Ground Effect Pilot Thrust 
Pilot Institute
MARCH 28, 2025
The exhaust coming out of aircraft engines looks pretty dangerous, generating huge amounts of thrust and pushing back tons of hot air. Pilots avoid vortices by maintaining safe separation and adjusting flight paths. Vortex size is also affected by proximity to the ground. How Are Wingtip Vortices Formed?
Fear of Landing
JANUARY 17, 2025
The 737 does not use Weight on Wheels (WoW) to enable the thrust reversers. 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.
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Fear of Landing
MAY 3, 2024
The five-seater aircraft (pilot and four passengers) is pitched as an urban air taxi, with plenty of room for luggage. The prototype is designed as a piloted aircraft but the initial test flight in July 2023 was unmanned. A second pilot maintained visual contact with the aircraft. G-EVTL lifted off with all EPUs operating.
Flight Training Central
MAY 6, 2024
Because birds were designed by God and he created them with high wings”- quote by the late John Frank, Cessna Pilots Association. You don’t have to hang around airports, airplanes or pilots very long until someone will crank up the high wing versus low wing debate. “Low wing airplanes were designed by the very devil himself.
Flight Training Central
MARCH 29, 2024
The FAA continues to add new questions based on guidance from the Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards. What are the reporting requirements for a pilot convicted of possessing and selling marijuana? What is likely to occur if you lift off the runway before reaching rotation speed due to ground effect?
Pilot Institute
MARCH 29, 2024
Key Takeaways Slow flight trains pilots to handle the aircraft at speeds just above stalling. The aircraft’s proximity to the ground leaves you with little to no room to recover from a loss of control. That’s why it’s crucial for pilots to learn aircraft control at low speeds. Pilots use reference stalling speeds instead.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
When spelled geoduck it represents a grotesque, oversized mollusk, or clam to we pilot simpletons. Much depends on the aircraft’s weight, pilot skill and, surprisingly, “how much abuse you want to experience. Checking the oil is the main attraction to the pilot. The airplane will handle more than you want to.”
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