Professional Pilot

JULY 7, 2025

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.

Density Altitude

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This article will teach you ways to deal with weather, routes, altitude choices, and using helpful tools when flying in poor visibility. Key Takeaways Creating an IFR flight plan requires looking at weather patterns, fuel requirements, and alternate airports. You should start with these weather resources: METARs : Current conditions.

Flight Plan

Plane and Pilot

JULY 10, 2025

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. If the data is close, and the margins are thin, just don’t go.

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

Postaccident examination of the engine revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunction or failure that would have precluded normal operation, however, the weather conditions at the time of the accident were conducive to the formation of serious carburetor icing at idle power. The weather conditions cleared about an hour after the accident.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Flying Magazine

JUNE 30, 2025

The autopilot includes a “level” feature, so should things start going wrong due to weather and/or pilot disorientation, one push brings the aircraft into level flight. We found a flaps up, power-off stall speed of 47 mph indicated airspeed, and full-flap stall speed of 42 mph indicated.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

MARCH 10, 2025

Isn’t it interesting to know that based partly on measurements from weather balloons, you can predict the way the winds aloft are going to cause your plane to drift as you fly from point to point, and that you can correct for that as you fly? Winds on the surface, and winds at altitude: both concepts are covered in the nav-log lesson.

Checkride

Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Before you become a commercial pilot, it’s important to know how to obtain a good weather briefing. Flying in appropriate weather helps make your flight enjoyable and keeps your passengers safe. It includes weather trends. Many pilots reference the weather briefings in their PIREPs.

Weather

WayMan

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Unlike other airspeed measures, IAS accounts for air density and pressure changes, making it a dependable metric for low-altitude operations, takeoffs, and landings. How Indicated Airspeed Differs From Other Airspeeds True Airspeed (TAS) : Reflects the actual speed of the aircraft through the air, adjusted for altitude and temperature.

Indicated Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It was easy enough to avoid Oakland and San Francisco Terminal Control Areas, now Class B, but Bay Area weather was completely different from New England. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.” On the East Coast, the ocean is east, but on the West Coast, it is west.

Knot

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Avtech proFLIGHT This app is a high-quality weather tool for the professional flight crew. ProFLIGHT uses the actual flight route and time combined with the Met Office’s Global 10KM Weather model to produce a tailored weather forecast based on the most up to date information.

Weather

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It was easy enough to avoid Oakland and San Francisco Terminal Control Areas, now Class B, but Bay Area weather was completely different from New England. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.” On the East Coast, the ocean is east, but on the West Coast, it is west.

Knot

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

ICAO minima for circling approaches is much higher than that stipulated in the FARs so consider higher weather minima. We also benefit from the latest weather updates. A proactive policy may very well be to prohibit night circling approaches Weather updates? Particular attention to true airspeed vs. turn radius.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

Post-accident examination of the engine revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunction or failure that would have precluded normal operation, however, the weather conditions at the time of the accident were conducive to the formation of serious carburetor icing at idle power. The weather conditions cleared about an hour after the accident.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot's Life Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Aircraft contain all kinds of wonderous indicators and instruments to measure velocity, altitude, weather conditions, etc. However, the single most important aircraft instrument is probably the airspeed indicator. True airspeed (TAS) is the difference between the indicated airspeed and actual speed.

Pitot Tube

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

So there I am circling in clear weather with a frown on my face. The weather was good with scattered cumulus floating around. axied about a thousand miles to FACTS the General Aviation parking area where I got gas and looked over the weather. My true airspeed, 68% power, 6,500 feet, was 161 mph. Lots of us do.

Weather

AV Web

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The ultimate goal is feeling safe flying IFR trips – some short, some long – in reasonable weather. Gus had scribbled down a list of mostly minor squawks, but he was thrilled with the true airspeed readouts he saw on the hour-plus hop to SMQ. He was slightly shocked when someone actually…bought it.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

When flying through a high-pressure weather system, the same volume of air contains more molecules. The opposite is true for low-pressure weather systems. Obtain current weather data from an ATIS or local weather station for accurate calculations. As the atmospheric pressure changes, so does air density.

Density Altitude

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

AIM 5-3-3 ) Change in the average true airspeed (at cruising altitude) when it varies by 5 percent or 10 knots (whichever is greater) from that filed in the flight plan. ( What’s the difference between VFR, MVFR, IFR, and LIFR weather? These four categories of flight classify four separate weather conditions.

Instrument Flight Rules

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Transatlantic routes While safety is still the primary concern for pilots, today’s challenges are not so much the vastness and weather on this ocean, but traffic density and regulatory compliance. There are 2 main factors that influence the north Atlantic route structure – weather and traffic demand. MHz (NAT air-to-air).

Jet

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Transatlantic routes While safety is still the primary concern for pilots, today’s challenges are not so much the vastness and weather on this ocean, but traffic density and regulatory compliance. There are 2 main factors that influence the north Atlantic route structure – weather and traffic demand. MHz (NAT air-to-air).

Jet

Inflight Pilot Training

MAY 30, 2025

With the right apps, pilots can check weather, plan routes, improve radio communications, log flights, simulate flying scenarios, and even listen in on real-time ATC traffic. Best Apps for Aviation Weather 1. Best All-In-One Pilot App 4. ForeFlight Overview : ForeFlight is the most comprehensive EFB on the market.

Pilot

Universal Weather

JANUARY 24, 2025

or greater and/or max cruising true airspeed (TAS) greater than 250 knots (kts). Aircraft manufactured on or after 01-JAN-2020 and has an MTOW exceeding 12,566 lbs (5,700 kgs) or having a maximum cruising true airspeed (TAS) greater than 250 knots must have ADS-B (Out) 1090 MHz applicable to RTCA DO-260B.

True Airspeed

Universal Weather

APRIL 9, 2024

or greater and/or max cruising true airspeed (TAS) greater than 250 knots (kts). Aircraft manufactured on or after 01-JAN-2020 and has an MTOW exceeding 12,566 lbs (5,700 kgs) or having a maximum cruising true airspeed (TAS) greater than 250 knots must have ADS-B (Out) 1090 MHz applicable to RTCA DO-260B.

True Airspeed

Air

MAY 21, 2025

DC = arctan(TAS/Vc) Where TAS is the True Airspeed. Learn Your Reports: Get thoroughly familiar with interpreting METARs, TAFs, and other weather products. . – A negative value indicates tailwind. Drift Correction Angle (DC), which is applied to correct the crosswind and maintain the trajectory.

Crosswind

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Synthetic and enhanced flight vision systems (SVS ans EFVS, respectively) come standard, and options include controller-pilot data link communication (CPDLC), MultiScan weather radar, and XM graphical weather. SpaceX’s Starlink Internet capability is expected in the future.

Jet

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Synthetic and enhanced flight vision systems (SVS ans EFVS, respectively) come standard, and options include controller-pilot data link communication (CPDLC), MultiScan weather radar, and XM graphical weather. SpaceX’s Starlink Internet capability is expected in the future.

Jet

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Weather, field conditions, obstacles, and many other elements greatly affect short field operations. Your aircraft will fly at a faster true airspeed at higher density altitudes. This allows them to safely operate into and out of these tight runways. Performing short field landings requires careful consideration.

Weight-Shift-Control

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These were divided into two main categories, prior maneuvering and weather upset. In most cases, some type of aerobatics with an increase in airspeed preceded loss of control. They reviewed certification limits, mechanical structure, airspeed instrumentation, and flutter analysis.

True Airspeed

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These were divided into two main categories, prior maneuvering and weather upset. In most cases, some type of aerobatics with an increase in airspeed preceded loss of control. They reviewed certification limits, mechanical structure, airspeed instrumentation, and flutter analysis.

True Airspeed

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

He frequently hosted visiting pilots, providing them with detailed briefings of the area and the weather. The CAPE index, a measure of convective energy and instability, was below 100 joules, indicating a very low probability of severe weather or thunderstorms. Rifle, the location of the accident, was Shmulik’s home airport.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 4, 2025

The rest is just lift, drag, thrust, weather, and navigation. Most of the controllers speak passable English, and generally the weather in the eastern 90 percent of South America is better than the same quantity of acres in the United States. What is your range and true airspeed? Oh, and some money. This will be a factor.

Flight Plan