Airline True Airspeed Weather 
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.
Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. These were divided into two main categories, prior maneuvering and weather upset. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.
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Plane and Pilot
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
After the military, he joined Hughes Airwest as an airline pilot and settled down with his wife and baby in Boulder City. The airline merged with Republic, then Northwest, and finally Delta. These were divided into two main categories, prior maneuvering and weather upset. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.
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.
Air Facts
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
It was interesting and a lot of fun for a lot of reasons, with most of them having to do with not flying a jet and not being restricted by ATC and all the regulatory stuff that makes an airline pilot feel like he’s roped and tied. That’s why so many airline pilots are private pilots too and own airplanes.
AV Web
OCTOBER 6, 2024
The ultimate goal is feeling safe flying IFR trips – some short, some long – in reasonable weather. Somerset instructor Karl Bearnarth, who “moonlights” as an airline pilot, drew the short straw. The immediate goal was to first get comfortable in the left seat again, then work toward an instrument proficiency check (IPC).
Professional Pilot
MAY 13, 2024
The most deleterious effects happened to commercial airlines as countries closed their borders to halt the spread of the virus. Airlines scrapped most of their schedules as they sought to preserve cash. Revenge travel perhaps explains why credit card debt is at an all-time high for the middle-class, and yet airline seats are full.
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