Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Maximum Speed The maximum speed of a Cessna 172 is approximately 140 knots, or about 160 miles per hour. Cruise Speed In terms of cruise speed, a typical Cessna 172 flies at around 120 knots (approximately 138 miles per hour). Several factors can influence cruising speeds, including altitude, aircraft weight, and weather conditions.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, I am always aware that VA hovers somewhere near 100 knots, and VB may be even less, both depending on gross weight. A quick check of the POH usually lets us know that both VA and VB may be below our regular cruising speed and the yellow arc. My trusty strutless Cardinal loves to descend and builds up speed quickly.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

With a maximum takeoff weight of 2,400 pounds and a maximum gross weight that ensures stability, this aircraft is robust enough to handle a variety of flying conditions. For instance, Knots 2U offers a Cessna 172 Cowl / Body Fairing Kit that improves aerodynamics and can increase cruise speed by 3-4 mph.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In order to be flown by a sport pilot, the resulting airplane must still meet the current regulations—1,320 pounds maximum gross weight, 120 knots max cruise speed, for example—but how it gets there is up to the builder. With a 41-knot stall speed, the common 1.3 Vso approach speed is 53 knots. gallons per hour.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 98

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

In the Cessna 172S Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH), the landing distance decreases by 10% for every 9 knots of headwind. For the Cessna 172, landing distance increases by 10% for every 2 knots of tailwind. Aircraft Weight and Limitations An aircraft’s weight affects inertia and stopping distance.

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Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

According to the official Cherokee Warrior II Information Manual, the recommended approach speed with full flaps is 63 knots. However, on the flight home from Guthrie, I made my approach at exactly 63 knots to the Kentland Municipal Airport (50I) in the midst of a windswept Indiana cornfield.

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Airplanes Knot Avionics Master Switch Runway 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH) for your airplane will list V A , typically for maximum gross weight. Maintain the entry altitude ±100 feet, airspeed ±10 knots, bank ±5°, and roll out on the entry heading ±10°. Maintain the entry altitude ±100 feet, airspeed ±10 knots, bank ±5°; and roll out on the entry heading, ±10°.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

This is often the clean configuration at max gross weight. The stall warning horn sounds at least 5 knots above the actual stall speed. Since you need to fly without triggering the warning, select a target airspeed of about 2 to 5 knots more. Check your POH for specifics.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

As it does, one aircraft is seeking to capture a particular slice of the advanced air mobility market, one that none of its rivals can challenge – that is, the provision of electric flights for seven people flying at up to 250 knots (450kph) and with a stage length of around 500 miles (800km).

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The flight data recorder shows the following: Directly before take-off, the gross weight was 328.2 About 40 seconds later, when the aircraft was travelling 153 knots, a pitch-up command was recorded. Five seconds later, at 166 knots and a pitch of 8.2°, tail strike indicators 1 and 2 were activated.

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Tail V Speed Knot Runway 82

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

We routinely taxi at 1200 rpm due to the low spray…[we] can cruise at 10 knots” in displacement mode, something a Goose can’t do. Early on a speed restriction of 130 knots was applied as a flutter issue. This was resolved on the kit version and led to cruising at 50% power and 120 knots, which proved to be the Gweduck’s sweet spot.

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Air Facts

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Since we were now at our maximum gross weight, a full power takeoff was mandatory. At 60 knots, I glanced at the manifold pressure gauges and was shocked to see the right engine at 52, but the left one at only 43 inches!

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Gross Weight Airplanes Flight Deck Runway 89

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Flight Design rates the F2 with the same 16-knot demonstrated crosswind component as the previous CTs. Max Gross Weight: 1,320 lbs. Empty Weight: 840 lbs. Stall Speed, Flaps Down: 39 knots Takeoff Distance: 460 ft. Well see about that. In this case, nothing. Wing Area: 121.6 Length: 22.5 Height: 8.8

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 16, 2025

Those of us interacting with the FAA for years feel we got everything we requested in terms of expanding LSA capabilities, including abandoning a specific maximum gross weight (currently 1,320 pounds for landplanes) and permitting higher speeds, slightly more complex aircraft systems, and more seats.

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Calibrated Airspeed Gross Weight Knot Airplanes 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Maximum Gross Weight: 1,587 lbs. Empty Weight, Standard: 959 lbs. Stall Speed, Flaps Down: 44 knots Takeoff Distance: 1,017 ft. Baron told us to lift the nose at 50 knots, which proved correct for a takeoff about 900 feet down the runway. IAS settled on an even 100 knots. Wing Area: 128.1 Length: 22.1

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Knot Airplanes Rudder Gross Weight 97