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Going Below Minimums

AV Web

Of course, AWOS is one-minute weather and when conditions are changing, the ATIS can be updated, but its unlikely to be updated often enough to match a fast-moving system. However the indicated airspeed at which you circle is not the same as the true airspeed , and of course the difference increases with altitude.

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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

Take into consideration that weather reporting, and the dissemination of these reports to pilots, was not as accurate then as it is now. In just six months I would reflect on my training and agonize over how inadequately I had been prepared for the real world of instrument flying, which is weather.

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Go-Around Required

Plane and Pilot

After a shallow turn from downwind, the Bonanza was positioned on base at a proper altitude and airspeed and with a constant descent rate. NTSB weather data analysis determined the wind at 7,500 feet (about 700 feet above the runway) was from 210 degrees at 17 knots—a healthy tailwind for base leg.

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Air pressure and density

Professional Pilot

But like mastering complex aircraft systems, understanding density is essential for understanding the weather and aircraft operation. Differences in ambient temperature and pressure drive weather patterns and determine actual aircraft performance relative to stated figures. This is the concept of buoyancy and instability in a nutshell.

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Let’s Play it Safe

Plane and Pilot

Jet pilots are all aware that up in the flight levels, they thrive on the increased true airspeed that the low atmospheric density produces. Up in the flight levels, jets fly at relatively low indicated airspeed and still cruise at 7-8 miles per minute. It should not have been a surprise, but it was. Glad the runway was so long.

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E6B Made Easy: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide

Pilot Institute

Thats your true airspeed. Calibrated airspeed is not the same as indicated airspeed. However, the difference is a few knots for general aviation airspeeds and altitudes. The weather station reports wind from 030 degrees at 20 knots. Your true airspeed is 100 knots.

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We Fly: CubCrafters NXCub

Flying Magazine

inch display, GTR 20 comm, GTX 345R transponder, G5 attitude indicator, GDL 84 ADS-B package, Garmin dual-axis autopilot, and stereo intercom. The autopilot includes a ā€œlevelā€ feature, so should things start going wrong due to weather and/or pilot disorientation, one push brings the aircraft into level flight.