Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The primary flight controls on the DC-10 (ailerons, rudder, elevators, spoilers) were all operated by hydraulic pressure and the first officer was quick to realize that his controls were unresponsive to his inputs. On checking the hydraulic fluid pressure and quantity gauges, he noticed that they all read zero.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 294

Flight Training Central

MARCH 4, 2024

The bank angle should be reduced gradually with coordinated aileron and rudder input. The pilot should roll the airplane into a medium-banked turn with coordinated aileron and rudder input. Enter the rectangular course maneuvers on a 45 degree angle to the downwind leg.

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Groundspeed Crosswind Aileron Rudder 52

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Other causes include: Uncoordinated turns : This happens when the rudder and aileron are not properly aligned during a turn. Once the aircrafts nose is lowered, the next step is to apply opposite rudder to counteract the rotational force. Training focuses on recognizing when aileron input can cause further instability.

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Rudder Aileron Pilot Turbulence 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2024

After a thorough ground briefing, on the first power-on stall flight with a student, after clearing the air, I would have the learner do a stall with too much right rudder, enough that the ball was out one width. The next stall would be performed with no rudder. Not surprisingly, the Cessna 150 would break to the right.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Aileron 62

Northstar VFR

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Just remember the acronym PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite of the spin, and Elevator forward. Recovery from a spin is a guaranteed subject to come up on your private pilot checkride. So how do you recover from a spin?

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Pilot Checkride Aileron Final Approach 75

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Below are other critical pieces of the wings that help give the plane additional lift, reduce drag, or achieve lower speeds in preparation for landing: Ailerons: A French word meaning “fin” or “little wing,” the aileron helps control the airplane’s roll. What are the basic parts of this section?

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

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. They are all a part of the pilot and he is a part of them.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

To correct a Dutch roll, pilots should apply opposite rudder to the yaw direction to help dampen the motion. Once the yaw dampens, gradually reduce rudder input to neutral. 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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The breakup started with rudder flutter. The pilot died instantly.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 68

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

Level the wings : Use coordinated rudder and aileron inputs. This is a stall recovery procedure that is effective in most scenarios: Reduce the angle of attack : Push forward on the control yoke. Apply full power: Increase the throttle to full.

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Lift Accelerated Stall Pilot AGL 98

Pilot Institute

MAY 9, 2024

We correct for the overbanking tendency with aileron opposite 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. We counteract adverse yaw by applying rudder in the direction of the turn.

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Rudder Lift Aileron Drag 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. I did my first aileron roll in an RV-4. The breakup started with rudder flutter. The pilot died instantly.

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True Airspeed Indicated Airspeed Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron 65

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The fuselage panels were composed of aluminum and the outer wings, main spar, armament bays, ailerons, elevators and rudders featured fabric as their skinning. The seatbacks observed during the flight were rectified and this low-wing monoplane was soon popularized for its inverted gull appearance and large fuselage. m Length 10.26

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Aileron Rudder Ceiling Tail 98

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. Ailerons, located on the wings, control the plane’s roll. The rudder, also on the tail, adjusts yaw, which affects left and right turns.

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Aileron Rudder Drag Descent 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Additional equipment includes electric pitch trim, rudder trim, Flightcom six-place intercom, cabin ventilation fan, auxiliary power receptacle, and aileron gap seals.

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Transponder Aileron Rudder Stability 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Sometimes it seems that planes go off the side of the runway in a crosswind landing because the pilot did not use full aileron deflection to counter the crosswind. Quite possibly because the pilot had never used full aileron deflection in flight and either didn’t know how much was available or was afraid to use all of it.

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Crosswind Aileron Runway Gross Weight 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Anyone who bothered to look up from the farms, corn fields and cotton fields east of Mobile Bay could watch students meld aerodynamic theory with stick and rudder practice. Pitched nearly straight up with no ground reference, we were taught to tilt our heads back looking for the nearest horizon and push in full rudder in that direction.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Common mistakes include neglecting clearing turns, delaying stall recovery, and misusing the rudder. As you increase the throttle, anticipate the need to add more right rudder. To fight this overbanking tendency, add light aileron pressure in the opposite direction. Use the rudder to stay coordinated. What Is Slow Flight?

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Lift Rudder Drag AGL 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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. Adverse Yaw Adverse yaw is when an aircraft tends to yaw towards a raised wing due to the aerodynamic forces of an aileron deflected down.

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Lift Aileron Drag Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle. The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 82

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Giant ailerons could whip the world around me with a 400-degree roll rate, and the thing would tolerate plus or minus 10 Gs, breaking yours truly long before any structure failed. I gave up and fired with all available firepower: “I taught your school’s owner how to do an aileron roll in 2003.” Here’s the thing.

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Aileron Rudder Airplanes Pilot 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The 172 has a steerable nosewheel, much heavier than the rudders on my RV-9A with a castering nosewheel. Not really a problem, as the CFI and I had a great chat for an hour about things aeronautical. A week later it was off into the blue with new Garmin radios in the elderly airframe.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 59

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At this time, it should be gently lowered.Maintain directional control and crosswind correction with appropriate rudder aileron input. Maintain back pressure on the yoke to keep the nosewheel off the ground until it can no longer aerodynamically be held off of the field surface.

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Approach Ground Effect Final Approach Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Like most homebuilts and many SLSAs, the RV-12 steers on the ground via differential braking, but the good-sized rudder does contribute if you have a bit of wind. On the walkaround, you doubtlessly noted the full-span flaperons (flaps plus ailerons as one unit). Right until liftoff, takeoffs are fairly uneventful.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 84

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

He replaced the two-cylinder, horizontally opposed Detroit Aero 25hp engine with a three-cylinder Szekely SR-3 45-hp radial engine, and in 1935, he changed out the wooden fuselage frame for a tubular steel one, and removed the pulleys and cables for wing warping and added ailerons to the wings.

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Airplanes Jet Pilot Weather 105

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The X-4 had no horizontal stabilizer in order to avoid interaction of shockwaves between the wings but had a vertical stabilizer and rudder.

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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Rudder 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The modifications included replacing the single fin and rudder with a twin-tail design to improve stability. A particularly harrowing incident occurred during a test flight in March 1934 when the ailerons tore off one of the prototypes mid-flight. Despite these efforts, the problems persisted.

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Weight-Shift-Control Aviation Technology Aileron Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

It’s tempting to increase the bank angle and add some rudder to rotate the aircraft. Use the rudder pedals to maintain centerline. Keep the ailerons into the wind. Anticipate the wind and stay sharp on the rudder. Make sure the rudder and brake pedals are still within reach! Try to stay ahead of the aircraft.

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Descent Weight-Shift-Control Crosswind Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I then checked all the controls, elevator up and down, ailerons right and left, rudder right and left. Turning back to Lawson, I looked around the cockpit and checked the instruments for anything out of order. They all seemed to be working fine, but the plane just did not feel right. Maybe it was just my adrenaline.

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Descent Lift Runway Cockpit 65

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Like most homebuilts and many SLSAs, the RV-12 steers on the ground via differential braking, but the good-sized rudder does contribute if you have a bit of wind. On the walkaround, you doubtlessly noted the full-span flaperons (flaps plus ailerons as one unit). Right until liftoff, takeoffs are fairly uneventful.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 76

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. Make sure to brief which way the aircraft will yaw, and which rudder you will use to counteract it. Explain what aircraft input you will require to land the aircraft in the crosswind.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Use the rudder to keep the aircraft in line with the runway and apply aileron into the wind. You will need more aileron input as you slow down as the controls become less effective. These stick and rudder skills will help you with crosswind landings. The aircraft may drift off the runway without the correct control input.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Approach Crosswind 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By doing so, a recognizable, firm input demonstrates that using all the aileron travel wasn’t the answer—those rudder pedals are not footrests.

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Runway Wind Shear Crosswind Ceiling 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By doing so, a recognizable, firm input demonstrates that using all the aileron travel wasn’t the answer—those rudder pedals are not footrests.

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Runway Wind Shear Crosswind Ceiling 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2024

The lack of airflow over the ailerons results in a loss of control authority and mushy and ineffective controls. This requires rudder input to maintain directional control. Poor Control Feel When the aircraft approaches a stall, the boundary layer separates from the wing. This applies to the elevator as well.

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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Lift 52

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

However, with the reorganization of the layout of the museum’s hangar, the outer wing panels, flaps and ailerons, which were finished in the museum’s restoration workshop, were finally fitted back onto the Caproni, which was also moved to another spot in the hangar as part of the new aircraft layout.

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Aileron Tail Horizontal Stabilizer Cockpit 122

Air Facts

JUNE 21, 2024

I let him have the controls again, my hands approximately one-sixteenth of an inch away away from the yoke, my feet surreptitiously on the rudders. I don’t think he knew what the ailerons or rudder did. Aileron into the wind, rudder to straighten the nose” also bounced off his doctoral noggin. I looked at him.

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Rudder Crosswind Knot Aileron 75