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The Six Pack: Basic Flight Instruments

Pilot Institute

When you first laid your eyes on the instruments inside an airplane, they probably went wide with a mixture of joy, confusion, and slight apprehension at the thought of having to learn how to read them. The pitot-static system consists of one or more pitot tubes and static ports. vertical speed), and airspeed.