High density altitude, influenced by elevation, temperature, and humidity, severely degrades aircraft performance by increasing takeoff/landing distances, reducing climb rates, and decreasing engine ...

Is there a plug and chug way to do it if I know my barometric pressure, temp, and altitude? I need to get it everyday before I have a flying lesson. I hate using that round slide-rule flight computer ...

The E6B flight computer is a mechanical slide rule used by pilots for essential calculations such as groundspeed, time, distance, fuel burn, and density altitude by aligning values on its circular ...

Let's take a trip back to private pilot training for a moment. Do you remember your instructor trying to explain density altitude? At first, it probably sounded like an abstract concept buried ...

Has density altitude affected your flight plans recently? Do you plan for it when you create those summertime flight plans? I ask because as I write this column Seattle is under a heat advisory.

Despite what extraordinarily overpowered quadcopters suggest, the air pressure of whatever a flying machine flys at is extremely important. Pressure is dependent on altitude and temperature, and there ...