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Flight instruments provide the pilot with information about the flight situation of that aircraft, such as altitude, speed and direction; and are of particular use in conditions of poor visibility, such as in clouds, when such information is not available from visual reference outside the aircraft.
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What do the green, white and yellow bands mean on an airspeed indicator?
Wikipedia has a very fine article of this subject, and by chance(?) it has the picture you posted in your question. To save the trouble of going there to check this stuff out, I've composed a simplifi …
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Understanding how Attitude Indicator works?
The extremely fast spinning gyro remains in the same orientation in space as the instrument case moves around along with the instrument panel and the whole aircraft. The difference between the orienta …
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What causes magnetic compass acceleration errors?
As it was taught to me, the acceleration errors of the magnetic compass are caused by the counterweight on the compass needle. This counterweight is installed on the needle (or dial) to keep it level …
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Please describe ram pressure in simple terms
Airspeed is basically measured by measuring the kinetic energy of the air molecules impacting dynamic pressure port (for example on a pitot tube).
The higher the velocity, the more energy, hence more …
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Why are the colors of the MiG-15's attitude indicator inverted?
This is interesting! The only lead I was able to find (so far) is this discussion thread, with a comment:
The colour becomes logical, if you see it moving.
Climbing the plane which shows the sky …
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How could "aggressor" pilots fly foreign aircraft without speaking the language?
A couple of things come to mind that enable this:
you don't become a fighter pilot if you are not intelligent and highly motivated
you are not learning a new skill, just doing what you are already …
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