Pilot Institute

JULY 4, 2025

Key Takeaways TCAS involves aircraft transponders interrogating each other to predict a collision course. By the 1970s, attention turned to using the signals from transponders to create a collision avoidance system. Transponders were devices that had become common on many aircraft to make them appear on ATC radar.

Transponder

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) differentiates an accident from an incident by imposing a threshold of aircraft damage set at $1 million. Air taxi operations, executive jets, helicopters, and general aviation activities have been excluded in the interests of concision. No hay heridos.

Runway

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The aerials are in a position that provides a threshold crossing height of 50ft. It consists of lights that start at the landing threshold and extend into the approach area. Marker Beacons These days, the ILS is generally paired with a DME (Distance Measuring Equipment). While the other beam transmits slightly below.

Knot

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Haas We All Fly exhibit aimed at highlighting and celebrating General Aviation. I am genuinely pleased by the idea of this exhibit because the general public seems generally oblivious to the existence and role of General Aviation. We All Fly A new gallery for the NASM is the Thomas W. Cockpit of a DC-7.

Airplanes