Aerotime
APRIL 3, 2025
As the French mechanic slid himself along the wing of the aircraft, shifting its center of gravity, the aircraft became unbalanced. Hugh Llewelyn / Wikimedia Commons Even during the 1950s, commercial aircraft would employ five crew members in the cockpit comprising two pilots, a flight engineer, a radio operator, and a navigator.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
(Wright State University) The original configuration of the Bell Model 68 was an open cockpit all-metal monoplane with fixed landing gear that was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines with thrust deflectors located at the aircraft’s center of gravity.
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iPad Pilot News
MARCH 11, 2025
There’s even an alert for weight and balance when your center of gravity is out of limits. These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. Many pilots may not realize that ForeFlight also provides audio alerts with these notifications.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Additional Dangers of Ice Accumulation Icing also makes your aircraft heavier and can even change the position of the center of gravity. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. With thicker accumulations and irregular shapes, drag can get up to two times worse!
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. This shifts the ailerons Center of Gravity (C.G.) All flight controls are actuated electronically, and theres no physical link between the control sidesticks in the cockpit and the flight surfaces.
Pilot Institute
JANUARY 7, 2025
Youll have to think about the risks for all factors at play before you get in the cockpit. Stress: Lifes pressures dont disappear when youre in the cockpit. The aircraft ended up being overloaded by 580 pounds, with its center of gravity positioned too far back. What Is the PAVE Checklist?
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 22, 2024
We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway. That one-ton shift of weight drastically altered the aircraft’s center of gravity, unbalancing my landing trim setting. Saigon Tower, Bookie one-zero-five, number-one on taxiway Alpha for departure.”
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