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...

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...

aviation, instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) are weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to flight instruments, and therefore...

aviation, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) is a flight instrument display system in an aircraft cockpit that displays flight data electronically...

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...

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...

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...

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...

the basic flight instruments relayed false airspeed, altitude and vertical speed data. Because the failure was not in any of the instruments, but rather...

use of the aircraft flight controls and aircraft engine controls to adjust the "sight picture". Some reference to flight instruments is usually necessary...

impaired some flight instruments, controllers had to direct Flight 797 to the airport using a "no gyro" approach, with the controller observing Flight 797 on...

with working instruments was mounted on the motion platform. When the cockpit was covered, pilots could practice flying by instruments in a safe environment...

sensors that feed them have modernized as well. Traditional gyroscopic flight instruments have been replaced by electronic attitude and heading reference systems...

also sends the flight plan information for display on the Navigation Display (ND) of the flight deck instruments Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS)...

Swissair Flight 111 (SR111/SWR111) was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States...

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...

Other contributory factors were found to be a failure to monitor flight instruments adequately, and a lack of audio height warning equipment. The crash...

primary flight display or PFD is a modern aircraft instrument dedicated to flight information. Much like multi-function displays, primary flight displays...

ICAO recommendations on use of the International System of Units Flight instruments Flight level Hypsometer Jason-1 and Ocean Surface Topography Mission...

critical sensors and flight instruments to fly the aircraft as well as enough hydraulic pressure to operate the primary flight controls (without which...

military. The ICAO defines an instrument approach as "a series of predetermined maneuvers by reference to flight instruments with specific protection from...

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...

the aircraft is accelerating, decelerating, or banking. Gyroscopic flight instruments such as the attitude indicator (artificial horizon) and the turn and...

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...

repeated power transfer interruptions to the flight instruments. The temporary blanking of the instruments gave the appearance that standby power had failed...

indicator (VSI), or vertical velocity indicator (VVI) – is one of the flight instruments in an aircraft used to inform the pilot of the rate of descent or...

indications of the flight instruments.: 39  The NTSB also concluded that failure of either air traffic controllers or the flight crew to abort the landing...

(AI), also known as the gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is a flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft orientation relative to Earth's...

reading the flight instruments and when wind direction and speed are known from either the meteorological forecast or from determination in flight. Solve for...

landmarks. Pilots with limited instrument flight proficiency have a well-documented tendency to disregard flight instruments and act instinctively in reaction...