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• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. G-33
  Glossary › Pilot’s Operating Handbook/Airplane Flight Manual

  accurately present the heading of the aircraft. The design uses eddy current damping to minimize lead and lag during turns. Vertical speed indicator (VSI). A rate-of-pressure change instrument that gives an indication of any deviation from a constant ... vertical axis. Also called yawing or directional stability. Very-high frequency (VHF). A band of radio frequencies falling between 30 and 300 MHz. Very-high frequency omnidirectional range (VOR). Electronic navigation equipment in which the flight deck instrument identifies…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. G-17
  Glossary › Numbers and Symbols

  magnetic compass that consists of an azimuth on a vertical card, resembling a heading indicator with a fixed miniature airplane to accurately present the heading of the aircraft. The design uses eddy current damping to minimize lead and lag during ... turns. Vertical speed indicator (VSI). An instrument that uses static pressure to display a rate of climb or descent in feet per minute. The VSI can also sometimes be called a vertical velocity indicator (VVI). Vertical stability. Stability about…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 16-32
  Chapter 16: Navigation › Ground-Based Navigation › VFR Use of GPS

  pilot, care must be exercised to ensure that system capabilities are not exceeded. Types of receivers used for GPS navigation under VFR are varied from a full IFR installation being used to support a VFR flight to a VFR only ... limitations of each type of receiver installation or use must be understood by the pilot to avoid misusing navigation information. In all cases, VFR pilots should never rely solely on one system of navigation. GPS navigation must be integrated with…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 17-7
  Chapter 17: Aeromedical Factors › Health and Physiological Factors Affecting Pilot Performance › Vestibular Illusions

  care when retrieving charts and other objects in the flight deck—if something is dropped, retrieve it with minimal head movement and be alert for the coriolis illusion. Graveyard Spiral As in other illusions, a pilot in a prolonged coordinated ... constant-rate turn may experience the illusion of not turning. During the recovery to level flight, the pilot will then experience the sensation of turning in the opposite direction causing the disoriented pilot to return the aircraft to its original…

• Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledgep. 16-13
  Chapter 16: Navigation › Dead Reckoning › Wind Triangle or Vector Analysis

  Dead Reckoning Dead reckoning is navigation solely by means of computations based on time, airspeed, distance, and direction. The products derived from these variables, when adjusted by wind speed and velocity, are heading and GS. The predicted heading takes ... destination. Except for flights over water, dead reckoning is usually used with pilotage for cross-country flying. The heading and GS, as calculated, is constantly monitored and corrected by pilotage as observed from checkpoints. Wind Triangle or Vector Analysis…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 7-7
  Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Turns Around a Point

  bank angle during turns to correct for groundspeed changes in order to maintain a constant radius turn—steeper bank angles for higher ground speeds, shallow bank angles for slower groundspeeds. ⦁ Improving competency in managing the quickly-changing bank angles. ⦁ Establishing ... Developing the ability to compensate for drift in quickly-changing orientations. ⦁ Developing further awareness that the radius of a turn is correlated to the bank angle. To perform a turn around a point, the pilot needs to complete at least…