Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

This system includes modes for: roll pitch heading vertical speed altitude hold approach These modes allow for a steady rate of descent, ascent, and consistent speed and altitude ranges. However, the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 paved the way for its return, and production resumed in 1996.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 98

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cirrus Approach Access all your Cirrus airframe and avionics training courses in one easy-to-use mobile platform. Civil Twilight This is a robust guide to sun and moon data for pilots and aviation enthusiasts. WeatherSpork Another weather app, but with a unique approach.

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Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes 91

Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

Other logbook entries weave a story of the experiences only general aviation can bring. Other logbook entries weave a story of the experiences only general aviation can bring: Renting an old Luscombe to save money only to find out she was there to teach me how to be gentle on the stick. And that’s it isn’t it?

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 6, 2024

To provide student pilots an opportunity to experience real world general aviation flying outside of the training environment and introduce them to what they can do once they have earned their pilot certificates. To support our member pilots in trying new things in aviation that might be too intimidating for them to try on their own.

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Pilot Flight Plan Air Traffic Control General Aviation 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Proper angle of attack management also maintains safety during slow flight, crosswind landings, and when encountering wake turbulence. You will also develop a feel of how the aircraft feels as it approaches a stall. For many general aviation aircraft, the critical AOA is in the range of 15-18 degrees.

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Lift Turbulence Drag Pilot 52

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In recent times, composite materials have been introduced for flight controls even in small general aviation aircraft. Fly-by-wire is expensive, so you wont find it on most small general aviation aircraft. The downside of this approach is a lack of redundancy. What Materials Are Used in Ailerons?

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 7, 2025

Here are the areas you should read up on: Landing irregularities : Information on crosswind landings will help you escape a tight situation and get back on the ground safely. As you return to the traffic pattern, focus on short and soft field approaches and landings. At these heights, you could get into turbulence and gusty crosswinds.

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Pilot Weight-Shift-Control Pilot in Command Crosswind 52

Pilot Institute

JUNE 26, 2024

Yet, statistics show that go-arounds are among the riskiest maneuvers in general aviation. A bad approach results in a bad landing. A go-around is a maneuver performed to abort or reject a landing on the final approach or once the aircraft has already touched down. In other words, it is an unstabilized approach.

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Wind Shear Runway Approach Aeronautical Decision-Making 52

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Thaws, rain, snow, and strong crosswinds can temporarily close the airport. Not Cool, Man After transitioning across multiple sectors of Boston Center's vast airspace, the home stretch found us on with Boston Approach under a crisp, blue New Hampshire sky. Despite its acclaim, the ephemeral airport leads a finicky existence.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

General aviation is driven by myriad forces. You might ask what happens with crosswind landings when you take away rudder authority. Flight Design rates the F2 with the same 16-knot demonstrated crosswind component as the previous CTs. Then theres the sales and marketing footprint. In this case, nothing.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But it was apparent the smallest Grumman flying boat was too small and full of quirks—the cabin door won’t open if the flaps are down, for example—to justify something approaching a direct copy. The Prototype Ben and Ross’s vision in 1990 was a fiberglass Widgeon. A not so obvious advantage is taxiing.

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