Approach Indicated Airspeed Stability 
Flight Training Central
MARCH 3, 2025
Practicing stalls will also help you learn the low airspeed flight characteristics of the airplane, and how to control the airplane at low airspeeds which is what you will encounter while maneuvering in the traffic pattern and approaching to land. As the airspeed slows into the white arc, extend the wing flaps.
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?
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One Mile at a Time
MARCH 20, 2025
degrees Less than one second before touchdown, the plane had an indicated airspeed of 134 knots, a ground speed of 111 knots, a bank angle of 7.1 Obviously it was gusty, but if youre not able to stabilize an approach, thats when a go around would ordinarily be performed.
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?
Flying Magazine
JUNE 30, 2025
It is as far forward as possible for stability under heavy braking and absorbs serious shock loading through a trailing-beam design. There are gap seals between the elevator and horizontal stabilizer, and the rudder and vertical stabilizer. What about the nosewheel itself? In our opinion, it’s brilliantly engineered.
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. Overture, with a double-delta wing, aft stabilizer, and four engines in separate cylindrical nacelles slung under the wings, differs from the final version of the 2707 mainly in size.
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.
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