Flight Instruments

Flight instruments are aircraft gauges that supply a pilot with critical information about the flight situation of an airplane, such as heigth off the ground, flight speed and attitude readings. Flight instruments are extremely helpful when the weather is bad or a pilots vision is impaired due to mother nature.

Flight instruments may also be referred to the following terms but they all have the same meaning:

• Aircraft Instruments
• Avionics
• Aircraft  Avionics
• Avionic Instruments

Flight Instruments are the gauges on an airplane that a pilot uses to navigate his path the same way one would in an automobile. Flight Instruments are the only means of vision and geographic coordinates that a pilot may have at times, so it is extremely important that flight Instruments be dead nuts accurate. For this reason flight instruments must be manufactured according to FAA guidelines and each instrument is certified and traceable.

To learn more about the different types of Flight Instruments on an aircraft, please navigate the menu to learn more about each type of Flight Instrument.