Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 13, 2025

Example of a Proper Radio Call: Minneapolis Ground, Cessna 172, N12345 at Inflight Aviation, ready to taxi to Runway 12 for departure. Struggling with Crosswind Landings The Mistake: Many student pilots struggle with crosswind landings due to incorrect rudder use or improper control inputs.

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Pilot Crosswind Final Approach Cockpit 52

Inflight Pilot Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Your instructor will introduce you to the basic components of the aircraft, including the fuselage, wings, ailerons, rudder, elevator, and landing gear. In addition to learning about the aircraft itself, you will also review airport procedures, runway markings, and basic safety guidelines.

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Approach Aileron Visual Flight Rules Rudder 52

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 Drag Rudder Descent 52

Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

When the wind is blowing across the runway instead of along it, things get more challenging. However, the wind rarely aligns perfectly with the runway. Touching down with the aircraft’s longitudinal axis aligned with the runway. If the pilot makes no corrections, the aircraft gets blown off the runway centerline.

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Crosswind Longitudinal Axis Aileron Rudder 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 98

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 little plane leapt into the air almost immediately as the wind seemingly swirled from every direction along the 5,000-foot runway. The remainder of our flight would follow U.S.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Once we were ready, we started up, and the instructor radioed the tower before taxiing to the runway. Taxiing procedures: Moving the aircraft to the runway involves steering with your feet using the rudder pedals. Ground operations Before takeoff, youll learn how to operate the aircraft on the ground.

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Rudder Descent Pilot Runway 98

Photographic Logbook

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Over the last three years, The Bear has expressed great interest in visiting Alton Bay, the only FAA-authorized ice runway in the continental United States. A very brief 2022 season for the ice runway eliminated opportunities to return that year. I pointed to the ice runway as we cleared terrain hiding it. There it is!"

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Runway Knot Weather Turbulence 89

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. There was a nice crosswind, and I demonstrated landing on a concrete expansion joint, offset from the runway centerline. Then off to the other runway for a full stop. I could tell that this had the CFI’s full attention.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 86

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The worst time to find out how the plane handles fully loaded is when it has a full complement of your loved ones, the air is gusty, the runway is short, you’re feeling only kind of OK, and stress factors are starting to get out of hand. Every now and again, planes go off the side of the runway. Why might that be? Hopefully not.

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Crosswind Aileron Runway Gross Weight 52

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With scores of planes arriving and departing en masse, Saufley’s was like a spiraling beehive, with T-34s entering a circular pattern in trail at 1,200 feet, letting down to 800 feet abeam the runway, and finally entering the downwind leg at 500 feet. I rolled wings level then brought the nose up to the horizon and pushed the power up.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I called Lawson Tower and was cleared for taxi and mid-runway takeoff on Runway 15. I then checked all the controls, elevator up and down, ailerons right and left, rudder right and left. I checked the instruments, and all were in the green. I sat for a few moments listening to the engine. I then did my run-up.

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Descent Lift Runway Cockpit 93

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

You can only begin improving the touchdown if you’ve mastered positioning your aircraft above the runway threshold correctly. For example, if you fly a high-wing aircraft such as a Cessna 172, you can use the point where the runway cuts the wing strut as a reference. See if the runway appears to move relative to the windshield.

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Descent Weight-Shift-Control Crosswind Runway 52

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Not only must you fly unnervingly slow, but you also have to pick a spot on the runway and hit it. It’s a runway that is too short for a normal takeoff or landing but still usable with certain precautions. This allows them to safely operate into and out of these tight runways. You’re not alone.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Approach Descent 52

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Control Mechanisms Airplane Controls In airplanes, pilots manage flight using three primary controls: the ailerons, elevator, and rudder. Ailerons, located on the wings, control roll by increasing lift on one wing while decreasing it on the other, allowing the aircraft to bank left or right.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability 52

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But landing it safely on the runway is a skill. Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift. If you aren’t in alignment with the runway at 500 ft or are off speed or profile, go around. Brief the runway conditions.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Add full flaps and establish recommended soft-field approach speed on final, approximately 1/2 mile from the runway. Adjust pitch and power for the desired airspeed and approach angle.The approach should be stabilized on the extended runway centerline no lower than 300’ AGL.

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Approach Ground Effect Final Approach Airplanes 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.

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Runway Wind Shear Crosswind Ceiling 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

While instructors idly watch, airplanes go off the runway, landings become too harsh, structure gets overstressed, and tolerances are exceeded. No flying in winds exceeding 10 knots, no chance of obscuring precipitation, no use of runways shorter than 5,000 feet, no risk of encountering darkness or lowering ceilings.

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Runway Wind Shear Crosswind Ceiling 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 98

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 Airplanes 75

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Naming it Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome (ORA), Palen built a turf runway and got those old airplanes flying again. Unfortunately, that airshow was cut short by a landing accident ending with a bruised pilot and a Fleet Model 1 biplane on its back in the middle of ORA's turf runway. Over time, he built an extensive flying menagerie.

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The aircraft was steered using traditional flight controls like rudders and ailerons, and pilots could adjust engine power to manage direction during water operations. It still remained active in the Far East where large runways were scarce.

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Center of Gravity Tail Lift Aileron 52

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Although it is sort of heavy on the ailerons,” Storo said. At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off. You just make one great big U-turn, that way you can kind of watch the runway the whole time. It’s the rudder that is doing everything.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. But you can see the change to separate ailerons and flaps is just one part of preparing the F2 to grow into a four-place airplanebuying aerodynamic benefits now to spend later on a heavier, more powerful model. Out back, theres an entirely new tail.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The ailerons feature a small flow-control trailing-edge flap to enhance roll control. The jaunty vertical fin and rudder enhance the fuselage lines, fitted with a fixed trim tab and aft position light. Baron told us to lift the nose at 50 knots, which proved correct for a takeoff about 900 feet down the runway.

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Knot Airplanes Rudder Gross Weight 97