Flight Instruction Tools · Binns Flight Services

Smoke-line flow around a stalled airfoil

Airfoil Flow Lab

A 2D smoke tunnel. Change the angle of attack and watch the flow separate at the stall, the wake turn turbulent, and the flow take its time reattaching on recovery. Compare airfoil shapes and flap settings, with live C_L, C_D and L/D.

Jump to Stalled wing Leading-edge stall Flaps 30°

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Engine monitor with EGT and CHT bars and mixture curves

Mixture Lab

A simulated IO-360 or IO-550 with throttle, prop and mixture. Lean rich of peak or lean of peak, try the big mixture pull, and watch the red box grow and shrink with power. CHTs respond over time, as they do in the airplane.

Jump to Lean at 8,000 ft The 25"/2500 trap Lean of peak

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View from the cockpit on final approach to Runway 7 with a PAPI

Glidepath Lab

The view on short final to KORL Runway 7. Learn to read the runway picture: high or low, and whether you're headed short or long, long before the PAPI or the ground tells you. Includes a quiz mode and a fly-it-yourself mode.

Jump to Slowly sinking low Quiz Fly it

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Handwritten pilot logbook entries with instructor signatures

Logbook Review Lab

For CFI candidates. A generated logbook and endorsements for a student about to solo or fly a first solo cross-country, or a Private, Instrument, or Commercial applicant who believes they're ready. Find the good-faith mistakes: missing pre-solo training, short cross-countries, missing full-stop landings, unauthorized solos, passengers on "solo" flights, ATD limits, and more.

Jump to Pre-solo Solo XC Private Instrument Commercial

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Classic six-pack instrument panel in a right turn

Instrument Panel Simulator

Set any flight condition and get realistic instruments for lesson plans: a classic six-pack, or a G1000-style PFD. Includes partial panel, instrument failures, compass errors, CDI and glideslope, and PNG or SVG export.

Jump to Six-pack G1000 PFD Partial panel

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Skew-T diagram with a thunderstorm illustration

Thunderstorms & the Skew-T

Step through a Skew-T Log-P diagram: dry and moist adiabats, lifting a parcel to cloud base, CAPE and the cap, and a stormy afternoon compared with a stable morning.

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