Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This horizontal component of lift is called Induced Drag. Its called induced drag since it only exists as a consequence of lift. If youre generating lift, youre stuck with induced drag as well. Increased Drag Moving air around is hard work! This lateral movement takes place at a speed of about two or three knots.

Turbulence 97

Turbulence Lift Drag Runway 97

Fear of Landing

JULY 19, 2024

There are not many details yet but one source says that at the time of the engine failure, the Cessna was travelling at 100 knots at 1,250 feet above ground level. Someone claiming to be from Bankstown says the hangar gossip is that the engine failed because he ran out of fuel.

Runway 98

Runway Pilot Approach Drag 98

Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

Down low, maximum speeds can easily exceed 425 knots. The L–39’s Fowler flaps are clearly visible during the preflight inside Gauntlet Warbird’s hangar at Aurora Municipal Airport (left). At 90 knots I ease the stick back and we’re through 140 knots with gear and flaps coming up before I know it.

Knot 52

Knot Rudder Pilot Jet 52

Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Maintain appropriate airspeed +0/-10 knots, and level off at a specified altitude ±100 feet. This provides increased drag and, therefore, the loss of altitude as quickly as possible. Since aviation for work isn’t enough, she also lives in a hangar home on the west side of Houston! . • PA.IX.A.S3 PA.IX.A.S4

Descent 52

Descent Aeronautical Decision-Making Airplanes Turbulence 52

Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

Each day, 12 students spent two hours in a fabrication hangar where they cut/folded/riveted a sheet of aluminum into a wing component. The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. five hours at 150 knots vs. five weeks at 5 knots). Two hours were allocated to flying.

Lift 98

Lift Knot Airfoil Airplanes 98

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As I passed Kelley's Island, wind streaks in the water out of the southwest indicated a wind of six to eight knots, exactly as forecast. Behind me, the other Cherokee (a Cherokee Six) landed and aggressively made for the main commercial hangar building. Moments later, the pilot emerged and helped four women disembark.

Runway 82

Runway Approach Knot Drag 82

Fear of Landing

JUNE 14, 2024

There was another person on the airfield, who was standing outside of a hangar at about halfway along the runway as the Cessna approached. The Cessna then continued at the same height until the mid-point of the runway, at which point it climbed to 200-280 feet at 60 knots before descending towards the field.

Threshold 89

Threshold Runway Approach Pilot 89