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The Six Pack: Basic Flight Instruments

Pilot Institute

The stability of the spinning disc increases with an increase in mass or speed of the disc. It may take a few seconds to several minutes for the gyroscope inside the AI to stabilize and the instrument to indicate correctly. This ball is located in a tube filled with fluid and can move freely to the right and left.

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Flight Review: Van’s RV-12 LSA—Singular Success

Plane and Pilot

Sure, there are the removable wings and an unusual-for-an-RV stabilator out back for pitch control, but there’s nothing revolutionary in the concepts or execution. In fact, the unusual pitot-tube location—it peeks out from the center of the prop spinner—was chosen to reduce fuselage-to-wing connections. A nuance, perhaps.

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Flight Review: Van’s RV-12 LSA—Singular Success

Plane and Pilot

Sure, there are the removable wings and an unusual-for-an-RV stabilator out back for pitch control, but there’s nothing revolutionary in the concepts or execution. In fact, the unusual pitot-tube location—it peeks out from the center of the prop spinner—was chosen to reduce fuselage-to-wing connections. A nuance, perhaps.