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

Pilot Institute

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 itll take 24 minutes to fly 40 miles at 100 knots.

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Heads-up, hands-free: How to use iPad audio alerts for safer flights

iPad Pilot News

These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. The alert will only sound once every 60 seconds and is automatically disabled if groundspeed is less than 40 knots. AGL after having been above 1,000 ft. MSL and 25,000 ft. per minute.

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

Also, other than mention in reports of “minor” convective activity in the area, not much information is available on weather, including bottoms of the clouds, which could be an important factor. Never exceed speed (Vne) for the V-35 is 192 knots. Those are the things we don’t know. local time, roughly three hours into the flight.

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FAA Updates Datalink Weather Advisory Circular

iPad Pilot News

FAA Updates Datalink Weather Advisory Circular iPad Pilot News The rollout of ADS-B datalink weather over twelve years ago was an interesting time for GA pilots. The result was tangible, too, with weather-related fatal accidents steadily declining in the following years.

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Blog: V-Tail Myths And The Truth, As We Know It, So Far

AV Web

Also, other than mention in reports of “minor” convective activity in the area, not much information is available on weather, including bottoms of the clouds, which could be an important factor. Never exceed speed (Vne) for the V-35 is 192 knots. Those are the things we don’t know. FlightAware data stopped at that point.

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Flying Through the Center of a Trough Should Have Been Uneventful

Flying Magazine

Over the last 25 years, I have been asked to speak on various aviation weather topics at dozens of aviation events and gatherings. During these events, it’s quite common for a pilot to walk up and ask me about how I handled my most challenging flight as it relates to weather. I spent an hour looking at the weather before we departed.

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Riding the Mountain Waves

Plane and Pilot

FAA weather charts can help for higher altitudes but when just a few thousand feet agl, they may be less useful. Great Falls weather is fair and warm. It was all about the interaction of weather and terrain. Eighty-knot tailwinds aloft and higher-than-normal temperature difference between the surface and aloft.