Instrumentation Questions
The questions addressed in this section describe the various instruments and navigational aids that pilots use to
guide or monitor their planes during flight.
How do you measure g's?
I was on a flight ... when the TV screen showed a speed of well over
700 mph, and the pilot told us that we were being pushed by one of the fastest tail winds he had ever
experienced. ... Did I fly faster than the speed of sound?
What is the difference between airspeed, true airspeed, equivalent
airspeed, calibrated airspeed, indicated airspeed, and ground speed? Which of these speeds does a pilot
see in the cockpit?
On sectional aeronautical charts, used by pilots for navigation, they
use a different symbol for runways longer than 8,069 feet than they do for runways of shorter length. Why
8,069 feet?
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