Airplanes Ground Effect Indicated Airspeed 
Air Facts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure). An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect.
Chess In the Air
JUNE 24, 2022
This is a hard one to gain insight from other than this: Some atmospheric events are bigger than our plastic airplanes. His ground speed had dropped to 75 kt so he also had less kinetic energy reserve. Without knowing the horizontal wind direction and speed at this point it is impossible to say what his indicated airspeed was.
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