Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

But how to do so when you’ve known the airplane since its early development years, as I have? She warned me ahead of time that the airplane wouldn’t appear different from the outside but to expect something truly different inside. The logic is, if you can enter the airplane with the key fob, you can start the engine.

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Pilot Airplanes Approach Jet 111

Flight Training Central

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Large turbine engine powered airplanes are not permitted to operate below the Class B airspace when en route to or from the primary airport within the airspace. Class B Speed Limitations Aircraft flying within the Class B airspace may fly at an indicated airspeed of up to 250 knots.

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Indicated Airspeed Airspace Classes Clearance Pilot in Command 52

Flight Training Central

MARCH 18, 2024

indicated airspeed, the speed limit for operations below 10,000′ MSL. indicated airspeed. You’ll typically see lots of airline traffic in Class B airspace, usually heaviest around pushes as an airline lands or departs many of its airplanes close together. You may not exceed 200 kts.

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AGL Indicated Airspeed Clearance Transponder 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Thats your true airspeed. Calibrated airspeed is not the same as indicated airspeed. However, the difference is a few knots for general aviation airspeeds and altitudes. For example, if its 120, look for the number 12 on the scale. Read the corresponding number on the outer scale.

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Groundspeed True Airspeed Density Altitude Knot 52

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

A perfectly good airplane with everything operating as expected. What specific indicated airspeed will be flown/adhered to during the circling maneuver? The HAA (height above airport) is one that by design is biased on operational necessities along with the assumptions of four very salient and important cornerstones.

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Approach AGL Descent Runway 97

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There’s a reason why basic airplane attitude instrument flying comes first in any Instrument curriculum – it’s the foundation for everything else you’ll do in IFR flying. As the complete instrument pilot, you should be able to maintain heading, altitude, and airspeed at speeds ranging from cruise to approach.

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Descent Altimeter Airplanes Approach 52

AV Web

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A lot of reports come from air carrier pilots, which makes sense because they fly the most, but there are plenty of GA airplanes in the mix as well. One pilot got such warning after ATC vectored the airplane onto a charted segment 700 feet below the charted altitude for that segment. Plus controllers and mechanics.

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Aeronautical Information Manual Airplanes Pilot Indicated Airspeed 57

Pilot Institute

MAY 9, 2024

The higher speed creates extra lift, causing the airplane to bank further into the turn. The pilot’s job is to prevent the airplane from banking too quickly or too far. In our example, the right wing has more lift, and thus more drag, than the left wing as the airplane rolls. As the aircraft pitches up, the airspeed drops.

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Rudder Lift Aileron Drag 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Class C airports’ speed limits require aircraft within 4 Nautical Miles (NM) of the primary airport and below 2500 feet to maintain an Indicated Airspeed (IAS) of 200 knots or less. ATC offers IFR and VFR aircraft separation services in Class C.

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Clearance Transponder Knot Indicated Airspeed 52

Photographic Logbook

JULY 11, 2024

Caught in series of up and down drafts, the autopilot pitched the Warrior aggressively to maintain altitude and the indicated airspeed trended too high in each updraft. Repositioning Flight When we arrived at Rochester in the rain, it appeared that the best plan was to move the airplane the following day. I logged about 0.7

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Ceiling Approach Weather Runway 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

So, on days when we are taking off or landing at an airfield with low air density, we require faster true airspeeds to generate the required lift. This increased true airspeed, along with other factors increases takeoff and landing distances. High-density altitude, on the other hand, indicates thin air.

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Density Altitude Pilot True Airspeed Lift 52

Fear of Landing

JANUARY 24, 2025

airspeed 85 [kt indicated airspeed] KIAS fuel quantity check fuel selector valve fuller tank mixture rich auxiliary fuel pump on for 3-5 seconds with throttle open; then off ignition switch both (or start if propeller is stopped) throttle: advance slowly.

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Runway Pilot Drag Indicated Airspeed 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. The sole probable cause was the pilot’s ‘improper aerobatic maneuver…that exceeded the airplane’s design limits. The pilot died instantly. After crossing U.S.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 97

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. The sole probable cause was the pilot’s ‘improper aerobatic maneuver…that exceeded the airplane’s design limits. The pilot died instantly. After crossing U.S.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 96

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Naturally, my first officer and I got a good laugh from this as our 757 was cruising along effortlessly at about 300 knots indicated airspeed, and was not yawing towards the supposedly dead engine. I had also forgotten that today, everyone is an authority on things they know nothing about, such as airplanes.

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Indicated Airspeed Air Traffic Control Airplanes Descent 98

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.

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General Aviation Pilot Approach Airplanes 98

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 15, 2024

As part of your preflight preparation, you should always consult the POH/AFM performance charts to determine the airplane performance is acceptable for a safe takeoff and climb for the conditions and location. Once the brakes are released as the airplane accelerates, adjust the airplane’s pitch to attain minimum drag and maximum acceleration.

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Density Altitude Indicated Airspeed Lift Runway 52

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. Without knowing the horizontal wind direction and speed at this point it is impossible to say what his indicated airspeed was. His ground speed had dropped to 75 kt so he also had less kinetic energy reserve.

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52

Air Facts

MARCH 10, 2025

Their peripheral vision and hand-eye coordination barely work for pickleball, let alone landing an airplane.” You needed some familiarity with performance charts for the written test, but it’s during the nav log lesson that you must read and understand the performance charts of the airplane you’re actually flying.

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Checkride Density Altitude Calibrated Airspeed True Airspeed 52