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Mastering Stalls: How to Recognize, Prevent, and Recover Safely

Flight Training Central

MARCH 3, 2025

Recovery is made by lowering the nose, simultaneously applying full power while maintaining directional control with coordinated use of aileron and rudder. Right rudder pressure will be needed to offset the effect of the increase in power. Then, at the first sign of a stall, lower the nose, apply power, and level the wings.

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Rudder Aileron Airplanes Accelerated Stall

Understanding Left-Turning Tendencies in Airplanes

Northstar VFR

MARCH 16, 2025

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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Airplanes Rudder Torque Thrust

What Every Pilot Needs to Know about the Airplane Rudder

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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Updates on the “Always” Movie Catalina Heading to Yanks Air Museum

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

N9505C in the movie “Always” As discussed in that previous article, this Catalina, N9505C, was converted to a “Super-Cat”, with its engines upgraded to Wright R-2600s and its rudder enlarged and squared off to counteract the torque of the more powerful engines. Flown by Robert P. Schlaefli, the owner of SLAFCO, Inc.,

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Torque Rudder Airline Airlines

The Fenestron Factor: Cabri G2 Crash in Gruyéres

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

The pros and the cons: Cirrus SR22

Air Facts

JANUARY 13, 2025

No rudder trim. Like the lack of nose wheel steering, the lack of rudder trim has always bothered me. Theres a big, 300 horsepower Continental engine up front and it creates plenty of torque that needs to be offset in climb (which can take 25 minutes if youre going high).

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Airplanes Rudder Knot Pilot

Everything You Need To Know About Ailerons

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. The rotational force thats needed to move an object about an axis is called torque. The simplest formula for torque is: Torque = F x L L is the distance between the object and the axis of rotation, also called the moment arm. What Is an Aileron?

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis

Overcoming the Five Most Common Landing Errors

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

Remember that torque will be created as power is applied; therefore, it will be necessary to use rudder pressure to keep the airplane straight as it settles onto the runway. When ballooning is excessive, it is best to EXECUTE A GO-AROUND IMMEDIATELY; DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SALVAGE THE LANDING.

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Airplanes Runway Accelerated Stall Lift

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

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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. These controls work in harmony to navigate the aircraft through various flight maneuvers.

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Torque Lift Airplanes Stability

When Push Comes to Shove

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

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. Quickly dropping the water rudders, I reduced the throttle to idle, giddy with the release from our muddy prison.

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Airplanes Torque Tail Pilot

When Push Comes to Shove

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

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. Quickly dropping the water rudders, I reduced the throttle to idle, giddy with the release from our muddy prison.

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Airplanes Torque Tail Pilot

A Crowded House for the Widow of Reading

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The chirping we heard was due to excess torque-related motion of the powerplant in the engine compartment. Ray later found that the nuts securing the remaining three mounts were insufficiently torqued by whomever mounted that engine before the Williamson Flying Club bought the airplane in 2021. It was undamaged, it just came apart.

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Torque Airplanes Clearance Horizontal Stabilizer

The Role of Newton’s Third Law in Aviation

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

The complication with helicopters is that the main rotor is driven by an engine that applies a twisting force (torque) to spin it. This is called torque reaction, and if its left unchecked, the helicopter fuselage will spin in the opposite direction of the main rotor. These rotors create equal and opposite torques that cancel out.

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Lift Torque Thrust Aileron

A Visit with Elmer: Spending an Afternoon With a World War II P-51 Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

After shutting down and being towed back to the hangar, he discovered he had mistakenly set his rudder trim to the left instead of the right. Had he taken off in that configuration, the engines torque, P-factor, gyroscopic precession, and spiraling slipstream would have sent him into an uncontrollable left turnan almost certain disaster.

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Pilot Torque Rudder Runway

Power-on Stall: How to Recover

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Watch out for torque effect (especially if you are in high-powered aircraft) since the increase in power can cause the nose to yaw to the left. This requires rudder input to maintain directional control. If so, you don’t need to worry about this step. If you stalled with less power, add full power after reducing the angle of attack.

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Stability Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Lift

Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Another advantage of the counter-rotating props is the elimination of torque roll. This is the tendency to dig in the left tip float during takeoff while countering engine torque. An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right).

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