Pilot Institute

JANUARY 3, 2025

In these locations, windsocks can be the only means of gauging wind conditions. Non-Towered Airports Compared to commercial airports that have tower services, many general aviation airports are uncontrolled. It is your responsibility to evaluate wind conditions before selecting a runway for takeoff or landing.

Knot 98

Knot Weather Wind Shear Weight-Shift-Control 98

Air Facts

APRIL 14, 2025

By far the best and most appropriate way to consider the utilization of visual angle of attack indicators (VAOAI) in general aviation is using the techniques of systems engineering. The system for VAOAI is pretty much all of general aviation and not just the hardware on the airplane.

Final Approach 52

Final Approach General Aviation Approach Wind Shear 52

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Airborne Wind Shear Detection During the 1980s and 1990s, NASA led a comprehensive research program to identify the characteristics of dangerous wind shear and validated technologies that can predict its severity while in flight. Winglets help increase an aircraft’s range and decrease fuel consumption.

Wind Shear 52

Wind Shear Airfoil Drag Airline 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 6, 2025

This is a general aviation term that also applies to drone flight. LLWS Low-Level Wind Shear An LLWS is defined as a wind shear of 10 knots or more per 100 feet in a layer more than 200 feet thick which occurs within 2000 feet of the surface.

Pilot 52

Pilot Weather Air Traffic Control NOTAMs 52

Learn to Fly

APRIL 11, 2024

Wind—Is the direction and speed conducive to the runway alignment at both the departure and arrival airport? Turbulence and Wind Shear—Ironically, it’s often bumpiest when the skies are the clearest. How will the tailwind or headwind impact your ground speed and therefore fuel planning?

Weather 40

Weather Wind Shear Turbulence Ceiling 40

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 11, 2024

An APD is to airlines what a DPE is to general aviation—an instructor with authorization from the FAA to administer check rides. The others were an abort, a V1 cut, or wind shear. The words of a prior instructor bounced inside my brain: “Here we are, ready to go.

Wind Shear 98

Wind Shear Flight Deck Pilot Airplanes 98

Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

Yet, statistics show that go-arounds are among the riskiest maneuvers in general aviation. Weather Go-arounds due to weather occur due to wind shear caused by gusting winds or microbursts. When an aircraft encounters horizontal wind shear, it could be blown off centerline.

Wind Shear 52

Wind Shear Runway Approach Aeronautical Decision-Making 52