Exercise Your License to Learn
Wake turbulence is a serious threat to aircraft of all sizes. One of the most common places to find wake turbulence is at busy airports, especially during big airline pushes. It is vital to avoid the swirling vortices behind that fat Airbus on short final and we’ve all be trained on the proper avoidance technique, [...]
As aviators, we are particularly concerned with temperature. We monitor our EGT or ITT, CHT, OAT, TAT, or SAT. Most of the time we deal with this alphabet soup of temperatures in terms of degrees Celsius. Most Americans however, still think in terms of degrees Fahrenheit. We need a simple method to convert degrees Celsius [...]
“Twin Cessna 543MT, fly present heading, join the Graham 230 radial direct Graham.” In order to fly the 230 radial inbound, you will need to tune your CDI needle to the opposite of 230°.¹ How do you compute the opposite heading? Read on.
“N5678, cross LTOWN at and maintain one-zero thousand feet.” Center just issued you a crossing restriction. You are expected to plan and initiate your descent so as to cross some point at a given altitude. You are cruising at 300 knots 100 miles from LTOWN at flight level 240. When will you initiate your descent? [...]
