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.

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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.

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Pilot Flight Computer Aeronautical Information Manual Weather 96

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It was easy enough to avoid Oakland and San Francisco Terminal Control Areas, now Class B, but Bay Area weather was completely different from New England. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.” On the East Coast, the ocean is east, but on the West Coast, it is west.

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Knot Weather Density Altitude True Airspeed 92

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

I think twice of all the times we’ve flown, we’ve woken up and said, you know what, the weather’s not working out, let’s just drive it, he says. I also like to look for what I call crummy weather thats just low enough that I can get an instrument approach in, but not so much that I don’t have any outs.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Avtech proFLIGHT This app is a high-quality weather tool for the professional flight crew. ProFLIGHT uses the actual flight route and time combined with the Met Office’s Global 10KM Weather model to produce a tailored weather forecast based on the most up to date information.

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AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

ADS-B provides real-time traffic information and almost-live NEXRAD radar and weather data. 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.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It was easy enough to avoid Oakland and San Francisco Terminal Control Areas, now Class B, but Bay Area weather was completely different from New England. Otherwise, the standard weather forecast is “rain turning to showers, chance of sun breaks.” On the East Coast, the ocean is east, but on the West Coast, it is west.

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Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

We started up the engine, got the weather, asked the tower for our instrument flight plan, and began to taxi from the T-hangars on the east side of the field down the familiar route of “Hotel, Echo” to runway 18 right for a departure to the north with a turn to the east. For the first time in my life, I was going to fly my daughter somewhere.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One rule is to allow plenty of planning time, consider alternates even in good weather, and accept the fact that the best option very well could be to fly another day. 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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Clearance Turbulence Weather Density Altitude 52

Chess In the Air

JULY 4, 2022

I have tried to wait out a storm only to watch a bigger and badder one to move in and the overall weather situation getting worse. We should make more pro-active use of our radios to warn other aviators of threatening weather. They are also not limited to summer soaring weather. Are dry microbursts really invisible?

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Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Weather, field conditions, obstacles, and many other elements greatly affect short field operations. Temperature An increase in temperature will increase the density altitude. A high density altitude decreases the performance of the engine and the wing.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Approach Density Altitude 52

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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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The airplane’s engine, propeller, and wings, which have struggled all summer against the ravages of high temperatures and density altitude, are now in their happy place. The combination of shorter days, preflight delays, and harsh winter weather can make the best-laid plans fall apart.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 105

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The airplane’s engine, propeller, and wings, which have struggled all summer against the ravages of high temperatures and density altitude, are now in their happy place. The combination of shorter days, preflight delays, and harsh winter weather can make the best-laid plans fall apart.

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Ceiling Airplanes Weather Density Altitude 98

Jetwhine

APRIL 29, 2024

A warming planet means we need to be prepared for the impacts of climate change that are happening here and now, like extreme weather events that become both more frequent and severe.” Avoiding extreme weather is just part of the equation because “extreme” can be much more than stormy.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2024

And the finest example of a Cirrus SR22 is not going to want to lift a full load out of a backcountry strip on a warm afternoon with a density altitude reading five digits. You should go only if the weather is as benign as forecast, good alternates exist, and you feel good about doing it.

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Density Altitude Airplanes Wind Shear Pilot 60

Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

Weather Go-arounds due to weather occur due to wind shear caused by gusting winds or microbursts. Effects of atmospheric conditions on a go-around, such as winds and density altitude. A go-around is necessary when the runway is obstructed, either by an aircraft or object.

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Universal Weather

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

ATC often adjusts routes due to traffic, volcanic ash, or severe weather. Operational Tips Plan for Weather: Strong crosswinds, density altitude, and sea breeze effects may impact operations, especially at MMSD and coastal airports. Multiple-entry permits offer more flexibility.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

He frequently hosted visiting pilots, providing them with detailed briefings of the area and the weather. The CAPE index, a measure of convective energy and instability, was below 100 joules, indicating a very low probability of severe weather or thunderstorms. 65 kts IAS given the high density altitude.

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Air Facts

APRIL 17, 2024

There would be mountains to deal with but for now my flight was low, heading through the Mojave, weather improving. 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.

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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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Checkride Density Altitude Calibrated Airspeed True Airspeed 52

Universal Weather

JANUARY 22, 2025

ATC often adjusts routes due to traffic, volcanic ash, or severe weather. Operational Tips Plan for Weather: Strong crosswinds, density altitude, and sea breeze effects may impact operations, especially at MMSD and coastal airports. Multiple-entry permits offer more flexibility.

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