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• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 8-6
  Chapter 8: Flight Instruments › Types of Altitude

  plane where air pressure (corrected to 15 °C) equals 29.92 "Hg. Pressure altitude is used to compute density altitude, true altitude, true airspeed (TAS), and other performance data. 5. Density altitude—pressure altitude corrected for variations from standard temperature. When…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. G-12
  Glossary › Numbers and Symbols

  spot in the combustion chamber igniting the fuel/air mixture. Pressure altitude. The altitude indicated when the altimeter setting window (barometric scale) is adjusted to 29.92. This is the altitude above the standard datum plane, which is a theoretical ... plane where air pressure (corrected to 15 ºC) equals 29.92 "Hg. Pressure altitude is used to compute density altitude, true altitude, true airspeed, and other performance data. Profile drag. The total of the skin friction drag and form drag…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 8-9
  Chapter 8: Flight Instruments › Instrument Check › Airspeed Indicator (ASI)

  same. Refer to the airspeed calibration chart to correct for possible airspeed errors. • True airspeed (TAS)—CAS corrected for altitude and nonstandard temperature. Because air density decreases with an increase in altitude, an aircraft has to be flown faster…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 5-4
  Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › Lift

  avoided. All other factors being constant, for every AOA there is a corresponding airspeed required to maintain altitude in steady, unaccelerated flight (true only if maintaining level flight). Since an airfoil always stalls at the same AOA, if increasing weight ... half the density of air at sea level. In order to maintain its lift at a higher altitude, an aircraft must fly at a greater true airspeed for any given AOA. Warm air is less dense than cool…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 5-45
  Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › High Speed Flight › Mach Number Versus Airspeed

  understand how airspeed varies with Mach number. As an example, consider how the stall speed of a jet transport aircraft varies with an increase in altitude. The increase in altitude results in a corresponding drop in air density and outside ... same for our purposes, both the Mach number and TAS have increased. With increasing altitude, the air density has decreased; this requires a faster true airspeed in order to have the same pressure sensed by the pitot tube…

• Aviation Weather Handbookp. 8-14
  8 Atmospheric Pressure and Altimetry › 8.4.1 Altitude › 8.4.1.5 Density Altitude

  high-density altitude on the airspeed indicator. The aircraft lifts off, climbs, cruises, glides, and lands at the prescribed indicated airspeeds; but at a specified indicated airspeed, the pilot’s true airspeed and groundspeed increase proportionally as density altitude becomes ... true airspeed, and, therefore, covers more distance in a given time, which means climbing at a shallower angle. Adding to this are the problems of reduced power and rate of climb. Figure 8-15 shows the effect of density altitude…