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• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 3-24
  Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Glides › Gliding Turns

  landing. The pilot should plan for a steeper approach than usual. A 10 percent lead (100 feet if the descent rate is 1,000 feet per minute) factor should be sufficient to slow the descent before landing. ⦁ Second ... simulated power failure training, power should be applied as the 10 percent lead value appears on the altimeter. This allows a slow but positive power application to maintain or increase airspeed while the pilot raises the nose to stop…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 3-21
  Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Glides

  pilot should use 10 percent (100 feet in this example) as the distance above the desired level-off altitude to begin raising the nose and adding power to stop the descent and maintain airspeed. Although glides are directly related…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 5-5
  Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › Lift

  area of 100 square feet. Two major aerodynamic factors from the pilot’s viewpoint are lift and airspeed because they can be controlled readily and accurately. Of course, the pilot can also control density by adjusting the altitude ... However, for most situations, the pilot controls lift and airspeed to maneuver an aircraft. For instance, in straight-and-level flight, cruising along at a constant altitude, altitude is maintained by adjusting lift to match the aircraft’s velocity…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. G-19
  Glossary › Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum

  spite of its small horizontal scale, an intense microburst could induce windspeeds greater than 100 knots and downdrafts as strong as 6,000 feet per minute. Microwave landing system (MLS). A precision instrument approach system operating in the microwave spectrum ... conduct of military training at airspeeds in excess of 250 knots indicated airspeed (KIAS). Minimum altitude. An altitude depicted on an instrument approach chart with the altitude value underscored. Aircraft are required to maintain altitude at or above the depicted…

• Instrument Flying Handbookp. 7-60
  Chapter 7, Section II: Airplane Basic Flight Maneuvers › Instrument Takeoff

  airspeed is changing. The desired performance is to be climbing at a constant airspeed and vertical speed rate. Use the ASI as the primary instrument for the pitch indication. Once the aircraft has reached a safe altitude (approximately 100 feet ... order to maintain the desired pitch attitude. Smoothly increase the aft control pressure to compensate for the change in configuration. Anticipate the changes and increase the rate of cross-check. The airspeed tape and altitude tape increases while…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 8-5
  Chapter 8: Flight Instruments › Setting the Altimeter

  still imperative to maintain a regimented visual scan for intruding air traffic. Figure 8-4. Look at the chart using a temperature of –10 °C and an aircraft altitude of 1,000 feet above the airport elevation. The chart ... shows that the reported current altimeter setting may place the aircraft as much as 100 feet below the altitude indicated by the altimeter. When flying over high, mountainous terrain, certain atmospheric conditions cause the altimeter to indicate an altitude…