Flight Plan, Pilot and True Airspeed

Quiz: Flight Planning with Sporty’s E6B

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

There are many aviation calculations required for preflight preparation and when planning a cross-country trip. In the early days, pilots used a mechanical circular slide rule, called an E6B. During flight training, youll learn to plan your cross-country flights first by hand and use the E6B each step of the way.

Flight Plan

Flight Plan True Airspeed Flight Computer Groundspeed

Quiz: VFR Cross-Country Flight Planning

Flight Training Central

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Winds aloft, true course, heading and groundspeed. Can you put all the puzzle pieces together and plan a successful cross-country flight? Use this quiz to test your flight planning knowledge and see if you can get a perfect score. Which statement about longitude and latitude is true?

Flight Plan

Flight Plan Groundspeed True Airspeed Knot

4 Different Types of Airspeed: How to Calculate Each

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 21, 2025

Airspeed guides everything from takeoff to landing and every phase in between. But did you know there are several types of airspeed, each serving a unique purpose? Like Indicated Airspeed (IAS) , Calibrated Airspeed (CAS) , True Airspeed (TAS) , and more! Lets break down the six types of airspeed!

Calibrated Airspeed

Calibrated Airspeed True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Airplanes

E6B Made Easy: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The student pilot may initially struggle to understand the functions of an E6B flight computer. But pilots around the globe rely on this indispensable gadget for charting their flights, crunching numbers to determine time in transit, fuel usage, and necessary adjustments for wind shifts. Thats your true airspeed.

Groundspeed

Groundspeed True Airspeed Density Altitude Knot

What Is Air Density? A Simple Guide for Pilots

Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2025

For pilots, understanding air density isn’t just about physics; its about safety and efficiency in every flight. High-density altitude reduces aircraft performance, requiring flight adjustments. Pilots calculate density altitude to assess and compensate for changes in air density. What Is Air Density?

Density Altitude

Density Altitude Pilot True Airspeed Lift

Transponder Codes Made Easy: A Pilot’s Survival List

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Pilots and ATCs daily use transponder codes, also known as squawk codes. If you can manage to do so without putting yourself at risk after leaving your last cleared routing, you should: Maintain a true airspeed of no more than 400knots and preferably an altitude between 10,000 and 25,000feet. 1000 Non-discrete mode.

Transponder

Transponder Air Traffic Control Visual Flight Rules True Airspeed

Pilot’s aviation app directory – 2025 Edition

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Pilot’s aviation app directory 2025 Edition iPad Pilot News iPad Pilot News has helped pilots discoverover 100 quality aviation appssince the invention of the iPad in 2010.Here AOPA Magazine Delivers AOPA’s monthly magazines to AOPA members, including AOPA Pilot and AOPA Flight Training.

Weather

Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes

How to Obtain a Good Weather Briefing as a Commercial Pilot

Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Before you become a commercial pilot, it’s important to know how to obtain a good weather briefing. Call (480) 372-9815 today to begin your training toward a pilot’s license. Flying in appropriate weather helps make your flight enjoyable and keeps your passengers safe.

Weather

Weather Pilot True Airspeed Ceiling

Across the pond

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Transatlantic routes While safety is still the primary concern for pilots, today’s challenges are not so much the vastness and weather on this ocean, but traffic density and regulatory compliance. This is where the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS) guides your flight planning.

Jet

Jet Weather True Airspeed Turbulence

Across the pond

Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

Transatlantic routes While safety is still the primary concern for pilots, today’s challenges are not so much the vastness and weather on this ocean, but traffic density and regulatory compliance. This is where the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS) guides your flight planning.

Jet

Jet Weather True Airspeed Turbulence

Exploring the Intricacies of the Airspeed Indicator

Pilot's Life Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

However, the single most important aircraft instrument is probably the airspeed indicator. True to its name, the airspeed indicator tells you how fast the plane is going and is important for flight planning and maintaining aircraft performance. Why Are Airspeed Indicators Important?

Pitot Tube

Pitot Tube Indicated Airspeed True Airspeed Calibrated Airspeed

Instrument Flying (IFR) FAQs – top questions this week

Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Pilots are able to discontinue reporting compulsory points when informed by ATC that the aircraft is in “radar contact.” AIM 5-3-3 ) Change in the average true airspeed (at cruising altitude) when it varies by 5 percent or 10 knots (whichever is greater) from that filed in the flight plan. (

Instrument Flight Rules

Instrument Flight Rules AGL Ceiling True Airspeed

IFR Flight Planning: Best Tips for Pilots

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

You might think that Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are just about how to control and use your instruments in the aircraft, but you need more than skill–you need a rock-solid plan. IFR flight planning is about preparing for every twist and turn along the route. What Is an IFR Flight Plan?

Flight Plan

Flight Plan Pilot Weather Approach

From the archive: A Pleasant Time

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

It was interesting and a lot of fun for a lot of reasons, with most of them having to do with not flying a jet and not being restricted by ATC and all the regulatory stuff that makes an airline pilot feel like he’s roped and tied. That’s why so many airline pilots are private pilots too and own airplanes.

Weather

Weather Airplanes Lift Pilot

In Defense of the Paper Nav Log

Air Facts

MARCH 10, 2025

In Defense of the Paper Nav Log Air Facts Journal We’ve all heard the stereotypes about the way age affects the abilities of student pilots. A mid-lifer often shows up equipped with ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot from the start. For a mid-life pilot, this seems like a criminal waste of time. “Those high school kids?

Checkride

Checkride Density Altitude Calibrated Airspeed True Airspeed

South to Argentina

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 4, 2025

What is your range and true airspeed? The Caribbean has been covered in the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) guide , but that is not our destinationwere just passing through. ForeFlight plan filing seems to work in the Bahamas and Caribbean, but you wont always receive confirmation that it was received.

Flight Plan

Flight Plan Weather True Airspeed Airplanes

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Quiz: Flight Planning with Sporty’s E6B

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4 Different Types of Airspeed: How to Calculate Each

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Transponder Codes Made Easy: A Pilot’s Survival List

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How to Obtain a Good Weather Briefing as a Commercial Pilot

Across the pond

Across the pond

Exploring the Intricacies of the Airspeed Indicator

Instrument Flying (IFR) FAQs – top questions this week

IFR Flight Planning: Best Tips for Pilots

From the archive: A Pleasant Time

In Defense of the Paper Nav Log

South to Argentina

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