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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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 13, 2024

Key Takeaways The Cirrus SR22 has evolved significantly since its certification in 2000, introducing key innovations like the Avidyne Entegra glass cockpit in 2003 and the turbocharged SR22 Turbo in 2006, which have set new standards in general aviation. This article breaks down its top features, performance stats, and innovative technology.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? This 172 had a flap extension speed of 85 knots, and my old Cessna 172’s limit was 100 mph, or 87 knots. I had a total knee replacement. These discrepancies helped me get my head back in the game.

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Vintage Aviation News

JULY 22, 2024

This new jet received the Air Force designation YF-96A and first flew on June 3rd, 1950. USAF photo] The YF-96A was powered by the Wright YJ65-W-1 turbojet, which required Republic to deepen the F-84 fuselage by 7 inches and make certain changes around the cockpit/canopy area. It was the Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 10, 2024

It uses a propulsion system comprising propellers or jet engines to navigate at a certain set speed limit. Holding Positions and Their Meanings Another thing to be aware of from the cockpit is the holding positions. The pilot maneuvers the plane with a 7% thrust paving the way for a 30-knot speed.

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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. I can assure you that the right engine is indeed running and is spinning at about 15,000 rpm while consuming jet fuel at 3,500 pounds per hour.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As briefed, we launched and headed to and entered one of our low-level training routes to fly tactical formation (below) at 500 feet AGL and 480 knots. As we neared MacDill, I maintained 300 knots as I let down to 1,500 AGL, which is the pattern airspeed and altitude at MacDill.

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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. The windsock promised that getting the little yellow bird into the air would be a white-knuckle affair.

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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. However, the real focus of this maneuver is avoiding situations that might place the jet anywhere near stall speed.

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It involves two jets operating on behalf of Delta, which had a serious incident at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). Fortunately there were no serious injuries, though a flight attendant on the regional jet sustained a minor injury. The pictures of the damage to the CRJ-900 are kind of wild.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

THE RED AND WHITE JET WENT BY WITHOUT A SOUND. The cockpit side panels came from the first production F-104A that crashed in 1956. Well, I was indicating 210 knots when I ejected and on my way out I was counting the rivets on the canopy bow. It could not be made official because of a failed FAI camera. IMPOSSIBLE.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

Though it’s not as overtly revolutionary as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) or Safe Return enabled by Garmin Autoland on Cirrus’ SF50 Vision Jet, the reimagined flight deck in the new SR G7 and other improvements make a more immediate impact—because pilots benefit from them on every flight, from the moment you press the start button.

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iPad Pilot News

JUNE 14, 2024

Eventually, the FAA’s Flight Technology group acknowledged the benefits of flying with datalink weather in the cockpit and released Advisory Circular 00-63A in 2014. For example, a pilot of a light twin aircraft, flying at a medium altitude with a tailwind could easily have a groundspeed in excess of 200 knots.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

After we decided this, we heard a Challenger jet announce “Taxiing to 26 for takeoff”. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call. This near miss was avoided only by the jet taking off immediately in front of him. He tried again, with no reply.

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Jetwhine

JULY 1, 2024

If the co-pilot was lucky, the captain might let them work the radios and help with a few navigational duties, but the phrase “Gear up and Shut up” was considered a normal cockpit environment. This finding highlighted the role of communication, decision-making, and leadership in cockpit behavior and the resulting accidents.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Canadair CL-41 Tutor, or CL-41, was a jet trainer designed by the Canadian Aircraft manufacturer Canadair that served the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1963 to 2000, and remained an inseparable part of the RCAF and the Canadian armed forces until its retirement and replacement with the CT-155 Hawk.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

They took 122,702 litres of Jet-Fuel A-1 at Malpensa. About 40 seconds later, when the aircraft was travelling 153 knots, a pitch-up command was recorded. Five seconds later, at 166 knots and a pitch of 8.2°, tail strike indicators 1 and 2 were activated. The Boeing 777 became airborne at 180 knots.

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Adventures of Cap'n Aux

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Their “ juris diction ” is the the smallest in the world: the airline cockpit. While they have no powers to arrest, they are trained to use deadly force to protect the cockpit from invasion at all cost. High Winds, Cool Lights Returning from LHR recently, we flew into the core of a jet stream. Signing Off!

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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. 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. We had to get on the ground ASAP!

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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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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. “Coming back around, I’m usually at about 60 knots. 2B Fighter, a Bulldog Seems Logical Storo enjoyed a long career with FedEx, first flying Falcon jets, then Boeing 727s, and finally DC-10s before retiring in 2004.

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Irwin’s low time in the jet was not uncommon among the four United States Air Force pilots that set world records in the Starfighter in 1958: all had less than 40 hours in type. The jet he flew was the first pre-production YF-104 USAF #55-2969. On December 12, 1957, Maj.

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