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Airspeed and Altitude Control Simplified: Tips for Stable Flying

Pilot Institute

If you’re aiming to get comfortable with managing both airspeed and altitude in flight, you’ll need to understand the difference between indicated airspeed (IAS) and true airspeed (TAS). Key Takeaways Airspeed and altitude are directly linked to each other throughout different phases of your flight.

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Split-S Decision

Plane and Pilot

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. Airspeed reached 248 kias, well over the never exceed VNE of 200 kias. The vertical descent rate reached the data-recording limit of 9,999 feet per minute.

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Split-S Decision

Plane and Pilot

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. Airspeed reached 248 kias, well over the never exceed VNE of 200 kias. The vertical descent rate reached the data-recording limit of 9,999 feet per minute.

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Piper M700 Fury Receives Canadian Certification

AV Web

Powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-52 turboprop engine, the M700 Fury has a maximum cruise speed of 301 knots true airspeed (ktas), with a range of 1,149 nautical miles. At normal cruise (292 ktas), range is 1,424 nm. The Fury comes with the certified FIKI system and Garmin Autoland.

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Danger lurks in circling approaches

Air Facts

Perhaps just prior to the start of descent could be the optimum time–certainly completed no later than commencement of approach. Particular attention to true airspeed vs. turn radius. Recall that we must remain at or above MDA until we are in a normal position to perform a normal rate of descent to landing.

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Mastering Short Field Landings (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Pilot Institute

Your aircraft will fly at a faster true airspeed at higher density altitudes. Any substantial changes to speed and descent rate will destabilize the landing. This gives you a safe buffer on the stall speed and plenty of time to stabilize. Power controls the rate of descent, and pitch controls airspeed.