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

Pilot Institute

This is often the clean configuration at max gross weight. To fight this overbanking tendency, add light aileron pressure in the opposite direction. Not Maintaining Heading Once you’ve practiced slow flight a few times, you’ll realize just how ineffective the ailerons are. Pilots use reference stalling speeds instead.

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

But I have maintained 5000 feet at 6000 pounds gross weight,” notes Ross. 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). Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We