World Airline News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board Thursday issued urgent safety recommendations to The Boeing Company and the Federal Aviation Administration in response to the potential for a jammed or restricted rudder control system on some 737 airplanes. The NTSB is investigating a Feb.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A flat spin is a thrilling (and potentially dangerous) flight phenomenon that pilots must prepare for. In reality, flat spins can challenge even experienced pilots, making it important for you to understand what they are and how to handle them. Ready to become a safer pilot? Rudder: Full opposite input to the spin direction.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the case of certain passengers, a flight may represent the first time they have ever been onboard an airplane, generating feelings of excitement and trepidation in equal measure about what may lie ahead. Once this message is conveyed to the pilots, they disengage the aircraft’s parking brake, hence the ‘ wobble ’.

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Northstar VFR

DECEMBER 22, 2024

By Josh Page, CFI The private pilot practical test is the finish line to getting your private pilot certificate and being able to fly as a licensed pilot. Lets look at four common private pilot oral exam questions and see how you can ace them! So how do you recover from a spin? So how do you recover from a spin?

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Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With just sixteen airworthy examples, the Douglas A-26 Invader is not the most numerous warbird out there, which means qualified pilots are equally rare. However, among that small cadre, there is one pilot, Stephen Swift, who has four (approximately 38% of the population) of the world’s flying Invaders in his logbook. Imagine that.

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Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

It felt like pushing it for that airplane, but checkrides are so hard to schedule I went. Several times I’ve landed smoothly in a strong crosswind, then had trouble keeping the airplane on the runway. Just because you landed once or twice in some tiny airplane in a crazy wind, does not mean you could succeed every time.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Landing an airplane can be one of the most nerve-wracking tasks for a student pilot. Getting an airplane to fly is easy. As a pilot, you will need time to master it. A pilot must consider several things before landing. An IFR pilot will run the GUMPS checklist before passing the final approach fix.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you’re looking for a first airplane that’s economical to own, easy to fly, and perfectly suited to bopping around for fun on nice weekends, it’s tough to beat the legendary Cessna 150. This example received a sharp repaint in 2015, an improvement that can easily cost $25,000—or half the asking price of this entire airplane.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Multiple Cessna 172RGs made me a better pilot Air Facts Journal Experience makes you a better and safer pilot. This is my early experience path to improvement as a pilot and it has made me safer and more confident. In 1998, I joined a venerable flying club, Stick and Rudder Flying Club of Waukegan National Airport (KUGN).

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Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. The Cessna 180’s conventional landing gear and squared-off “straight” vertical fin and rudder give it a distinctive vintage silhouette that many pilots find attractive.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 21, 2024

To help pilots avoid stalls, the FAA, in concert with all the king’s horses and men, rewrote the requirements for private pilot training, including stalls. Unless there are unusual gust conditions, stalls occur because the pilot pulls back too hard on the wheel or stick. The next stall would be performed with no rudder.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 9, 2024

While the original Ercoupes lacked a rudder and rudder pedals entirely, this example has had them installed as an aftermarket kit, making the airplane a bit more familiar for newcomers to fly. Despite its age, this is an airplane with plenty of life left. Remarkably, this Ercoupe includes all logs since new.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The 26-year-old pilot was the plane’s only occupant and was pronounced dead by first responders at 12:06 p.m. The pilot, a homebuilder with a young family, had landed at 11:11 a.m. The pilot, a homebuilder with a young family, had landed at 11:11 a.m. The pilot soloed when he was 16 and had around 920 total flying hours.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The many analyses and videos on these topics have been done in what can best be described as laboratory conditions—carefully selected ideal conditions of pilot, airplane, and environment. None of these achieved enough altitude to have permitted a successful impossible turn, but there were pilots who tried, anyway.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

All signs indicate the airplane has been cared for in a thoughtful, meticulous manner. Inside, the Cub transports the pilot backward in time more quickly than it does forward, through the air. The post Bargain Buys on AircraftForSale: 1946 Piper J-3 Cub appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

It can also be dangerous when the learner drops the airplane to fly the checklist or radio, so practice in the ATD is often a good way to learn procedures, as the ATD is a CFI-controlled environment. To get the most out of the scenario, the learner should use the same procedures in the airplane. It’s an ATD.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. The Stipa-Caproni prototype proudly showcased its Italian origin in a blue-and-cream color used on racing aircraft of the day, with Italian flag colors painted on the rudder.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The pilot died instantly. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. I think there are only about 150 hours on it,” he said when asked about the plane and pilot. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Sometimes it’s emotional—the Beech Starship, what few of them are still in the wild, inevitably wow viewers of both the pilot and nonpilot persuasion. How did any given airplane sell? However, the airplane must be completed in a way that it conforms exactly to the SLSA example, of which there must be one for an ELSA to exist.

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Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

I want it because I want to travel through time and I want to fly a difficult airplane and I want to feel the wind when I fly and I want people to look, to see, to know that glory still exists. “While I still owned the Fairchild, the son of a previous owner – Scott Gupton – reached out to me to share the airplane’s history.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The pilot died instantly. Alongside a nearby highway, some recognizable bits of airplane, the vertical stabilizer and rudder, a horizontal stabilizer and elevator, fell separately to Earth. I think there are only about 150 hours on it,” he said when asked about the plane and pilot. The pilot learned to fly in the U.S.

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AV Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Autoweek is reporting that Nikita Ermoshkin, a former SpaceX engineer hopes to roll out a modified Sling TSi in which electronics look after keeping the airplane in the flight envelope. The big reason flying is dangerous is because there’s only one pilot in the plane and that pilot is a huge single point of failure,” said Ermoshkin. “The

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Air Facts

MAY 24, 2024

As I went through the preflight inspection, my wife strapped my daughter into the car seat and climbed into the airplane herself. With a little forward pressure on the yoke, I was able to keep the airplane on the runway to continue picking up airspeed as we arrived at my target of 60 knots for takeoff.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

What stupid airplane antics have I recently participated in that would warrant the query? My name is Andrew, and I used to fly that airplane in the early 2000s. Its a great airplane. Both of us had neighbors who owned airplanes and took us flying when we were not yet teens. I find myself staring at the phone in disbelief.

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Air Facts

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Today, those pilots are mostly long gone, and while there are a lot of us around who were trained by them, I cannot help but look at today’s flight training environment and find that it is sorely lacking in overall experience. There aren’t many pilots today, younger than age 50, anyway, who can do that I would imagine.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The 26-year-old pilot was the plane’s only occupant and was pronounced dead by first responders at 12:06 p.m. The pilot, a homebuilder with a young family, had landed at 11:11 a.m. The pilot, a homebuilder with a young family, had landed at 11:11 a.m. The pilot soloed when he was 16 and had around 920 total flying hours.

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Jetwhine

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Each year for as long as I can remember, Sporty’s Pilot Shop has sent its annual crystal airplane ornament with the Christmas card it sends to members of the aviation media. The Champ was one of the few taildragger airplanes that could be flown solo from the front seat, which greatly improved the visibility for the pilot in command.

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Jetwhine

MARCH 18, 2024

In a series of back-and-forth voicemails and texts we defined “harder” and “complicated” as a pilot’s fundamental stick-and-rudder inputs needed for a safe flight. It took some time to explain why airline pilots have an easier time flying than those flying prop planes like ag aircraft. Scott Spangler, Editor

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 4, 2024

The airplane will be flown at 1,000’ AGL parallel to and at an equal distance from the field boundaries – about ½ – ¾ miles from the boundary as you would fly a traffic pattern. As the airplane turns onto the following base leg, the tailwind will decrease and becomes a crosswind.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

That’s called “adverse yaw”, it’s a sneaky little quirk of flying that every pilot has to learn how to manage. A pilot can prevent adverse yaw by using rudder, and making sure that a turn is coordinated. In this situation, you must add the right rudder to correct for adverse yaw. Uh oh, what just happened?

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Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

In other words, it’s more than just jumping into an airplane and learning stick-and-rudder skills. Despite my background as a research meteorologist, my aviation weather background was limited when I was a student pilot. Second, as a student pilot, plan to get your weather guidance from a single and reliable source.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

You’ve just passed your private pilot check ride. Part of being a good pilot is recognizing that sometimes our eyes are bigger than our skill set. If you’re stepping up from a slower airplane, beware of falling behind the aircraft. That said, with solid instruction flying a Cub is well within reach for a newer private pilot.

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Pilot Institute

APRIL 5, 2024

Landing an airplane is not easy, even for experienced pilots. Why Crosswind Landings Aren’t Easy Ideally, pilots want the wind to hit the aircraft dead on the nose while landing. If the pilot makes no corrections, the aircraft gets blown off the runway centerline. Many pilots de-crab right before touchdown.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

Is it to perfect the maneuver for the next check ride, learn how to recover the airplane after an inadvertent stall, or just avoid the whole thing in the first place? The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s (AOPA) Air Safety Institute has published an excellent report titled, “ Stall and Spin Accidents: Keep the Wings Flying.”

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Sometimes it’s emotional—the Beech Starship, what few of them are still in the wild, inevitably wow viewers of both the pilot and nonpilot persuasion. How did any given airplane sell? However, the airplane must be completed in a way that it conforms exactly to the SLSA example, of which there must be one for an ELSA to exist.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Robert Buck, whose books North Star Over My Shoulder and Weather Flying should be required reading yearly for pilots, pointed out that in his career, which spanned from World War II to retiring as a 747 captain, he could usually size up a fellow pilot’s abilities before they even got airborne.

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Pilot Institute

MAY 9, 2024

Despite the easygoing name, many pilots find lazy eights harder than they thought. There’s a reason why it’s been a commercial pilot practical test staple for decades. If you’re about to begin your commercial pilot journey, you’ve come to the right place! Let’s get started.

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