Air Facts

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

They arent just a list of priorities in an emergency, they also neatly sum up the different roles a pilot must play, roles that used to be divided very specifically on the flight deck of an airliner. I concentrated as never before, and the airplane tracked true as the altimeter hand crawled upward. Then a strange thing happened.

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Pilot in Command Pilot Approach Airplanes 95

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 25, 2024

Every airline/operator must establish a Continuous Airworthiness Maintenance Program (CAMP). A: ALTIMETER/PILOT STATIC INSPECTION (FAR 91.411) If flying under IFR, an aircraft’s static system, altimeter and automatic Mode C altitude-reporting system must be inspected within the preceding 24 calendar months.

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Annual Inspection VOR Instrument Flight Rules Altimeter 63

iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Get the watch app here. Altimeter+ Display an altimeter flight instrument on your watch. Get the watch app here. Plane Finder This app is perfect for real-time tracking of airline flights and includes stats on arrival and departure information.

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Pilot Altimeter Weather NOTAMs 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The six-pack consists of: Airspeed Indicator (ASI) Attitude Indicator (AI) Altimeter Turn Coordinator (TC) Heading Indicator (HI) Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) Along with the six-pack, we also have an RPM gauge, which shows the engine’s working speed. Most modern jets have glass cockpits if you plan to fly commercially at the airlines.

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Cockpit Pilot Weather Primary Flight Display 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

When thinking of ways to display your mastery of flight, most of us dream about buttery-smooth landings, or maybe maneuvers flown so precisely that the altimeter needles might as well have been just painted on. As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet.

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Rudder Runway Altimeter Pilot 78

Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

That big day finally arrives, and not being able to contain yourself for much longer, you decide to bite the bullet and fly down via the airlines. The only thing remaining now is to get all the funds put together and find a way out to retrieve your new “pride and joy.” That’s a big difference from standard isn’t it?

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Density Altitude Ceiling Runway Weather 98

Air Facts

JULY 19, 2024

Before you realized it, the altimeter had wound itself well past the initial ceiling you had mentally calculated in your preflight planning, and now you found yourself squarely inside Class B airspace – OUCH! What to do if you inadvertently fly into Class B airspace? Consider the NASA ASRS. It has proved a total success for many years.

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Altimeter Pilot Approach Ceiling 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

When thinking of ways to display your mastery of flight, most of us dream about buttery-smooth landings, or maybe maneuvers flown so precisely that the altimeter needles might as well have been just painted on. As an airline first officer for the better part of the past 16 years, I didn’t do much with brakes on the jet.

Rudder 52

Rudder Runway Altimeter Pilot 52

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. Procedures may differ on other aircraft and at other airlines. The Honeywell SI-800 Airspeed/Mach Indicator has been a standard instrument on the Boeing 737, 747, 757, and 767 for decades. Some terminology is modified for clarity.

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Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed Knot Altimeter 52

AeroSavvy

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A flight crew prepares a Boeing 767 for flight Every airline develops its own preflight procedures. Captain, first officer, and international relief officer preflight task assignments are different at every airline. Airlines are moving toward electronic maintenance logbooks. Every airline develops its own preflight flows.

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Flight Deck Clearance Runway Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

You’ll always find a steady stream of airliners queued up for departure and arrival. Due to its high elevation, Denver’s Class B airspace extends up to 12,000 feet MSL to give airliners room to descend. You don’t want an incorrect altimeter setting to cause an airspace incursion.

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Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 52

AeroSavvy

JANUARY 16, 2024

Airline dispatchers read and speak fluent METAR. There are times when a METAR will indicate a takeoff or landing cannot be safely made. Pilots often “refresh” METARs when approaching an airport with poor weather to monitor trends and have the most current decision-making information available.

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Weather Ceiling Knot Visual Flight Rules 52

Fear of Landing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Lola was among the first female commercial pilots, breaking barriers in aviation when airliners were almost exclusively male territory. Lola went on to become a commercial airline transport pilot, flight instructor, SCUBA divemaster, and an award-winning author and photographer. I might as well chat with the altimeter.

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Weather Knot Pilot Distance Measuring Equipment 97

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

That attitude, making the most of the systems that remain, is the key to dealing with in-flight emergencies in jet airliners, military jets, and especially our piston-powered ma-chines down here in GA land. Just like the airline glass cockpits, this is called systems integration.

Cockpit 101

Cockpit Pilot Transponder Ceiling 101