Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

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. I made a lazy turn away, lowered the nose slightly, airspeed thankfully increasing. Lessons learned, some forgotten.

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iPad Pilot News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Stratus Insight Appareo relaunched this app in 2020 with a host of flight planning and weather tools, but the most useful feature for student pilots is the speech-to-text option for radio communications. It’s a great way to determine groundspeed, density altitude and many other crucial performance calculations. in the App Store.

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iPad Pilot News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Stratus Insight Appareo relaunched this app in 2020 with a host of flight planning and weather tools, but the most useful feature for student pilots is the speech-to-text option for radio communications. It’s a great way to determine groundspeed, density altitude and many other crucial performance calculations. in the App Store.

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AV Web

MAY 22, 2024

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. There has been no information to date on what avionics and autopilot might have been installed. Those are the things we don’t know.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

There is also a stats button on the bottom right that shows altitude and groundspeed charts throughout each leg. Each airport shows flights that have been posted to it, basic airport info, live weather, and reviews that users leave. Pilots will be able to see their flights broken down into each leg.

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Air Facts

APRIL 29, 2024

A pit stop at North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (KCRE) was planned, and after a weather briefing, I filed an IFR flight plan. The Mooney is well-equipped for weather avoidance as it is equipped with a sophisticated spheric lighting detector. We were wheels up around 1:30pm.

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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.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 5, 2024

Following a check of the weather, NOTAMS and TFR’s, you are confronted with some decisions to make. The weather is VMC but it’s hot, and the density altitude is really creeping up there. Assuming the mighty Warrior can produce a groundspeed of 90 knots, you take that number, divide it by 60, and you’ll end up with 1.5.

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iPad Pilot News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

How to use the Sentry Plus advanced features iPad Pilot News Portable ADS-B receivers have become essential gear for most pilots flying with an iPad these days, providing ADS-B traffic/weather and GPS navigation.

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iPad Pilot News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We’ve been flying with the Apple Watch since it first launched, and it’s become increasingly useful every year for both preflight weather checks and as an in-cockpit resource. When on the go, you can use the GPS feature to find the nearest weather station image.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Weather wasn’t a factor either, the sun coming up on a glorious Nevada morning. The last ADS-B flight data point has the airplane at about 2,519 feet msl with a groundspeed of only 48 knots. No clouds, no wind, visibility unlimited. At 8 a.m., it was already a dry-heat 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Photographic Logbook

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Aside from a groundspeed boost from a tailwind, the outbound flight was nondescript. It was a simple, last-minute flight planned around an excuse of lunch, but the day resolved into one of those perfect, memorable combinations of great weather, great flying, great food, great company, and absolutely amazing vistas.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Weather wasn’t a factor either, the sun coming up on a glorious Nevada morning. The last ADS-B flight data point has the airplane at about 2,519 feet msl with a groundspeed of only 48 knots. No clouds, no wind, visibility unlimited. At 8 a.m., it was already a dry-heat 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The equilibrium in a confined space is easy to see, but in the infinite space where several weather phenomena are competing and contemplating their actions at once, equilibrium is not often the result. Weather is not only “flying in the clouds,” it is a everything that happens in space. As we turned back, the wind shear hit.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

But don’t hang up your headset just because the weather isn’t perfect. A headwind lowers groundspeed , making landing easier. Use weather forecast charts, METARs, and Terminal Area Forecasts (TAFs). Have the winds changed since your departure weather briefing? At non-towered fields, check the AWOS or ASOS.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 16, 2024

After refuelling, checking weather, filing my VFR flight plan using ForeFlight, coffee and a washroom break, I launched to my next destination, Greensboro. With a screaming tailwind, I was seeing a groundspeed of 185 kts at 6,500 feet. Flying back was bit more challenging from a weather perspective. hours flight time.

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Air Facts

AUGUST 21, 2024

Given good weather, there is no excuse not to go fly. My Sonex cruises about 130 mph at this power setting, but headed southeast into the wind I am losing an easy 15 mph on my groundspeed. My groundspeed is 150 mph and ahead of me the sunlight streams in Jacob’s Ladder’s from the clouds.

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Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

After 11 hours of flight during our descent to initiate an approach, the airport closed for Category I (CAT I) approaches due to weather. First of all, proper fuel, route and weather planning are key. All of my diversions were weather-related, mostly to thunderstorms. Weather went zero/zero at our primary and alternate airports.

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Air Facts

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This came after a week of weather delay with some of the thickest fog I had ever seen blanketed Vancouver Island. I checked THE weather and made plans for the next leg. After conversing with the weather briefer, I was confident that the weather would be clear at my planned destination of that leg in Winnemucca, Nevada.

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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.

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