Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It’s as close to “evasive action” as you can get while flying a general aviation aircraft. In maintaining a properly coordinated steep turn, the pilot must use the opposite aileron to maintain bank. You may need to apply the opposite aileron to counter the overbanking tendency.

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Lift Aileron Drag Pilot 52

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In order to shorten development time and save costs, the aircraft featured components of two closely related aircraft of the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas: the wings, ailerons, and landing gear of aBeech Bonanza general aviation aircraft and the tail assemblyof a Beech T-34 Mentor military trainer.

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Thrust Center of Gravity Descent Cockpit 76

Pilot Institute

MARCH 17, 2025

In most general aviation settings, youre allowed to act as a safety pilot with a PPL. However, 14 CFR 91.109 says that simulated instrument training can be done in an airplane with a single throwover control wheel for the elevator and ailerons instead of dual controls for those controls.

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Pilot Pilot in Command Visual Flight Rules Airplanes 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift. In most general aviation aircraft, we tend to initiate the flare at 10 feet. Explain what aircraft input you will require to land the aircraft in the crosswind. Landing on the windward wheel.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite, Elevator forward. Ailerons: Neutral. A – Ailerons The second step in the spin recovery procedure is to move the ailerons to the neutral position. The movement of the ailerons will change the angle of attack of both wings. Ready to become a safer pilot?

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Center of Gravity Weight-Shift-Control Aileron Rudder 98

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

High camber generally promotes more airflow deflection, thanks to something called Bernoullis Principle. This is why the typical airfoil shape has a curved top and a flat bottom, especially in slower-speed general aviation aircraft. They work in opposite pairs: when one aileron goes up, the other goes down.

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Lift Thrust Torque Aileron 52

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

I’m not Lindbergh… This trip was ambitious for me, but quite common in the general aviation community. Upgraded wheel pants, flap and aileron seals, vortex generators, and a 3-bladed prop have been added. Small aircraft are designed for these kinds of flights.

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Density Altitude OAT Airplanes Fixed Base Operator 52

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

Critical Angle of Attack As the AOA increases, the wing generates more lift, but only up to a specific point known as the critical angle of attack, typically around 15-20 degrees for general aviation aircraft (though this can vary depending on the wing design). Level the wings : Use coordinated rudder and aileron inputs.

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Lift Accelerated Stall Pilot AGL 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

He was heavily involved in general aviation, so the aviation bug is genetic for me. I disassembled one top wing panel and one bottom wing panel so we could compare the existing ribs, spars, and other parts to the blueprints – other than the ailerons, they were found to be identical, so I had a full set of new spars constructed.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“A few seconds later the airplane data showed a maneuver consistent with an aileron roll followed by a rapid descent about 1,000 feet before regaining its prior altitude and track above the highway.” I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. Nevertheless, the NTSB is clear.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 92

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“A few seconds later the airplane data showed a maneuver consistent with an aileron roll followed by a rapid descent about 1,000 feet before regaining its prior altitude and track above the highway.” I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. Nevertheless, the NTSB is clear.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 91

Air Facts

AUGUST 2, 2024

This is a perspective that you just can’t get in a car and is one of the great pleasures of general aviation—you get to look out the window a lot and see the world in a new light. A few minutes later we were on the ground at the general aviation FBO. Leaving Delaware, we flew over Delaware Bay to Cape May, New Jersey.

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General Aviation Weather Pilot Cockpit 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The wing featured a laminar flow design extending to the end of its generous flaps then a more conventional design forward of the ailerons. However, its major contribution to general aviation is that it inspired an entire line of Mooney singles that have flown nearly 40 million flight hours.

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Tail Aileron Pilot Airplanes 96

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

With the introduction of the Cirrus SR22T in 2010, general aviation had a truly modern, high-flying, personal airplane that could fly at over 200 mph and make reliable long-distance travel a reality for the single-engine piston set. The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames.

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Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 85

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most commercial and general aviation aircraft are designed to be dynamically stable. The Dutch roll generally only lasts for a few oscillations and dies out fairly quickly. Pilots should avoid using the ailerons to correct the Dutch roll in small aircraft. It’s very tempting to counter the roll with ailerons.

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Stability Center of Gravity Aileron Rudder 52

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

General aviation is driven by myriad forces. Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. You can sit there with full back stick, full aileron one way and full rudder the other, and its perfectly controllable. Then theres the sales and marketing footprint. Well see about that.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The wing’s dead-smooth surface plus the tight-fitting aileron and flap brackets plus aileron gap seals give the build a professional factory look (left). One thing I did find was in a quick reversal from a steep bank right to a steep bank left I was able to stall the ailerons—it felt like a detent in the middle of the aileron travel.

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Aileron 79

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

With me in Warrior 481 were my friend Mark, who joined me for the last excursion to ORA and also sought closure from the aborted airshow, and Noah, a new student pilot with the Williamson Flying Club making his first cross country trip by general aviation aircraft. He was joined by two friends. 1917 Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny" (original).

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

said the company is the world’s largest privately owned aircraft manufacturer and was the number 1 seller of single-engine piston planes in the first quarter of 2024, according to the General Aviation Manufacturing Association (GAMA) figures. The ailerons feature a small flow-control trailing-edge flap to enhance roll control.

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Knot Rudder Airplanes Gross Weight 96