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AIRMETs Vs. SIGMETS: What’s the Difference?

Pilot Institute

These weather alerts each have their own role: AIRMETs warn about moderate conditions like turbulence, icing, and limited visibility, which can affect smaller or less equipped aircraft. SIGMETs alert pilots to more severe weather events like thunderstorms, volcanic ash, or strong turbulence that could pose serious risks to any flight.

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Navigating Weather Challenges: A Guide for Single-Engine Pilots

CFI Academy

Explore practical tips for maintaining situational awareness, adjusting to changing conditions, and using navigation instruments effectively. Explore emergency procedures for single-engine pilots, including how to handle turbulence, thunderstorms, and icing.

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The Complete Home Flight Simulator Setup Guide (2025)

Pilot Institute

Advanced Controllers One of the most frustrating aspects of flight simulation is adjusting cockpit controls. Trying to tune the approach frequency with the mouse in turbulence is frustrating. This is why many flight simmers eventually purchase radios and autopilot controllers. Check out the Top 5 Throttle Quadrants.

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Drone Lingo Simplified: Acronyms Every Pilot Needs To Know

Pilot Institute

IFR Instrument Flight Rules IFR is the set of rules that allow pilots to fly by reference to instruments in the flight deck when flying by visual reference is not safe. The first is for simple location identification and transmission. An AIRMET applies to an area of at least 3000 square miles.

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Business jet flight decks

Professional Pilot

Additional features, such as speed offsets, velocity cues, and crosswind adjustments enhance precision, particularly during approach and in turbulent or crosswind conditions. Honeywells Primus Epic integrates seamlessly with Gulfstreams PlaneView flight deck, which features four 10×13-inch LCDs.

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Weather Map Resources: Graphical Forecasts for Aviation

Learn to Fly

Right to left: radar reflectivity; pilot report (PRIREP) icing, turbulence, or other; the flight category, signifying visual flight rules, instrument flight rules, etc.; The sheer number of options available in the legend gives you a hint to the amount of information available.

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Flight vision systems

Professional Pilot

The group concluded that 17 had been caused by darkness or instrument flight rules (IFR) conditions that deprived pilots of their outside visual references. In addition, previews of weather in 3D show Internet-based icing and turbulence forecasts at various altitudes. Some of them were fatal. million in 2022.