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The Pitot-Static System: How It Works

Pilot Institute

” The answers come from a clever little setup on your airplane: a metal tube sticking into the airstream and a tiny hole on the fuselage. These two simple features power three of the most important cockpit instruments. It helps measure how fast the airplane is going by measuring the air pressure. Cool, right?

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

That is consistent with this accident, in that witnesses reported seeing the airplane descending with both wings folded up before impact. The pilot of the accident airplane being a physician has rekindled a lurid stereotypical expression involving V-tail Bonanzas. It’s an airplane that has to be flown with care in IMC.

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

That is consistent with this accident, in that witnesses reported seeing the airplane descending with both wings folded up before impact. The pilot of the accident airplane being a physician has rekindled a lurid stereotypical expression involving V-tail Bonanzas. It’s an airplane that has to be flown with care in IMC.

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The Different Types of Spatial Disorientation

Pilot Institute

But in an airplane, especially in low visibility, you can’t rely on those usual reference points. The movement of the airplane can confuse your body’s senses, making it hard to tell which way you’re going. When you level the airplane, it feels like you’re turning the other way, making you want to lean back into the original turn.

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Unstable approaches

Professional Pilot

It is based on the pilot’s judgment of certain visual clues, and depends on the maintenance of a constant final descent airspeed and configuration. The destination is a couple thousand feet above sea level, with an RNAV approach that depicts a higher-than-normal descent gradient to a down-sloping runway. The ceiling is 800 ft overcast.

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The 8 Types of Illusions Explained – ICEFLAGS

Pilot Institute

This false sensation can prompt you to push the aircraft’s nose down, potentially initiating a descent. You might think another airplane is moving when it’s not, or you might misinterpret its speed and direction. This deadly descent is what we call a graveyard spiral. However, you’re not climbing – your altitude hasn’t changed.

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What is the Pitot-Static System and How Does it Work?

Northstar VFR

As the airplane climbs in altitude, the static pressure decreases. The indication given is a rate of climb or descent in feet per minute (fpm). There is a diaphragm located inside the instrument and is connected to the static line. inches of mercury. The opposite happens as the plane descends.