Airlines 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.
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.
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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.
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. The second factor is traffic flow.
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. The second factor is traffic flow.
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.
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).
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