Air Facts

APRIL 9, 2025

Its easy to imagine reading the NTSB report about an influencer on YouTube or Instagram who crashed while livestreaming on final approach (Can I land in a 40-knot crosswind? This is a great way to refresh your stick and rudder skills, practice old fashioned situational awareness, and (no less importantly) have fun.

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Weather Airplanes Pilot Cockpit 98

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. Unlike the elevators and rudder mounted close to the fuselage, the ailerons location at the end of the long, thin, and flexible wings makes them much more prone to flutter. This is where the rudder comes in. What Is an Aileron?

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

This app lets you know at a glance if you are legal to fly as pilot in command by keeping track of your flight review, medical status and recent flight experience. Pilot Workshops Explore Pilot Workshops’ collection of pilot proficiency courses in this app. Flight Currency Ready to fly? Are you current?

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Weather Pilot Flight Plan Airplanes 91

Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

Thaws, rain, snow, and strong crosswinds can temporarily close the airport. Today would be his first landing on the ice as pilot in command. Since 2019, pilots in command have been presented with poker chips -- what the Alton Bay crew fittingly call "ice chips" -- commemorating landing at Alton Bay.

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Runway Airplanes Threshold Approach 68

Air Facts

AUGUST 26, 2024

I can still remember one of my early flight instructors grabbing the controls and practically shouting at me as we wobbled down the runway one day, “ you need to make this &$*%@ airplane do exactly what you want—that’s why you’re called pilot in command!” A bit harsh, perhaps, but 100% correct, and a lesson I have not forgotten.

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Knot Runway Airplanes Pilot 98