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What Is Ground Effect?

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Your wings don’t create as much drag as they would at higher altitudes, which gives you extra lift. Key Takeaways Ground effect increases an aircraft’s lift and decreases drag. Lift increases due to the high-pressure area created by the compressed air beneath the wings. It’s not magic—it’s ground effect.

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How to Make Perfect Steep Turns (Step-By-Step)

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A smaller bank angle will result in more lift, while an increased bank angle will reduce the lift. As an aircraft banks, lift is divided into horizontal and vertical components. The horizontal component of lift causes the aircraft to turn. Combining both components of lift, the total lift required increases.

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How to Master Slow Flight (Step-By-Step)

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Lift : The aerodynamic force generated due to airflow over the wings. Drag : The aerodynamic force opposing the aircraft’s forward motion. The aircraft’s deceleration reduces the airflow over the wings, which reduces lift. When the lift force is less than the force of gravity, the aircraft descends. Why does this happen?

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How to Fly Perfect Lazy Eights

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The higher speed creates extra lift, causing the airplane to bank further into the turn. The aileron on the right wing deflects down, increasing the camber and creating more lift. The left wing’s aileron deflects up, decreasing lift. The lift imbalance causes the roll. This drag imbalance amplifies the adverse yaw.

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Power-off Stall: Recovery Steps Made Easy

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This can cause you to lose lift. Remember Bernoulli’s Theorem and how lift is created. The loss of lift causes the aircraft to stall and lose altitude. When the aircraft is in a high-drag configuration, a stall at a low altitude can be quite dangerous. Without a quick reaction, it can lead to a dangerous situation.

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Power-on Stall: How to Recover

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This creates boundary layer separation, resulting in a loss of lift. While takeoff flaps improve performance, they also add unwanted drag. Be careful because retracting the flaps causes the center of the lift to move forward. Furthermore, you must immediately remove one notch of the flaps to reduce the wing’s drag.

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How to Make a Perfect Soft Field Landing Every Time

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However, the increased drag might make it impossible to take off again. If you’re not stabilized at 200 feet AGL, go around. On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. This does two things: it keeps the load on the wings and increases drag.

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