Flying Magazine

JULY 28, 2025

The new regulation, first proposed in 2023, will reform the light sport aircraft (LSA) category by replacing current weight-based limitations with a performance-based standard. With a gross weight of 1,653 pounds and a stall speed of 51 knots, the aircraft fits well within the new specification of the rule changes.

Gross Weight

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Its forgiving flight characteristics, such as its stable stall behavior and straightforward controls, allow new pilots to gain confidence in the cockpit. Weight and Load Weight is one of the primary factors affecting the Cessna 172s speed.

Knot

Plane and Pilot

MAY 12, 2025

The oil filler cap and dipstick are both located inside the cockpit, by the pilots left knee, eliminating the requirement to climb over the cowling during preflight. The result was a nearly 400-pound increase in gross weight and a 2,600-pound useful load. Of course, de Havilland was not the only company to improve the Beaver.

Gross Weight

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 2, 2025

The average gross weight was 115,000 pounds. The door to the cockpit area is open, showing a view of the ladder that folds down to be used by the pilots to enter and leave the area. Boeing B-47A Stratojet NACA 150 landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The B-47A fuselage was 106 feet 11 inches in length. NASA Photo

Gross Weight

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

The cockpit was enclosed, with an adjustable seat for Hughes to look over the long nose of the Racer on takeoff and landing. Still, Hughes enjoyed the thrill of flight too much, and after fitting into his flight overalls and climbing into the cockpit, the H-1’s Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior engine roared to life.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

JUNE 27, 2025

The airframe weighs in at 623 pounds empty with a gross weight of 1,150 pounds, offering a useful load of 527 pounds—plenty of room for pilot, passenger, and fuel. 2006 Sonex TD [Courtesy: Tom Prevost] The two-seater cockpit features cloth seats and the airplane’s future owner will find that its side panels are in excellent condition.

Gross Weight

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 5, 2025

Cockpit of the restored Boeing Model 80A-1 NC224M at the Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington. gross weight. (Don gross weight. The decade of the 1920’s saw the advent of civilian air transport and some of the earliest were the Ford Tri-Motor, the Fokker Tri-Motor, and the Boeing Model 80 Tri-Motor.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

JULY 9, 2025

Should I treat every VFR hop like I’m departing into low IMC with a 10,000-foot density altitude at max gross weight? But viewing every flight as a math problem tends to keep your head inside the cockpit—and it drains some of the fun. Do I need to spend hours on ForeFlight before every local flight?

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

During preflight, I used the EFB to add fuel and reserves, keeping the weight below the need for water injection, called a “wet takeoff,” which is standard operating procedure when the DC-6 is over 89,000 lbs gross weight. The DC-6 rewarded my use of the reverser with a cacophony of wonderful radial engine noise.

Flight Deck

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

Knot

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

The production model P-67 was also intended to be fitted with a pressurized cockpit, a novel concept for WWII fighters, and with an armament of six 37mm M4 cannons installed in the wings inboard of the engines, but these were not installed on the prototype. However, the overall performance was still underwhelming.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It is unlikely that an additional cockpit instrument, such as AOA, will provide any additional safety benefit in such stressed pilot situations. In my old flying club, two checkouts in the Cessna 210 were required because of different handling qualities with gross weight. One checkout was at normal weight and c.g.

Gross Weight

Professional Pilot

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Aspen Avionics Aspen markets its Evolution Synthetic Vision as an $899 upgrade to its Pro Max retrofit flight displays, intended for Part 23 aircraft with gross weights upward of 6000 lb. Garmin G1000 Garmin SVS has been an optional feature of the popular G1000 glass cockpit system since 2008.

Flight Deck

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

These were days before the proliferation of AWOS/ASOS stations and the advent of ADS-B (FIS-B) weather displayed on a tablet in the cockpit. (A Realizing that 63 knots was intended for the airplane at its maximum gross weight, I started backing off on my landing speed when lightly loaded. What's that?)

Airplanes

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The flight data recorder shows the following: Directly before take-off, the gross weight was 328.2 The cockpit voice recorder recorded the sounds of the tail strike warning, followed by the tower controller warning the crew that they’d had a tail strike. tons with 109,100 kg of fuel on board.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

It can hold the extra gross weight. It’s 2,300 pounds, but when you add floats, it will get [bogged] down, so you need an airplane that can [carry] the weight. Power-to-weight ratio is also impressive for a floatplane. This aint right, I said to Clinton as I peered down on him from the cockpit.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But I have maintained 5000 feet at 6000 pounds gross weight,” notes Ross. After squeezing through the landing gear houses I settled into the right seat for our evaluation flights because frankly, this is a complex airplane with a complex cockpit. Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In most ways, the cockpit is conventional, with twin center sticks and a prominent throttle lever on the center console. Max Gross Weight: 1,320 lbs. Empty Weight: 840 lbs. Flight Design can will the F2 with a GTN 650 in place of the 175, though Gutmann says hes also looking into using the Garmin GNX 375 GPS/transponder.

Rudder