Pilot Institute
JULY 11, 2025
Why don’t they use Indicated Airspeed just like the pilots who fly slower aircraft? Key Takeaways Mach number is a dimensionless ratio of true airspeed to local speed of sound. When you reach around 36,000 feet (11,000 m) near the tropopause, the temperature stabilizes at around -56.5 °C. Here’s why.
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. These details should be revealed in subsequent reports.
Flight Training Central
MARCH 3, 2025
As the airspeed slows into the white arc, extend the wing flaps. When the airplane is stabilized in the approach attitude and speed, begin to smoothly and slowly bring the nose up to an attitude which will cause a stall. The main factors which determine the angle of attack of a wing are, airspeed, weight, and load factor.
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! This reduced the amount of airspeed I could convert to rate of climb. The ice was simultaneously adding weight while destroying the shape of the wing and stabilizer air foils.
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
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. The Boeings fuselage was nearly 300 feet long, while Overture’s is 200. Fighters, which use supersonic speed briefly, if at all, look different.)
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