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What is the difference between QNH and QFF?
Awarded 6 hours ago
What is the effect of wind on altimeter reading?
Awarded Dec 1 at 9:36
What is ACS on a magneto switch?
Awarded Nov 28 at 7:37
What is "Accident" on a VFR sectional?
Awarded Nov 26 at 1:16
Can you help identify this vintage aircraft?
Awarded Nov 18 at 18:42
Why are some fuel-injected engines started with the mixture at idle cut-off?
Awarded Nov 13 at 3:19
Is needing to urinate an emergency?
Awarded Nov 6 at 12:31
Is this Common carriage?
Awarded Nov 2 at 18:02
How does jet fuel not spill out upon disconnecting from the wing's intake?
Awarded Nov 1 at 0:04
Why do only turboprops have ground/flight idle selections?
Awarded Oct 20 at 21:48
What is this (possible) small jet trainer?
Awarded Oct 19 at 17:11
What type of helicopter is this?
Awarded Oct 15 at 21:11
Is there an aerodynamic reason for airship fins to be at the tail?
Awarded Oct 10 at 9:21
How does the emergency frequency work?
Awarded Oct 9 at 14:17
What may cause a strong smell of paint thinner like odor and no power to master in a Piper Warrior?
Awarded Oct 9 at 9:02
Why don’t gliders use swallow tails?
Awarded Oct 3 at 15:16
Can supersonic booms intensify as you fly longer?
Awarded Sep 30 at 5:35
Why might using flaps trip the breaker on a Cessna 172G?
Awarded Sep 25 at 16:46
How should you deal with passenger throttle interference just after take-off?
Awarded Sep 19 at 10:30
Location on the wing where obstacles least disturb airflow
Awarded Sep 13 at 13:40
Is there less vertical space for an engine under the wing of a 737 Max than for an A320neo?
Awarded Sep 11 at 11:33
What do "Secondary power supply/switch-over time" and the corresponding values in the table mean?
Awarded Sep 10 at 18:32
How do birds coordinate their turns?
Awarded Sep 7 at 17:47
What happens when all passengers jump at once?
Awarded Sep 4 at 17:33
What if I lost electricity in the night when my destination airport light need to activate by radio?
Awarded Aug 30 at 13:50
What is the temperature of the air leaving the combustion chamber of a CFM56-5C?
Awarded Aug 27 at 0:18
Private plane without a flight number - is it illegal?
Awarded Aug 24 at 19:53
Cleared straight in approach
Awarded Aug 22 at 16:31
Is there anything extra required to spin a Cessna 172 in the Utility category?
Awarded Aug 17 at 23:50
Are any Q-codes still used in aviation?
Awarded Aug 17 at 18:17
Could a jet engine theoretically ingest not only oxidizer but fuel (on planets like jupiter)
Awarded Aug 15 at 9:10
Why would a pilot request that ATC dim the runway lights?
Awarded Aug 14 at 19:31
How do water bombers pick up water?
Awarded Aug 13 at 20:55
Does Mexico City's new airport follow international regulations?
Awarded Aug 13 at 16:42
PoH says airplane climbs steeper at higher weight. Why? How?
Awarded Aug 12 at 23:41
How does the X-59 achieve low-noise supersonic flight?
Awarded Aug 10 at 12:16
What Is a "Fully Stalled" takeoff?
Awarded Aug 9 at 19:00
Identify this commercial(?) jet approaching Songshan airport in Taipei with what looks like very long inner flaps
Awarded Aug 8 at 15:55
Is the UK still part of the ECAA since Brexit?
Awarded Aug 7 at 20:30
Could a private pilot violate 'commercial' rules if there is no compensation or expense sharing at all?
Awarded Aug 4 at 18:11
What is a good sight picture for telling urban vs rural areas (wrt minimum AGL)?
Awarded Aug 2 at 21:10
What capabilities have been lost with the retirement of the F-14?
Awarded Jul 31 at 19:51
Were there any planes used in WWII that were able to shoot their own tail?
Awarded Jul 29 at 4:17
What are the advantages and disadvantages of an oblique wing over a swing wing?
Awarded Jul 28 at 15:05
Does glide ratio improve with increase in scale?
Awarded Jul 25 at 15:36
Why is ram air not used for air conditioning in airplanes?
Awarded Jul 22 at 18:46
How do bleedless passenger airliners keep cabin air breathable?
Awarded Jul 22 at 18:46
Why does the cabin pressurisation switch have a manual mode?
Awarded Jul 17 at 3:47
Why does the Ka-50 (Hokum) have coaxial rotors?
Awarded Jul 14 at 15:46
If a GPS displays the correct time, can I trust the calculated position?
Awarded Jul 14 at 4:27
How are the dry lake runways at Edwards AFB marked, and how are they maintained?
Awarded Jul 13 at 12:17
When can I start an approach if I lose comms and my clearance limit is not an initial approach fix?
Awarded Jul 8 at 23:10
Can you identify this Chicago(?) aircraft incident involving loss of control?
Awarded Jul 7 at 20:04
What does "Splitting the throttles" mean?
Awarded Jul 7 at 18:03
Why does this Curtiss Kittyhawk have a Question Mark in its squadron code?
Awarded Jul 7 at 12:01
Is the aircraft in this image real?
Awarded Jul 3 at 22:25
What is this military aircraft from the James Bond film Octopussy?
Awarded Jun 29 at 15:47
What is this tank on the wheel of a Westland Wessex HAS31B?
Awarded Jun 26 at 1:10
Why does the trailing edge have a more pronounced taper than the leading edge on the Cessna 172?
Awarded Jun 20 at 22:33
What does this hand gesture of fighter jet pilots mean?
Awarded Jun 20 at 19:32
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