The phrase "airspeed down" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in aviation contexts to indicate a decrease in the speed of an aircraft relative to the air around it.
Example: "The pilot announced that the airspeed down was necessary to prepare for landing."
Alternatives: "reduce airspeed" or "decrease airspeed."
A couple feet before the edge of the runway, pull the power back to idle and gently flare to lose airspeed and touch down on the numbers.
He lowered the nose slightly and then, pulling back on the stick in the last few seconds before touching down, his airspeed spent, remarked coolly to Skiles, "Got any ideas?" "Actually not," Skiles said.
Then the stick pusher came on, a system that literally takes matters out of the pilots' hands by pushing the yoke forward, to push the nose down and increase airspeed to avoid stall.
The "stick pusher" did come on, literally taking matters out of the pilots' hands by pushing the yoke forward, to get the nose down and increase airspeed to avoid stall.
Closer examination of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder from the plane, a twin-engine turboprop Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, shows that 26 seconds before the recordings were stopped by the impact, a warning alerted the crew that the plane might lose lift and fall out of the sky, and an automatic system tried to push the nose down to gain airspeed.
"When the nose of your airplane goes down, to maintain constant airspeed and not accelerate, you always pull off power," Mr. Vogt said.
Use the Yoke to adjust nose-up and nose-down (pitch) to set the airspeed; do not use the throttle to adjust airspeed.
Based on roughly 1,300 pieces of newly recovered data, including the pilots' final conversations, the report confirmed suspicions that a loss of consistent speed readings, probably a result of icing of the plane's airspeed sensors, set off the chain of events that brought down Flight 447 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
The nose of the airplane will tend to yaw quite a bit, control all yaw with rudder, and absolutely no aileron control, ailerons always neutral! Slowly ease the nose down to break the stall and start gaining airspeed.
If the airspeed is decreasing, gently push the nose down to increase the speed.
