Pilot Institute

MARCH 24, 2025

Once the airplane has reached a point where it nearly stalls or loses lift, youll initiate a pivot or turn. Just prior to reaching a point where the aircraft stops all upward motion, the pilot applies full rudder input to yaw the aircraft and point the nose straight toward the ground. The stall turn consists of three main parts.

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Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

More right rudder!!” The airplane rudder is one of the most misunderstood of the primary flight controls. Yet the rudder is one of the most important and one of the most under-utilized. The rudder’s most important function is controlling the yaw of the aircraft, which moves the nose of the plane left and right.

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Plane and Pilot

MARCH 25, 2025

Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance. Sounds good.

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Knot Airplanes Runway Rudder 111

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

Wings: The Source of Lift The wings are what make fixed-wing flight possible. As air moves over the curved top surface of the wing and the flatter bottom, lift is generated, allowing the plane to rise. Regardless of placement, the principle remains the same: wings generate the lift that makes flight possible.

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Inspire

APRIL 17, 2025

Rossier, EAA 472091 This piece originally ran in Roberts Stick and Rudder column in the March 2025 issue of EAA Sport Aviation magazine. The shroud of morning fog had just lifted as I taxied cautiously to Runway 07 at Westerly State Airport (KWST) in Rhode Island. By Robert N.

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Northstar VFR

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Just remember the acronym PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite of the spin, and Elevator forward. The nose pitches up, sometimes aggressively because of how the airplane was trimmed on final approach and all your flaps are generally still down (lots of lift there). So how do you recover from a spin? What happens next?

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Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

This increases the load on the wings, requiring more lift to maintain altitude. Coordinate with the rudder to prevent adverse yaw and keep the turn balanced. Coordination Difficulties: Keeping the turn coordinated with proper rudder and aileron use can be tricky at first. Use coordinated rudder to counter adverse yaw.

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Fear of Landing

JUNE 28, 2024

In the event of an unintentional left yaw, the pilot must immediately apply right rudder, that is, firmly apply pressure on the right rudder pedal. The key is to respond swiftly and with rather more right rudder than might be expected from pilots without experience with Fenestron-equipped helicopters. The weather was clear.

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Rudder Tail Lift Knot 111

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Aerodynamics 101 Flying a small plane revolves around understanding four key forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Lift is generated by the wings as air flows over them, counteracting weight, which pulls the plane downward due to gravity.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

The Cessna 180’s conventional landing gear and squared-off “straight” vertical fin and rudder give it a distinctive vintage silhouette that many pilots find attractive. You can read Aircraft For Sale: Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily. Today’s Top Pick is a 1955 Cessna 180 Skywagon.

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Lift Transponder Rudder Pilot 105

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Principles of Flight: Lift, Weight, Thrust, and Drag Flying a plane for the first time requires a basic understanding of the forces that make flight possible. Lift is generated by the wings, counteracting the force of weight, which pulls the plane down. Ready to experience the skies with us?

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Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Skills Developed: It enhances coordination and control precision, forcing students to make small, deliberate inputs on the yoke and rudder. Normal Takeoff and Landing: Students learn the standard procedures to smoothly lift off and touch down. Learning slow flight builds confidence and prepares you for stall recognition.

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Northstar VFR

JUNE 8, 2025

Icing : Ice can build up on the control surfaces, causing loss of smooth airflow and lift. Recovering from a Nose-High Unusual Attitude: Simultaneously apply full power, level the wings with correct aileron/rudder pressure, and push forward on the controls to allow the airspeed to increase.

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Turbulence Wind Shear Aileron Rudder 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The lift and drag imbalance between the left and right ailerons creates adverse yaw. A pilot can prevent adverse yaw by using rudder, and making sure that a turn is coordinated. Adverse yaw is an undesirable side effect of lift production, resulting in an uncoordinated, slipping turn. This movement reduces the AOA and lift.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The duct, as predicted by Stipa, had a profile similar to that of the airfoil, with a fairly small rudder and elevators mounted on the trailing edge of the duct. The Stipa-Caproni prototype proudly showcased its Italian origin in a blue-and-cream color used on racing aircraft of the day, with Italian flag colors painted on the rudder.

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Airfoil Rudder Drag Stability 98

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 11, 2025

They flew a total of 313 missions, collecting invaluable data on pitch stability, lift, drag, and buffeting in transonic and supersonic flight. Photo via NASA Three Aircraft, One Mission Three Skyrockets were built, designated Bureau Numbers 37973, 37974, and 37975NACA 143, 144, and 145, respectively.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

This can cause you to lose lift. Remember Bernoulli’s Theorem and how lift is created. The loss of lift causes the aircraft to stall and lose altitude. Maintain Control and Increase Airspeed It’s important that you add right rudder to neutralize the aircraft’s left-turning tendencies. Why Practice Power-off Stalls?

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Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. While some of this may be due to continued pilot improvements, a more than 8% improvement is remarkable!

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Key Takeaways Ailerons control the aircrafts roll by adjusting lift on each wing. Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. The aircrafts wing is able to generate lift due to its shape. Why does this increase the lift? If the flow on both sides is symmetrical, the wing wont produce any lift.

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Plane and Pilot

MARCH 7, 2025

The fuselage is 9 feet tall, just about even with the top of the twin rudders. The Airtruk can lift nearly 200 gallons (or 2,000 pounds) of dry chemicals all day long and land on rough outback strips very near the job site. The PL-12 sported two little stub wings below the strut-braced main wing structure. Photo: Warner Bros.

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Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

A witness reported that they saw the airplane lift off from the runway and remain in ground effect until it crossed the departure end of the runway. The pilot applied right rudder in an attempt to correct this, resulting in a ground loop. He had no further memory of the event. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing.

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Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

It may be necessary to add a slight amount of power to keep the airspeed from decreasing excessively and to avoid losing lift too rapidly. By adding power, thrust can be increased to keep the airspeed from decelerating too rapidly and the wings from suddenly losing lift, but throttle must be closed immediately after touchdown.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Storo lifted the British fighter into the air for the first time on June 28, 2022, from Tillamook Municipal Airport near his home. At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off. It’s the rudder that is doing everything. Storo’s replica wears the colors of Royal Air Force (RAF) No.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Approach speeds typically range from 80 to 90 knots depending on weight and flap settings, while full flaps are often used to provide the necessary lift during landing. Full flaps provide maximum lift and stability, allowing the aircraft to fly slower without stalling. This is a critical step when learning how to land a Piper Seminole.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Common mistakes include neglecting clearing turns, delaying stall recovery, and misusing the rudder. Lift : The aerodynamic force generated due to airflow over the wings. The aircraft’s deceleration reduces the airflow over the wings, which reduces lift. So, how do we increase lift to maintain altitude?

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Pilot Institute

MAY 9, 2024

The higher speed creates extra lift, causing the airplane to bank further into the turn. The aileron on the right wing deflects down, increasing the camber and creating more lift. The left wing’s aileron deflects up, decreasing lift. The lift imbalance causes the roll. This drag imbalance amplifies the adverse yaw.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Aerodynamic Differences Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Airplanes) Airplanes , or fixed-wing aircraft, generate lift through their stationary wings as they move forward. This pressure difference produces lift, allowing the aircraft to ascend. Each rotor blade acts as an airfoil, and as it rotates, it moves air over its surface, generating lift.

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Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A smaller bank angle will result in more lift, while an increased bank angle will reduce the lift. As an aircraft banks, lift is divided into horizontal and vertical components. The horizontal component of lift causes the aircraft to turn. Combining both components of lift, the total lift required increases.

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Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

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. 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.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

With one hand I lifted the back high enough to pull the stick back far enough to stop my dive. I lifted the seat back into place and saw there was a latch to hold it. I then checked all the controls, elevator up and down, ailerons right and left, rudder right and left. Maybe it was just my adrenaline.

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Descent Lift Runway Cockpit 87

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 19, 2024

Photo by Joel Edwards] When A&T commenced the recovery, divers placed inflatable lift bags at strategic points on the two sections to raise them to just below the surface, thus preventing damage during the twelve hours it took to tow the wreckage to the local marina. We had to do some welding on that. They were also in good shape.

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Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Generate Lift With Airplane Wings One of the most valuable airplane parts that connect to the fuselage is the wings. The wings work with other sections of an aircraft to increase lift and adjust stalling speed. You’ll find a horizontal stabilizer, vertical stabilizer, elevator, and rudder pedals here.

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2025

Courtesy: Sporty’s Pilot Shop] A nice touch is to include a good starter set of hardware like a quality yoke or joystick, rudder pedals, and throttle quadrant, allowing your aviator to replicate many of the complexities of real flight in the comfort of their home. The Lift Pro 2.0

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Jetwhine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If I’m lucky, like I was last week, it is a Cessna 172 from the Fox Valley Tech program out practicing maneuvers and other essential stick and rudder skills. On this day the lesson was clearly stalls and slow flight.

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Air

MARCH 10, 2025

The leading wing experiences increased lift , causing a roll in the opposite direction. If the aircraft banks, the higher wing produces more lift, helping to restore level flight. The sequence begins with an initial yaw at a particular angular velocity, termed the Dutch roll frequency.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

We tried lifting the rear of the floats to increase the buoyancy offered by the larger front float chambers. Quickly dropping the water rudders, I reduced the throttle to idle, giddy with the release from our muddy prison. Calling for Chris to join me, we tried to simply push the airplane off the mud bank into deeper water.

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Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

We tried lifting the rear of the floats to increase the buoyancy offered by the larger front float chambers. Quickly dropping the water rudders, I reduced the throttle to idle, giddy with the release from our muddy prison. Calling for Chris to join me, we tried to simply push the airplane off the mud bank into deeper water.

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