AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

I spent a few months researching aircraft performance and high altitude airport flying techniques. Density Altitude Piston engines, wings, and propellers lose efficiency as they climb to less dense air at higher altitudes. Pressure altitudes were converted to density altitude.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Sectional view also will give you an indication of the possibility of turbulence, by virtue of your departure path’s proximity to higher terrain and how the wind is blowing across those ridges. At airports without published instrument approach/departure procedures, you will need to ensure that you can climb visually to a safe altitude.

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Air Facts

APRIL 17, 2024

As pilots, we are taught density altitude; we are taught to fly with the wind and with the direction of flowing water in the mountains; yet we are left to teach ourselves how to account for our own limitations. Yet I am merely a student, a student pilot and at times a dallying monk. Don’t waste time. Know your attachments.

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Chess In the Air

JULY 4, 2022

Possible causes include: Rotor turbulence, e.g. on wave days. In still air, the climb rate under full power is likely in the range of 3-5 kts given the high density altitude environment at Rifle. This is another great point. Sudden and very powerful surface winds can have various other causes.

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Wind Shear AGL Lift Runway 52

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

However, at 5:36:23 he still had an altitude of 7025 ft MSL, i.e. a normally very “safe” pattern altitude of almost 1500 ft, and prudently began to head toward the east end of the runway. 65 kts IAS given the high density altitude. 16 seconds later, at 5:36:39 the sink rate diminished to 273 fpm.

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

That produced a strange traffic pattern with roller coasters at the corners.)

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