The Need for Vspeed
This Speed is known as the Never Exceed Speed, and it is the fastest that an aircraft can fly without causing structural damage.
Vne
This phenomenon is always present in thunderstorms.
Lightning
This required onboard manual contains operating limitations, procedures, and performance data specific to the aircraft.
What is the Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH)?
These two brothers made the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
These three letters stand for the rules that govern every aspect of U.S. aviation operations.
What are the FARs (Federal Aviation Regulations)?
This speed is the Flaps Extended Speed, and it is the maximum speed at which flaps can be deployed.
What is Vfe?
This in-flight report, issued by pilots, gives real-time observations of weather conditions encountered aloft.
What is a PIREP?
This section of the POH lists V-speeds, weight and balance data, and other operating limits.
What is the Limitations section?
She disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
According to Part 61, a pilot must carry this document while acting as pilot in command.
What is a pilot certificate?
This speed is specific to the Cirrus and it is the max demonstrated speed at which the parachute was deployed in testing.
What is Vpd?
This is report tells us the weather that updates every hour to tell us our ceilings, winds, and possible remarks.
What is a METAR?
In an emergency, pilots refer to this section first — it includes checklists for engine failures, fires, and electrical malfunctions.
What is the Emergency Procedures section?
In 1947, this test pilot broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, nicknamed Glamorous Glennis.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
Under §91.151, for day VFR, a pilot must have enough fuel to reach the destination and fly for this amount of time beyond.
What is 30 minutes?
This speed is the stall speed of the aircraft in a specific configuration.
What is Vs?
These graphical products replaced text-based AIRMETs and display areas of expected turbulence, icing, and IFR conditions.
What is an AIRMET?
These charts in the POH are used to determine takeoff and landing distances based on temperature, altitude, and aircraft weight.
What are Performance Charts?
In 1927, this pilot became the first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane Spirit of St. Louis.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
If a pilot experiences a radio communication failure, this is the transponder code to squawk.
What is 7600?
This speed is the design maneuvering speed. Below this speed the aircraft will stall before causing structural damage when high load is put on the aircraft.
What is Va?
Before flight, a pilot can call Flight Service to receive this type of briefing covering current, forecast, and en route conditions.
What is a Standard Weather Briefing?
While the POH is a general model reference, this aircraft-specific document, often kept with it, includes serial-number-specific data.
What is the Airplane Flight Manual (AFM)?
In 1981, this U.S. President fired over 11,000 striking air traffic controllers after they walked out in violation of federal law, leading to the decertification of their union, PATCO.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
According to §91.205, this list details the instruments and equipment required for VFR day and night operations.
What is the required equipment list (ATOMATOFLAMES and FLAPS)?