Density Altitude Groundspeed Weather 
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
Key Takeaways The E6B is a mechanical slide rule that helps pilots make calculations useful for flight planning Use the slide rule side to calculate time, speed, fuel, and air density calculations. Learn how to use the wind side to find groundspeed and wind correction angles. Be careful interpreting the scales. Thats not all.
Air Facts
AUGUST 5, 2024
Outside of the marine layer that incessantly taunts the coastal areas, back home your experiences with density altitude are minimal. Following a check of the weather, NOTAMS and TFR’s, you are confronted with some decisions to make. The weather is VMC but it’s hot, and the density altitude is really creeping up there.
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iPad Pilot News
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Stratus Insight Appareo relaunched this app in 2020 with a host of flight planning and weather tools, but the most useful feature for student pilots is the speech-to-text option for radio communications. It’s a great way to determine groundspeed, density altitude and many other crucial performance calculations.
iPad Pilot News
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Stratus Insight Appareo relaunched this app in 2020 with a host of flight planning and weather tools, but the most useful feature for student pilots is the speech-to-text option for radio communications. It’s a great way to determine groundspeed, density altitude and many other crucial performance calculations.
Air Facts
MARCH 10, 2025
Winds on the surface, and winds at altitude: both concepts are covered in the nav-log lesson. Isn’t it interesting to know that based partly on measurements from weather balloons, you can predict the way the winds aloft are going to cause your plane to drift as you fly from point to point, and that you can correct for that as you fly?
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