Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

Pilots avoid vortices by maintaining safe separation and adjusting flight paths. When the aircraft encounters a vortex and its strong enough to induce roll, the pilot counters it by using the ailerons against the roll and tries to fly out of the wake as soon as possible. How Are Wingtip Vortices Formed?

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 9, 2025

Holding procedures often leave many prospective IFR pilots in a cold sweat. Pilots use holds for traffic delays, weather, emergencies, planning, or runway changes. Pilot Planning Nobody likes being put under pressure. Suppose an airport has a complex arrival, or the pilot has not planned sufficiently. In plain English?

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 11, 2025

Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights iPad Pilot News The iPad is an engaging visual tool, but many pilots forget about its many audio uses. Many pilots may not realize that ForeFlight also provides audio alerts with these notifications. Here’s a rundown of what you might hear.

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Air Facts

MAY 5, 2025

It is intended to be a flying lesson , but only for those pilots who read it with learning as a mindset. Take into consideration that weather reporting, and the dissemination of these reports to pilots, was not as accurate then as it is now. Also, Trial by Ice is not just another flying story.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Sometimes, it seems like the pilots can’t see anything all the way down to the ground. Including how it became the most reliable approach for pilots in aviation history. Including how it became the most reliable approach for pilots in aviation history. The ILS is a type of approach pilots use to land. What is an ILS?

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. Further complicating matters was the fact that the plane would be delivered by civilian pilots.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

.” On takeoff and landing, the pilot’s seat is adjusted to the upward limit of travel. However, in cruise flight, the seat is moved as low as possible to get the pilot’s head out of the slipstream as the blasting wind quickly fatigues the pilot. “Coming back around, I’m usually at about 60 knots.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Landing an airplane can be one of the most nerve-wracking tasks for a student pilot. As a pilot, you will need time to master it. A pilot must consider several things before landing. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. Getting an airplane to fly is easy.

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Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

But it was an excellent flying day, so I took wing with a group of WFC pilots for sushi in Massachusetts instead (Westfield-Barnes Airport, KBAF). The pilot of a Cessna Skylane still on the runway responded plaintively. "I Was this a planned maneuver between the pilots? Photo by The Bear. I am clearing as fast as I can."

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Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Even the best of pilots can mess up sometimes. But for new pilots, it can be tough to figure out where it all went wrong. Key Takeaways Start by setting up your approach correctly to ensure you arrive at the threshold perfectly every time. Flying at 60 knots? Pilots select their target airspeed for each approach.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Short field landings are a true test of a pilot’s skill. They are also one of the most feared maneuvers during the private pilot checkride. Whether you’re new to short field landings or a pilot needing a refresher, this essential guide is for you. Feeling overwhelmed by this challenging maneuver?

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AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The instrument provides pilots with a surprising amount of information. Read on to find out how the classic SI-800 works and how pilots use it! V MO on the 767 is between 340-360 knots (depending on aircraft serial number). Digital Data Airspeed The Indicated Airspeed (above 30 knots) is displayed in a digital format.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Bounced landings are something almost every pilot has experience with. Even experienced pilots must remain cautious to prevent bounced landing accidents. The Cessna 172, known for its forgiving nature, can encounter bounced landings if the pilot is not careful. What do you do? The real challenge comes down to how you handle it.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

A soft field landing is a technique pilots use when landing on unpaved surfaces. Why Do Pilots Perform Soft Field Landings? Crowd Source Information The next best resource for information about runway conditions is other pilots. Calculate your landing and takeoff distances using the pilot’s operating handbook (POH).

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 6, 2024

Pilots that do not meet the requirements for a medical certificate can receive special issuances. Pilots can also choose to fly under BasicMed instead of a medical certificate. You can learn more about color vision and medical certificates for color-blind pilots in this article. You can also take the pure tone audiometric test.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The take-off and the en-route climb to the planned cruising altitude of 37,000ft (11,280m) was uneventful, with the first officer as the flying pilot. Haynes asked that Fitch assume control of the engine throttles, by kneeling between the two forward-facing pilot seats.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

Several airports in the vicinity reported wind gusts peaking at 30 knots. kilometers or 4,500 feet agl (25 knots is roughly 12 m/s for reference). READ MORE: Is a Medical Certificate Required for a Private Pilot Check Ride? Most outflow boundaries don’t extend above about 2 kilometers or 6,500 feet agl.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 16, 2025

Although it is referred to as the decision speed, V 1 represents a crucial threshold: any choice to reject the take off must be made before reaching V 1 , so that the stopping is already in progress when it reaches V 1. After V1, the Pilot Flying’s hand should be removed from the thrust levers.

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

On the 15th of October 2023, a private pilot rented a Cessna 172M from Air Gold Coast for a private flight from Gold Coast Airport, Queensland, to Murwilumbah, New South Wales. The pilot continued to take dual and solo flights with the operator; however, on the day of the accident, it had been 121 days since the pilot’s last flight.

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AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Winds were from 290 degrees at 15 knots, gusting to 21 knots. The accident pilot was participating in the 2022 Wayne County (Neb.)

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Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Winter's Airport For pilots in the Northeast, one of the most eagerly anticipated events each year is the freezing of Alton Bay, a narrow, southerly oriented limb off the main body of New Hampshire's expansive Lake Winnipesaukee. Today would be his first landing on the ice as pilot in command. Photo by Ed.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 1, 2024

Air Force pilot and a lifelong aviation enthusiast, I readily volunteered to go along. It could carry a crew of two and four passengers at a cruise speed of 175 knots, or about 200 mph, at a service ceiling of more than 19,000 feet. I was seated directly behind the renowned pilot. It felt like a big rock over my shoulder.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I checked the weather by phone and was assured it would be great CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) with 2-3-knot winds from 090 degrees. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. The plane started to move, and the strut hit me behind the knees, dumping me in the pilot’s seat.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 26, 2024

What matters for VFR proficiency: better landings Air Facts Journal Earlier this year I argued that if IFR pilots wanted to prevent accidents, they should focus on the most boring of skills: basic attitude instrument flying. It’s not just GA pilots who can struggle with airspeed control. Neither one is good.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Student pilots get a free pass, because theyre adorable skittering off runways in Loss of Directional Control (LODC) events that vex the best among us. But assumptions spiraled for this private pilot in a 1953 Bell 47D helicopter (think M.A.S.H) No mention if the Cessna pilot noticed. at Marana, Arizona, on 2021s first day.

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