Cockpit Ground Effect Rudder 
Air Facts
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect. One more gadget in the cockpit cannot remedy deficits in skill, judgement, and attitude. This is more theoretical than practical for visual AOA, but can affect some proposals such as a general aviation stick shaker.
Chess In the Air
JUNE 24, 2022
How Does It Feel in the Cockpit When We Encounter A Microburst? What we experience in the cockpit differs greatly depending on our altitude (and on the stage of the microburst’s development when we encounter it). I immediately pushed in the spoilers, hit hard right rudder, and hard right stick.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). After squeezing through the landing gear houses I settled into the right seat for our evaluation flights because frankly, this is a complex airplane with a complex cockpit.
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