Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. On my relatively high powered Vans RV-9A , flaps are not a critical item, unless the runway is short. Flight controls and engine controls are the obvious ones.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Michael Derrer Fuchs / Shutterstock Once the pushback is complete and the engines are running, the crew will contact ATC again for taxi clearance, effectively asking the tower for the route they are required to follow and which taxiways to use to reach the active runway.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 13, 2025

Not Studying Enough Outside of Flight Lessons The Mistake: Many student pilots believe that learning to fly is all about time in the cockpit, neglecting the equally important ground school and self-study. Example of a Proper Radio Call: Minneapolis Ground, Cessna 172, N12345 at Inflight Aviation, ready to taxi to Runway 12 for departure.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In addition to repairing the left gear leg, the right gear and rudder were removed for recovering. The ramp is empty, so I ask if hed like to taxi us to the departure end of the runway. The main road between the houses is the old runway. We hop out of the cockpit, and Andrew ties the ship to the tarmac for the night.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. What the…?

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Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In addition, the chargers were too bulky to bring along in the cockpit. In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). Even taxiing needed to remain limited in order to conserve power and prevent the battery from overheating. Self-launch from high altitude airports.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Primary Flight Controls The primary controls of a small plane are the yoke, rudder pedals, and throttle. Rudder pedals help manage yaw, which keeps the aircraft aligned during turns or crosswinds. Proper use of the throttle , maintaining alignment with the runway, and achieving the correct airspeed are essential steps.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. The rudder, also on the tail, adjusts yaw, which affects left and right turns. Ailerons, located on the wings, control the plane’s roll.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. The plane’s mechanic, known as a plane captain, was up on the wing and helped me settle into the cockpit.

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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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Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 10, 2025

The project is located at the General Rodriguez Airfield (GEZ) about an hour drive west from the center of Buenos Aires, its a fantastic large airfield with a long grass runway with many hangars on one side and an area with homes and hangars on the other side. The landing gear looked brand new, which of course it was newly overhauled.

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Air Facts

JANUARY 13, 2025

Cirrus has long been a leader in this category, essentially making glass cockpits the default in piston airplanes over 20 years ago, but they continued to add useful updates like terrain warning systems, digital engine monitors, and advanced autopilots through the years. More significantly, runway performance on landing isnt great.

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Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

Better stick-and-rudder control, smoother handling, and more exact navigation, even during VFR flights. Understand and Use Modern Avionics Todays cockpits are more technologically advanced than ever. Youll develop a rhythm of cross-checking instruments, scanning efficiently, and anticipating the next step in your flight. The result?

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AV Web

JANUARY 22, 2025

The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Examination of the accident site confirmed flight-control continuity from the cockpit to all flight control surfaces. We cant emphasize enough the need for rudder coordination.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

CDT, a Beech Baron lifted off from Runway 35 at Lubbock Executive Airpark in Texas (F82). The accident pilot does a cursory look over the plane’s exterior, gets in, starts the engines, and taxis to the runway. on march 17, 2023, at 11:37 a.m. By 11:40 a.m. The ramp isn’t busy at all. A lineman marshals the twin in and adds fuel.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I called Lawson Tower and was cleared for taxi and mid-runway takeoff on Runway 15. 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.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The instructor was able to complete the turn, but the airplane overshot the runway. The pilot flying wrote, “After completing the turn back to the field we saw the airport environment and we were located over the runway but more than halfway down runway 17. The instructor’s preparation for an engine failure is exemplary.

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Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? The 172 has a steerable nosewheel, much heavier than the rudders on my RV-9A with a castering nosewheel. Then off to the other runway for a full stop. I had a total knee replacement.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But landing it safely on the runway is a skill. When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift.

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Air Facts

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently started to appreciate. Then came the long taxi to the runway.

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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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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The glass cockpit overshadows the cooperative, complacent RV-9A’s character. Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. What the…?

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

She flew like a big, lumbering Cub of sorts, complete with a wooden rudder bar, tall wooden stick, and instruments that seemed like they were straight out of World War One. Originally used as a trainer in World War II, the Stearman features a tandem, open cockpit with forgiving, yet challenging flight characteristics.

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iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

Boeing Company Allows Boeing flight crews to calculate takeoff analysis, landing analysis and weight and balance information, correcting for pressure variation, runway conditions, engine bleeds and MEL items. Improve your stick and rudder skills as a private pilot go beyond the instrument checkride with these advanced courses.

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Air Facts

JANUARY 31, 2025

Here is an example, flown in my RV-9A, eyes out of the cockpit, with no attempt to manage AOA or skid ball. Rather, when the nose drops, use top (opposite) rudder to hold the nose up. And just like a VFR into IMC spiral is low AOA, ball centered, a botched base to final turn can be low AOA, ball centered. The data has spoken.

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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 17 September 2003: riding back seat with Dave and looking down South Haven's grass runway 14. It is often said that the cockpit is a poor classroom. What's that?)

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

I was listening intently to the ASOS for wind or gusts, letting it repeat 5 or 6 times with the exact same report: 9 kts straight down the runway; no gusts. That was the runway we would use to land. It’s worth noting that Shmulik had a close call in the past: a jet pulled onto the runway in front of him with no radio call.

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Professional Pilot

JULY 3, 2024

M ost difficult experience has been taxiing when visibility for runways is down to 150 m or less. I’d venture to say that few aircraft out there can cruise at 350 kts, and operate safely out of the 2500-ft runway at WKR, which has had its share of landing mishaps. Antonio Aranda ATP. I’m proud of this piece of equipment.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

One more gadget in the cockpit cannot remedy deficits in skill, judgement, and attitude. On downwind, ATC had me at 3,000 feet going over the departure end of the crossing runway. I could see that the spot on the ground in the windshield that was not moving was short of the runway. Turning final, I was still way, way high.

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Professional Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

“Twenty years ago, Garmin redefined the general aviation cockpit with the G1000, our first integrated flight deck. Ten years later, we introduced the G3000, bringing the first touch screens to the light turbine cockpit, and revolutionary technologies like the award-winning Garmin Autoland.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off. You just make one great big U-turn, that way you can kind of watch the runway the whole time.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. You can sit there with full back stick, full aileron one way and full rudder the other, and its perfectly controllable. You might ask what happens with crosswind landings when you take away rudder authority.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. Throttle adjustments, trim settings, and speed control are all important in setting up for a controlled, smooth descent to the runway.

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