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009: Instrument Systems

We Gotta Fly

English - October 08, 2021 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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There's more to aircraft instrumentation than speed. There's altitude, heading, vertical speed, coordination and others. This episode covers what instruments we have and how they get the information they indicate. Even the most reliable and accurate instruments have some sort of error associated with them. We need to know when that can happen and how to interpret when corrections need to be applied.