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The Six Pack: Basic Flight Instruments

Pilot Institute

To understand why the six primary instruments look the way they do, you need to have a basic understanding of how they function. The six primary instruments (the six-pack) are the Attitude Indicator (AI), Heading Indicator (HI), Turn Coordinator, Airspeed Indicator, Altimeter, and the Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI).

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“Totally a visibility issue.”

Fear of Landing

A few hours later, the pilot obtained a weather briefing and filed an IFR flight plan before departing Westchester to fly back to Montgomery County. The pilot was instrument rated and the flight was on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan: that is, they did not have to stay visual for the flight.