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Understanding Left-Turning Tendencies in Airplanes

Northstar VFR

By Josh Page, CFI Ever heard your flight instructor say, More right rudder? Torque is most noticeable when power is applied suddenly for example, during takeoff. If uncorrected, it can cause a yawing movement to the left, requiring the pilot to use right rudder to maintain coordinated control. How do you correct this?

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The Fenestron Factor: Cabri G2 Crash in Gruyéres

Fear of Landing

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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What Every Pilot Needs to Know about the Airplane Rudder

Northstar VFR

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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Overcoming the Five Most Common Landing Errors

Flight Training Central

1) High Roundout Sometimes when the airplane appears to temporarily stop moving downward, the roundout has been made too rapidly and the airplane is flying level, too high above the runway. This would result in the airplane stalling and dropping hard onto the runway. Porpoising can also be caused by improper airspeed control.

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The pros and the cons: Cirrus SR22

Air Facts

More significantly, runway performance on landing isnt great. Landing a Cirrus on a 3000-foot runway is perfectly doable, but not if you land fast and long because the brakes will not save you from a bad approach. No rudder trim. Like the lack of nose wheel steering, the lack of rudder trim has always bothered me.

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Is Flying a Helicopter Harder Than Flying a Plane? A Comparative Analysis

Pilot's Life Blog

Control Mechanisms Airplane Controls In airplanes, pilots manage flight using three primary controls: the ailerons, elevator, and rudder. The rudder, attached to the vertical tail fin, manages yaw, enabling the nose to move left or right. Unlike airplanes, they can hover, move sideways, and land without a runway.

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When Push Comes to Shove

Plane and Pilot

We would launch from the paved runway, retract the gear, and head out to one of the nearby waterways to practice takeoffs and landings. The airplane began to torque to the left, and I was just about to pull the power to idle before the left wing hit the nearby tree when the left float let go, and we jumped forward into deeper water.