panel Inputs All airspeed indicators need two air inputs. Ram air from a pitot tube and static (undisturbed) outside air from a static port, usually a hole on the side of the fuselage.

Pitot Tube