Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Learn how to use the wind side to find groundspeed and wind correction angles. Your groundspeed (which will differ from your airspeed as the wind pushes you around). The rear has the wind side for calculating wind correction angles and groundspeed. That means itll take 24 minutes to fly 40 miles at 100 knots.

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Groundspeed True Airspeed Density Altitude Knot 52

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

The alert will only sound once every 60 seconds and is automatically disabled if groundspeed is less than 40 knots. The alert is only triggered when groundspeed is above 40 knots or the connected device does not have a GPS fix. IN-FLIGHT ALERTS 500 AGL Alerts – Alerts when descending through 500 ft.

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AGL Runway Groundspeed Descent 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Preparing the cockpit and cabin. Too little groundspeed, and you may turn too soon, making a mess of the hold. For tailwind on the outbound leg, subtract 1 second per knot of tailwind component. For a headwind on the outbound leg, add 1 second per knot of headwind component. The wind is 050° at 25 knots.

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Airplanes Crosswind Approach Knot 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

With a variable-pitch propeller, the pilot can adjust the propeller’s pitch using a control in the cockpit. By the time the aircraft decelerates below roughly 80 knots, the pilot moves the reverser controls to the idle reverse position. At low groundspeeds, the air flowing through the engine is much less than at high speeds.

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Thrust Blade Angle Runway Pilot 52

Air

MAY 21, 2025

Drawbacks: In cruise, a headwind reduces your groundspeed , meaning your journey will take longer and consume more fuel. It increases your groundspeed , shortening your flight time and saving fuel. It increases your groundspeed , shortening your flight time and saving fuel. This is a handy in-cockpit estimation technique.

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Crosswind Wind Shear Groundspeed Flight Computer 52

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 14, 2024

Eventually, the FAA’s Flight Technology group acknowledged the benefits of flying with datalink weather in the cockpit and released Advisory Circular 00-63A in 2014. For example, a pilot of a light twin aircraft, flying at a medium altitude with a tailwind could easily have a groundspeed in excess of 200 knots.

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Weather AGL Flight Deck Pilot 59

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. The plane was high and very fast, crossing the airport boundary at 200 feet and 165 knots groundspeed.

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Knot Runway Pilot Groundspeed 93