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    The airspeed indicator (ASI) or airspeed gauge is a flight instrument indicating the airspeed of an aircraft in kilometres per hour (km/h), knots (kn...
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    Indicated airspeed (IAS) is the airspeed of an aircraft as measured by its pitot-static system and displayed by the airspeed indicator (ASI). This is the...
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    Mach number is sometimes used for reporting airspeed. Indicated airspeed (IAS) is the airspeed indicator reading (ASIR) uncorrected for instrument, position...
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    The true airspeed is important information for accurate navigation of an aircraft. Traditionally it is measured using an analogue TAS indicator, but as...
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    aircraft's structure. When airspeed increases, the ram air pressure is increased, which can be translated by the airspeed indicator. The static pressure is...
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    flight rules (VFR) require an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, and a compass or other suitable magnetic direction indicator. Instrument flight rules (IFR)...
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  • altitudes by a simple (single capsule) airspeed indicator. CAS is therefore a standard for calibrating the airspeed indicator such that CAS equals EAS at sea...
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    instrument panel, where other standby basic instruments such as the airspeed indicator and altimeter are also available. These mostly mechanical standby...
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    indicator with the co-pilot's airspeed indicator, and when an error was observed, the source of the airspeed indicator on the co-pilot's side switched...
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  • Position error (category Airspeed)
    the location of the static vent that supplies air pressure to the airspeed indicator and altimeter; there is no position on an aircraft where, at all angles...
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    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling...
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    In aviation, the turn and slip indicator (T/S, a.k.a. turn indicator and turn and bank indicator) and the turn coordinator (TC) variant are essentially...
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    incorporating an airspeed indicator, altimeter, artificial horizon, directional gyroscope, rate of climb indicator and turn indicator. Life support equipment...
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  • the true airspeed at altitude Indicated airspeed (IAS), the airspeed read directly from the airspeed indicator on an aircraft True airspeed (TAS), the...
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    late 20th century still retained analog altimeters, attitude, and airspeed indicators as standby instruments in case the EFIS displays failed, more modern...
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    terms of airspeed. This is because all aircraft are equipped with an airspeed indicator, but fewer aircraft have an angle of attack indicator. An aircraft's...
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  • armed forces used in air warfare. Flight (military unit) Airspeed alive: Airspeed indicator showing increasing speed. Smoke in the air: used by pilots/aircrew...
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    of sensing speed, eg. boats use a pit log, while aircraft use an airspeed indicator. Charles Babbage is credited with creating an early type of a speedometer...
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    shown on an aircraft's pitot-static airspeed indicator CAS is "knots calibrated airspeed", the indicated airspeed corrected for position error and instrument...
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  • true airspeed (TAS) and altitude at which the aircraft is flying. In low-speed flight, it is the speed which would be shown by an airspeed indicator with...
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    of climb and descent indicator (RCDI), rate-of-climb indicator, vertical speed indicator (VSI), or vertical velocity indicator (VVI) – is one of the...
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  • either headwind or tailwind as well as a crosswind component. An airspeed indicator indicates the aircraft's speed relative to the air mass it is flying...
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    A course deviation indicator (CDI) is an avionics instrument used in aircraft navigation to determine an aircraft's lateral position in relation to a...
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    V speeds (category Airspeed)
    as color-coded arcs and lines located on the face of an aircraft's airspeed indicator. The lower ends of the white arc and the green arc are the stalling...
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    at a minimum, an airspeed indicator, turn coordinator, attitude indicator, heading indicator, altimeter, and vertical speed indicator [14 CFR Part 61.129(j)(1)]...
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    Aircraft periscope Airspeed indicator Altimeter Annunciator panel Astrodome Attitude indicator Compass Course deviation indicator EFIS EICAS Flight management...
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    aircraft's airspeed, as the B-52 turbofan engines take up to eight seconds to respond to throttle commands. Even though the airspeed indicator was available...
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    that refers to flying an aircraft at the maximum safe velocity. The airspeed Indicator on aircraft capable of flying at altitude features a red/white striped...
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    as well. Typically there are 3 instruments: a airspeed indicator, a altimeter and a attitude indicator. An ISIS is designed to combine the functions of...
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    ICAO recommendations on use of the International System of Units Airspeed indicator Mach number Pitot-static system Instrument Flying Handbook. U.S. Government...
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