Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

As the jet is slowed, the instructor pilot asks the entire flight crew to note the unnatural quiet in the cockpit, the sluggish control and power response, and the buffeting. Second, excessive bank and bottom rudder are not your friends. An overshot final turn, S-turns on final, or 360s for spacing can reduce stall margins.

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Approach Airplanes Horizontal Stabilizer Pilot 77

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The dirt and gravel on the floor and the contents of the ashtray were now making their way to the top of the cockpit. Turning back to Lawson, I looked around the cockpit and checked the instruments for anything out of order. I then checked all the controls, elevator up and down, ailerons right and left, rudder right and left.

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Descent Lift Runway Cockpit 87

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

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Knot Cockpit Pilot Gross Weight 52

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

Ultra-Modern: Cirrus SR22 If what turns your head is a sophisticated aircraft with advanced avionics, comfortable cockpit, and safety features such as a whole-airframe parachute, consider the Cirrus SR22 series. Another point in the model’s favor is the cockpit noise…or lack thereof. This isn’t the one for you.

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Knot Pilot Cockpit Flight Deck 101

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

The rudder and elevators both had some internal work done to the ribs prior to re-covering the surfaces, but not much. A few flush patches here and there are incorporated into the horizontal stabs, but the vertical was untouched except for the radio mast. We had to do some welding on that. They were also in good shape.

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Tail Firewall Approach Flight Deck 119

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Forward flight was stabilized by a conventional rudder and elevator arrangement. Stone Cold Stearman College Park's Stearman was once owned by Gustavus "Gus" McLeod, who departed Gaithersburg, MD in this aircraft on April 5, 2000 and became the first pilot to reach the North Pole in an open cockpit airplane.

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Airplanes Tail Cockpit Rudder 52

Air Facts

APRIL 10, 2024

There are pictures of me in the back cockpit of my dad’s war surplus PT-19 and the rear seat of a rented PA-12. Rudder stomping landings in the Cessna 180 that hated to stay in a straight line on the ground. The answer itself is simple, the construct more complex. The reason is that it is time. First loop in the Citabria.

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General Aviation Pilot Cockpit VOR 52

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Lead banked and wagged his rudder, signaling us to maneuver back into a spread formation. All cockpit gauges confirmed critical systems were humming and happy. We flew directly over the target, roughly 10,000 ft. above the impending firestorm and outside anti-aircraft gun range. What the….? Had we been hit?

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Drag Thrust Pilot Rudder 52

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

When power was added, there were brief pitch oscillations before the plane departed the left side of the runway, as if P-factor and lack of right rudder input were present. It is unlikely that an additional cockpit instrument, such as AOA, will provide any additional safety benefit in such stressed pilot situations.

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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 66

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. We had several other donor aircraft, but we have now completely rebuilt the forward fuselage with the exception of the top of the cockpit. Between 1950 and 1965, the aircraft amassed 994 flight test hours.

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Tail Airplanes Cockpit Firewall 126

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

“Before the Parks was completely disassembled for restoration, I enjoyed reading passages from some of these books while sitting in the aft cockpit. It made its way to Lumberton lawyer Evander Munn Britt Jr., who in 1964 traded it to Richard Bach for the latter’s recently-rebuilt, “modern” 1946 Fairchild F-24.

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Airplanes Aileron Tail Hangar 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The J-4’s cockpit is wider than the more common J-3, and the second generation brought about the replacement of the open cowl with exposed exhaust ports with a fully enclosed cowl. 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.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Approach 72

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

These were days before the proliferation of AWOS/ASOS stations and the advent of ADS-B (FIS-B) weather displayed on a tablet in the cockpit. (A It is often said that the cockpit is a poor classroom. What's that?) During one instance, we were hosting a cookout at Dave's hangar.

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Airplanes Knot Runway Avionics Master Switch 52

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 10, 2024

His wing tank and cockpit exploded.” One torpedo found its mark on USS Intrepid at 2211 hours, killing 11 sailors and wounding a further 17, causing flooding in several of the ship’s compartments and jamming the Intrepid ’s rudder hard to port. On the cockpit section, the stencil “LT. Navy and U.S.

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Cockpit Tail Pilot Stability 128

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

One more gadget in the cockpit cannot remedy deficits in skill, judgement, and attitude. I think that currently, the most improvable aspects of general aviation safety likely will include improving basic flying skills including rudder usage and stall and slow flight well beyond ACS standards.

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General Aviation Pilot Approach Airplanes 73

iPad Pilot News

MAY 29, 2024

To complement the Honeycomb setup, we would recommend either the Thrustmaster Flight Rudder pedals or the Thrustmaster TPR Flight Simulator pedals , depending on your budget. For users looking for a less expensive alternative, the Logitech Flight Simulator Yoke and Rudder Pedals kit still offer a feature-packed experience.

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Rudder Approach Firewall Pilot 52

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

You’d think pilot problems would be all about stick-and-rudder skills here,” he said. They need to know the L–39’s systems and our profiles cold when they walk in the door.” -built fighter jet—including the narrow and mildly pressurized (4 psi) cockpit. Hold full right rudder and gently grab the handbrake. Need a right turn?

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Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

It started out as a routine engine failure, but escalated rapidly when we began to smell what we thought at first was smoke, but which turned out to be oil, in the cockpit. After spending decades in the cockpit of a major airline, it was difficult getting back into general and corporate aviation. John Pulis ATP/Helo/CFII/A&P.

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Pilot Runway NOTAMs Cockpit 40

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.

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Pilot AGL Wind Shear Runway 52

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

It sported a supercharged 450 hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp Junior and an enlarged vertical stabilizer and rudder to match. The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames. However, the Spartan’s belly flap was controlled separately from the wing flaps.

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Rudder Stability Airplanes Aileron 80