Flight Training Central

MARCH 29, 2024

What is likely to occur if you lift off the runway before reaching rotation speed due to ground effect? Aileron down on the upwind wing Aileron up on the upwind wing Aileron up on the downwind wing Correct! Inability to climb Increase in stability Decrease in thrust required to maintain flight Correct!

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Chess In the Air

JULY 24, 2022

However, perhaps the safest response for everyone involved would have been the following: Rather than trying to climb with the tow plane, I should have stayed in ground effect while communicating the request for a greater airspeed. Staying in ground effect protects the glider from a stall because of lower induced drag.

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Fear of Landing

JANUARY 17, 2025

This was done early in the program (737-100/200) because it was discovered the 737 was prone to float in ground effect enough that it could prevent WoW from going true after touchdown – same with wheel speed. The 737 does not use Weight on Wheels (WoW) to enable the thrust reversers.

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Simple Flying

MAY 16, 2024

Ekranoplans are a sort of mix of an aircraft and a hovercraft using ground effect to fly or skim a few meters above the ground (normally the water). It is sometimes assumed that the Soviets just copied Western aircraft design (such as with the Tupolev Tu-4 - a B-29 copy) and were always playing catch-up.

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Fear of Landing

MAY 3, 2024

Once stable in ground effect, the pilot shut down EPU1 (left-side outboard) to simulate the performance in the case of an engine failure. Additional team members monitored the aircraft status and were able to quickly speak to the pilot as needed. G-EVTL lifted off with all EPUs operating.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 26, 2024

Hold this extra power as you enter ground effect. Low-wing aircraft perform better in ground effect because of the wing’s proximity to the ground. Once you enter ground effect, too much speed will cause the aircraft to float or balloon. It is the safest and smartest decision.

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CockPit Conversation

JANUARY 30, 2023

Was he really going to tell me how hard it was to pull that Beaver off the water and then get enough speed in ground effect to clear the trees? He talked about the wind, and the conditions and the geography. I was in suspense. Was he going to tell me how many Gs he pulled to avoid the hills, and how he recovered from the ensuing stall?

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All Plane

MARCH 16, 2024

Southwest Airlines is joining Regent’s Hawaii Seaglider Initiative, which is looking at the requirements and conditions to use ground-effect vehicles in inter-island coastal operations. Aciturri , a Spanish maker of aerostructures is investing in Dovetail , an Australian startup with Spanish founders.

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AV Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Regent Viceroy The Coast Guard has approved crewed testing of the wing-in-ground-effect Regent Viceroy seaglider and the company is anticipating a speedy trip to certification. The Russians have been dabbling in ground-effect aircraft (or boats) for decades and have made some huge examples.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

You’ll have to accelerate to V x while staying within ground effect. When you’re proficient, you’ll confidently maintain altitude a few feet off the ground while accelerating from slow flight. Your improved judgment of airspeed and altitude will help you make a controlled approach.

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Aerotime

MAY 12, 2024

Growing geopolitical tensions along the Pacific Ocean rim have prompted a renewed interest by the US military in seaplanes and ground-effect vehicles to support amphibious and seaborne operations.

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Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

It is important to maintain the extra speed until I get into ground effect where the risk of descending into a sudden tail wind no longer exists. I should have never been below 80 kts in the pattern. This also includes the last portion on short final. Final Thoughts Writing this article has been difficult.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

It will serve almost exclusively coastal regions and use existing dock infrastructure, flying 20 to 30 feet above the water using ground effect. Viceroy is designed to combine the speed of an aircraft (cruising at 180 mph or 156 knots) with the functionality and low operating cost of a boat.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

An incomplete summary description of FASF is whether the airplane made it out of ground effect. That phenomenon is best named Failure to Achieve Sustained Flight (FASF). This is more theoretical than practical for visual AOA, but can affect some proposals such as a general aviation stick shaker.

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

” After briefly entering the ground effect, F-106A 58-0787 mad an unpiloted, wheels-up landing in a frozen wheatfield outside Big Sandy, Montana. At that point, the third pilot in the air, Major James Jim Lowe, called out to Foust over the radio, “Gary, youd better get back in it.”

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Pitot Tube Ground Effect Drag Pilot 59

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

ORA does not fly their pioneer era aircraft above the treetops, but the Pusher climbed out of ground effect and flew along the runway before setting back to the turf at the far end. 1911 Curtiss Pusher Model D (reproduction). After the flight, the pilot gave a demonstration of the Pusher's decidedly non-conventional controls.

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Resist pulling back, instead letting it accelerate in ground effect (or should we say water effect) for a few seconds. When the nose begins to tuck that’s your cue you’re climbing onto the step, so measure off the back pressure to make sure you don’t porpoise, then flatten the pitch to accelerate. The plane will fly itself off.

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