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Aircraft Basic Flight Instruments Guide

Flight instruments provide pilots with crucial data about the aircraft's flight situation. They are classified by the job they perform into flight, engine, and navigation instruments. The main working systems are pitot-static for airspeed and altitude measurements, compass for direction, gyroscopes for attitude, and navigational aids. The six basic flight instruments established in 1937 as essential for instrument flight are the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, turn coordinator, heading indicator, and vertical speed indicator, typically arranged in a "basic-T" on the instrument panel. Modern glass cockpits display the same information digitally in an analog instrument graphical format.

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Aircraft Basic Flight Instruments Guide

Flight instruments provide pilots with crucial data about the aircraft's flight situation. They are classified by the job they perform into flight, engine, and navigation instruments. The main working systems are pitot-static for airspeed and altitude measurements, compass for direction, gyroscopes for attitude, and navigational aids. The six basic flight instruments established in 1937 as essential for instrument flight are the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, turn coordinator, heading indicator, and vertical speed indicator, typically arranged in a "basic-T" on the instrument panel. Modern glass cockpits display the same information digitally in an analog instrument graphical format.

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Aircraft General

Knowledge
Session 19
Aircraft Basic Flight Instruments
Aircraft Flight Instruments

Flight instruments are the


instruments in the cockpit of an
aircraft that provide the pilot with
data about the flight situation of
that aircraft, such as altitude,
airspeed, vertical speed, heading
and much more other crucial
information in flight
Aircraft Flight Instruments
CLASSIFICATION
OF FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS
There are three basic kinds of
instruments classified by
the job they perform
Aircraft Flight Instruments
CLASSIFICATION
OF FLIGHT Job they Perform
INSTRUMENTS
▪  Flight instruments
▪ Engine instruments
▪ Navigation instruments
Aircraft Flight Instruments
CLASSIFICATION
OF FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS
There are also miscellaneous
gauges and indicators that
provide information that do not
fall into these classifications,
especially on large complex
aircraft
Aircraft Flight Instruments
WORKING SYSTEMS
OF FLIGHT ▪ Pitot-static systems
INSTRUMENTS
▪ Compass systems
▪ Gyroscopic systems
▪ Navigational systems
Aircraft Flight Instruments
WORKING SYSTEMS
OF FLIGHT Pitot-static Systems
INSTRUMENTS
– Altimeter
– Airspeed indicator
– Vertical speed indicator
Aircraft Flight Instruments
WORKING SYSTEMS
OF FLIGHT Compass Systems
INSTRUMENTS
– Magnetic compass
Aircraft Flight Instruments
WORKING SYSTEMS
OF FLIGHT Gyroscopic Systems
INSTRUMENTS
– Attitude Indicator
– Heading indicator
– Turn indicator
Aircraft Flight Instruments
WORKING SYSTEMS
OF FLIGHT Navigational Systems
INSTRUMENTS
▪ Horizontal Situation Indicator
HSI
– VOR
– NDB
– TACAN
Aircraft Flight Instruments
BASIC
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS History
▪ In 1929, Jimmy Doolittle
became the first pilot to take
off, fly and land an airplane
using instruments alone,
without a view outside the
cockpit
Aircraft Flight Instruments
BASIC ▪ In 1937, the British  (RAF)
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS chose a set of six essential
flight instruments which would
remain the standard panel
used for flying in Instrument
Meteorological Conditions
▪ (IMC) for the next 20 years
Aircraft Flight Instruments
BASIC
FLIGHT Six Basic Instruments
INSTRUMENTS
▪ airspeed indicator
▪ attitude indicator
▪ altimeter
▪ turn coordinator
▪ heading indicator
▪ vertical speed indicator
Aircraft Flight Instruments
BASIC
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS

Six basic
instruments in
an airplane are
typically
arranged in a
"basic-T"
Aircraft Flight Instruments
BASIC
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS

The way of
displaying them
has changed
over time,
though.
Aircraft Flight Instruments
BASIC
FLIGHT
INSTRUMENTS

In glass cockpits the


flight instruments are
shown on monitors.
But the display is not
shown by numbers,
but as images of
analog instruments.
QUESTIONS ?

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