Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Learn how to use the wind side to find groundspeed and wind correction angles. Your groundspeed (which will differ from your airspeed as the wind pushes you around). The rear has the wind side for calculating wind correction angles and groundspeed. That means our groundspeed was 90 knots. Thats not all.

Groundspeed 52

Groundspeed True Airspeed Density Altitude Knot 52

Air Facts

MAY 10, 2024

ICAO minima for circling approaches is much higher than that stipulated in the FARs so consider higher weather minima. We also benefit from the latest weather updates. A proactive policy may very well be to prohibit night circling approaches Weather updates? The rule of thumb is VSI = ½ groundspeed times 10.

Approach 97

Approach AGL Descent Runway 97

Air Facts

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Flying to Oklahoma from New Jersey in my G36 Bonanza, I once encountered a mountain wave where the indicated airspeed changed from 92 knots to 164 knots without a single bump. Weather is not only “flying in the clouds,” it is a everything that happens in space. The milk churns and churns until it finds equilibrium.

Turbulence 52

Turbulence Knot Wind Shear Lift 52

Air Facts

MARCH 10, 2025

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? Winds on the surface, and winds at altitude: both concepts are covered in the nav-log lesson.

Checkride 52

Checkride Density Altitude Calibrated Airspeed True Airspeed 52