Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

We studied all of our options going into New York via general aviation. His was to watch for traffic, take pictures, and monitor that my altimeter stayed at 1,300 feet msl. With a lot of enthusiasm and the reassuring help of ForeFlight, we discovered that it wasn’t only doable but looked like a lot of fun.

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Clearance Approach Knot Altimeter 52

AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airspeed indicators need air from a pitot tube and static air from a static port Small general aviation aircraft have airspeed indicators with air hoses connected directly to the pitot and static sources. Ram air from a pitot tube and static (undisturbed) outside air from a static port, usually a hole on the side of the fuselage.

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Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed Knot Altimeter 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 24, 2024

Keeping jet traffic safe alongside slower general aviation aircraft is harder still. That’s a considerable detour for small general aviation aircraft. You don’t want an incorrect altimeter setting to cause an airspace incursion. Managing so many aircraft is challenging. Here’s how to bypass the Bravo.

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Clearance Ceiling Airspace Classes Transponder 52

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Altimeter+ Calculates the altitude of your current location via GPS, or from the built-in barometer included on newer iPhones and iPads.Offers Apple Watch app. Airbus FlySmart Airbus offers a collection of apps for pilots to assistwith performance planning, maintenance and other operational guidance when flying these airplanes.

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Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes 91

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In most general aviation aircraft, we tend to initiate the flare at 10 feet. But this can be hard to judge when the altimeter is so sensitive. Flare You will transition into the flare as you cross the threshold and get closer to the ground. But how do I know exactly when to flare? Good question.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It’s as close to “evasive action” as you can get while flying a general aviation aircraft. Steep turns should be one of the most fun maneuvers pilots learn. But for many pilots, flying coordinated turns while keeping altitude and speed steady is hard enough.

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Lift Aileron Drag Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” The average age of the current general aviation fleet is somewhere between 35 and 50 years. As I considered this conundrum one evening, the movie Apollo 13 appeared on the screen.

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Cockpit Transponder Pilot Ceiling 101

Pilot Institute

AUGUST 2, 2024

One of the leading causes of fatal general aviation accidents is the loss of aircraft control. Increasing altitude – read from your altimeter. Decreasing altitude – read from your altimeter. Decreasing altitude – read from your altimeter. Completely disoriented and unsure of which way is up.

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Altimeter Descent Turbulence Lift 52

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Catalina Airport is open to general aviation from 08:00 to 17:00. When I saw the altimeter start to climb I raised the landing gear and let out the breath I’d apparently been holding. However, just as the altimeter started to climb, the Baron faltered. Needless to say, we lost. Dinner was excellent.”

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Runway Altimeter Pilot Lift 52

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

However, Earhart encountered bad weather, including heavy icing and fog, and suffered mechanical failures in the form of a failed altimeter, a fuel leak, and a damaged exhaust manifold. Another general aviation design in the form of the Mignet HM.14

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Airplanes Pilot Ceiling Altimeter 98

Photographic Logbook

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Cherokee Four Eight One, Allentown Approach, altimeter 30.48, remain at or above 3,500 feet." A multilayered example of cluelessness, the episode was not a shining moment for general aviation. Where's Waldo Slatington? Was the airport before or after that ridge?

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Runway Airplanes Approach Pilot 52