Speed can be measured in different ways: airspeed is the speed of air passing through a passage; groundspeed is an aircraft's speed relative to the ground; relative speed is the change in position between two objects. There are several types of airspeed: indicated airspeed (IAS) is measured by a pitot-static system without corrections; calibrated airspeed (CAS) corrects IAS for instrument error; equivalent airspeed (EAS) corrects CAS for air density; and true airspeed (TAS) is the airspeed relative to the airmass and corrects EAS for air density based on temperature and pressure. Mach number is the ratio of true airspeed to the speed of sound in the