The good news is that the airspeed indicator always provides a pretty reliable picture of how much air is flowing over the wing. There aren’t many things more important than this! When it comes to keeping your dinner reservation for that $100 hamburger at the end of a long cross country,...
Boeing stopped installing the stand-alone indicator in favor of modern, reliable flat panel displays. Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. The instrument provides pilots with a surprising amount of information. Read on to find ...
How does a vintage airspeed indicator work? CuriousMarc picked one up for a project, but it didn't have any documentation, so I reverse-engineered it. This indicator was used in the cockpit panel for business jets such as the Gulfstream G-III, Cessna Citation, and Bombardier Challenger CL...
How the problem is dealt with very much depends on the aircraft type and how the airspeed is sensed and presented in the flight deck. As a result, when training on a new type of aircraft, it is important that we as pilots know exactly how the pitot-static systems works and what to do...
So how do you know what your stall speed really is? If you had an AOA indicator, it’s easy. Whenever your AOA indicator says you are close to stalling, read the airspeed indicator to see what your stall speed is, if you really care! At a fixed AOA, your stall speed varies directly...