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Aircraft Navigation Lights

Aircraft Navigation and Position Lights

Aircraft Position Lights

Airplane Lighting
During night hours, no person shall operate an aircraft unless it has lighted position lights. These are referred to as Navigation Lights or commonly known as Position Lights. Navigation lights don’t actually help the pilot navigate. They are used to help pilots to locate and determine the relative position of other aircraft nearby in

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February 23rd, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Aeronautics - General Knowledge, Learn To Fly | 7 comments

Airspeeds, V-Speeds, Vx, Vy, Vs0, Vs1, Va, Vno, Vfe, Vne...

Alphabet Soup Aviation Acronyms

Airspeed Limitations, Manoeuvring Speeds and Performance

Alphabet Soup?
Aviation Acronyms can seem like Alphabet Soup!

With Airspeeds and V-Speeds, there are dozens of Aviation Acronyms for the student pilot to learn and remember.

Your Aviation Acronym Decoder begins with some talk about Velocity.

V is for Velocity
Important aviation Airspeeds are identified and defined using standard terms. Scientists and Engineers refer to

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August 12th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Aeronautics - General Knowledge, Ground School, Learn To Fly | 6 comments

Six Pack - The Primary Flight Instruments

Cessna 172 Instrument Panel Six Pack

Cessna 172 Instrument Panel

Before the days of Glass Panels, this was a typical General Aviation Instrument Panel.

Even with the trend towards only Glass Cockpits, the basic Flight Instruments remain the same.

The Six Pack is not a half-dozen beers, and it’s not a well toned and muscled belly. Instead, Pilots know the 6-Pak refers to the

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March 13th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Aeronautics - General Knowledge, Ground School, Learn To Fly | 5 comments