Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

” 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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Pitot Tube Altimeter Descent Airplanes 98

Northstar VFR

JUNE 30, 2024

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.

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Pitot Tube Altimeter Instrument Meteorological Conditions Descent 73

Northstar VFR

JANUARY 4, 2023

by Gustin Robinson, FAA CFI-I ASEL Flying under instrument meteorological conditions keeps even a good pilot on their toes. But now, while flying in low visibility and overcast cloud layers, you have to rely on your instrumentation more than ever before and keep your eyes inside the airplane.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Ceiling Approach Weather 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

We spent some time in instrument meteorological conditions over Vermont. Since we lost our LPV approaches due to obstructions along the final approach course, the downgraded LNAV minimum descent altitude for the approach to runway 28 was 558 feet above the ground. Sometimes I have good luck switching to runway 10." "If

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

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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Runway Instrument Meteorological Conditions Approach Airplanes 52

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

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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Tail Instrument Meteorological Conditions Knot Groundspeed 105

AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

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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Tail Instrument Meteorological Conditions Knot Groundspeed 98