Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such...
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govern flight under conditions in which flight by outside visual reference is not safe. IFR flight depends upon flying by reference to instruments in the...
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aircraft after the failure of one of the flight instruments. It was Air India's deadliest air disaster until Flight 182 in 1985 and was the deadliest airliner...
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aviation, instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) are weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to flight instruments, and therefore...
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aviation, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) is a flight instrument display system in an aircraft cockpit that displays flight data electronically...
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Link Trainer (redirect from Flight Instruments Trainer)
fly by instruments. Ed Link used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows gained at his father's Link Piano and Organ Company to create a flight simulator...
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the basic flight instruments relayed false airspeed, altitude and vertical speed data. Because the failure was not in any of the instruments, but rather...
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Sukhoi Su-30MKK (section Flight instruments)
March 1999. That same month, a "Bort 501 Blue" prototype made its first flight at the Zhukovsky Air Base. In November 2000, "Bort 502 Blue" attended the...
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Cockpit (section Flight instruments)
controls the vehicle. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls that enable the pilot to fly the...
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Swissair Flight 111 (SR111/SWR111) was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States...
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use of the aircraft flight controls and aircraft engine controls to adjust the "sight picture". Some reference to flight instruments is usually necessary...
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remained in use in French flight test centers well into the 1970s. In 1947, Hussenot founded the Société Française des Instruments de Mesure with Beaudouin...
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the aircraft is accelerating, decelerating, or banking. Gyroscopic flight instruments such as the attitude indicator (artificial horizon) and the turn and...
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Glass cockpit (category Aircraft instruments)
sensors that feed them have modernized as well. Traditional gyroscopic flight instruments have been replaced by electronic attitude and heading reference systems...
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critical sensors and flight instruments to fly the aircraft as well as enough hydraulic pressure to operate the primary flight controls (without which...
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Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, on February 12, 2009. Approaching Buffalo, the aircraft...
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repeated power transfer interruptions to the flight instruments. The temporary blanking of the instruments gave the appearance that standby power had failed...
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with working instruments was mounted on the motion platform. When the cockpit was covered, pilots could practice flying by instruments in a safe environment...
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Gimli Glider (redirect from Robert Pearson (Air Canada Flight 143))
battery-powered emergency flight instruments. While these provided sufficient information to land the aircraft, the backup instruments did not include a vertical...
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specifically: "the failure of the flight crew to monitor the flight instruments during the final four minutes of flight, and to detect an unexpected descent...
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Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 (also known as the Poldercrash or the Schiphol Polderbaan incident) was a passenger flight that crashed during landing at...
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also sends the flight plan information for display on the Navigation Display (ND) of the flight deck instruments Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS)...
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information to the flight crew's instruments) no. 1 (connected to the captain's instruments and the flight data recorder) had malfunctioned in-flight (the SHK was...
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flight instruments to know how his airplane was performing, rather than by concentrating on his single Primary Flight Display]. Both [Primary Flight Display]...
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ICAO recommendations on use of the International System of Units Flight instruments Flight level Hypsometer Jason-1 and Ocean Surface Topography Mission...
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In aviation, a flight director (FD) is a flight instrument that is overlaid on the attitude indicator that shows the pilot of an aircraft the attitude...
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landmarks. Pilots with limited instrument flight proficiency have a well-documented tendency to disregard flight instruments and act instinctively in reaction...
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cell phone would have affected the aircraft's flight instruments." Later study of the wreckage of Flight 703 revealed that the antennas for the radar altimeter...
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primary flight display or PFD is a modern aircraft instrument dedicated to flight information. Much like multi-function displays, primary flight displays...
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cross-check their position on the radar with that of other flight instruments), and did not monitor the flight on the terminal radar display, which showed the terrain...
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