Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These two simple features power three of the most important cockpit instruments. As the name implies, the VSI shows the rate of the aircrafts climb or descent. It shows the rate of climb or descent in feet per minute. This setup is called the pitot-static system. How Does The System Give Inputs To The VSI?

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Pilot Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The flaps on an aircraft are used for controlled descents with slower airspeed during the approach and landing. When landing without flaps, pilots must adjust their techniques to compensate for higher approach speeds, a shallow descent angle, and longer landing distances. What is the purpose of flaps? More aggressive energy management.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. Approach speeds typically range from 80 to 90 knots depending on weight and flap settings, while full flaps are often used to provide the necessary lift during landing.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

Even though synthetic vision might help me perform an emergency descent to a valley that might not be cloud filled, that’s pretty sketchy as a risk-mitigation strategy. Also, from when I lived out West, there was the mountaintop clearance guideline—1,000 feet for every 10 knots of wind, with 30 knots meaning no-go.

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Air Facts

JULY 1, 2024

After all the preliminaries, and in full command of the cockpit, we, my instructor and I, took off on a simulated flight from Teterboro, New Jersey enroute to Norfolk, Virginia (short flight) at 15,000 feet. I put the gear down one dot above the glideslope and let the drag bring the aircraft down at its 550 foot-per-minute descent rate.

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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. We were nearing the LAX airport at 18,000 feet and starting to get busy with the descent into SAN.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Combining the data shown on your cockpit instruments helps you make better judgments. It’s typically measured in knots (nautical miles per hour), with one knot being about 1.15 One example is Indicated Airspeed (IAS), which is the airspeed you read directly from cockpit instruments. miles per hour.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. We can calculate the rate of descent required to achieve a 3° profile. We multiply Vso by 1.3

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Fear of Landing

MARCH 1, 2024

The stall speed is cited in the docket as 53 knots. Whoever was flying that day appears to have intentionally slowed the aircraft to 28 knots. Regardless, the aircraft entered a dangerous descent at 8,000 feet per minute. The Cessna 172S crashed into the ground, destroying the cockpit.

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Fear of Landing

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The wreckage, courtesy of the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport During the initial approach, they arrived at the waypoint WIZOP travelling at about 300 knots ground speed, quite a bit over the chart maximum of 230 knots. Vilnius Tower : Postman one eight delta: wind 170 degrees one five knots, cleared to land runway one niner.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Right after takeoff, you throw a grappling hook at the end of a short rope out of the cockpit. The pilot continued to mush along at 55 knots, passing three open parks that could have served as relatively safe drop locations. Its cool flying. Its connected, along with a safety weak link, to the tail of the airplane.

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Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Wright State University) The original configuration of the Bell Model 68 was an open cockpit all-metal monoplane with fixed landing gear that was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines with thrust deflectors located at the aircraft’s center of gravity.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Pilot 59

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

One benefit of these aerodynamic tweaks is a vibration, or “initial buffet,” that is felt in the seat of the pants and flight controls, about 10-15 knots above stall speed. If the engine does not restart, maintaining the descent and a margin above the critical angle of attack is a better bet than stalling.

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Airplanes Approach Horizontal Stabilizer Pilot 82

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fifteen hundred feet past the end of the runway, a pilot was trapped in the cockpit of an Extra NG. Forty-five minutes after the accident, the pilot was found alive, still pinned upside down in the flooded cockpit. Data shows a constant high-speed descent straight toward the runway. Rescue crews extracted her from the plane.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The weather briefing we had reviewed a half hour earlier promised a 20-knot headwind that would require two fuel stops on the 130-mile trip from our home airport in Kennett, Missouri (KTKX), to Little Rock Air Force Base (KLRF) in Arkansas. As the sun began its descent, we began the final leg of what would end up being a four-hour trek.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

I checked the weather by phone and was assured it would be great CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) with 2-3-knot winds from 090 degrees. I reached into the cockpit instantly and pulled the throttle to idle. It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. The engine sprang to life.

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ABEAM

AUGUST 26, 2023

My son Toby was complaining about a whistling sound from our right cockpit door, and when established in the cruise, the first miles into the Atlantic Ocean, he saw that there was a gap between the door and the airplane fuselage, creating that sound and letting cold air in. after DEVBI with Iceland Radio. So we could continue to Iceland.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

This is consistent with Rick’s report, which referenced 9 knots of wind. Under normal circumstances Shmulik would have had sufficient altitude to delay the landing by several minutes: his glider’s minimum descent rate in still air was just 100 fpm. How Does It Feel in the Cockpit When We Encounter A Microburst?

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. Increasing The Aircraft Speed Small, light, and low-powered aircraft such as the Cessna 172 have a relatively narrow operational speed range ranging from 40 knots up to about 160 knots. This is called having a wing drop.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

One more gadget in the cockpit cannot remedy deficits in skill, judgement, and attitude. This descent used the same technique that (would have) had value in many of the NTSB accidents involving engine failure after takeoff. No math required. Optimum” glide was not the issue here, and a visual AOA indicator would have had no value.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway. Descent check!” Landing on a short field required full flaps and the slowest possible safe airspeed, a couple of knots above stall. That was about 89 knots, as I recall.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The flight then began its descent into Vilnius and passed to the north of the city on a right-hand downwind approach for its landing on runway 19 at Vilnius Airport. However, having descended down the glideslope to 650ft and traveling at 150 knots, the flight data comes to an abrupt stop.

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Final Approach Approach Instrument Landing System Runway 330

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We routinely taxi at 1200 rpm due to the low spray…[we] can cruise at 10 knots” in displacement mode, something a Goose can’t do. Early on a speed restriction of 130 knots was applied as a flutter issue. This was resolved on the kit version and led to cruising at 50% power and 120 knots, which proved to be the Gweduck’s sweet spot.

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