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STELIA Aerospace OPERA ESSENTIAL: “Sustainable” Business Class Seat

One Mile at a Time

Embracing this shift and breaking new grounds, STELIA Aerospace presents a revolutionary concept — a sustainable, entirely autonomous seat, responsive to the passenger’s movements. So seat movement isn’t controlled by anything electronic, but rather the seat moves based on the passenger’s movement.

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Mastering Short Field Landings (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Pilot Institute

Aircraft Weight and Limitations An aircraft’s weight affects inertia and stopping distance. The POH lists landing distances for specific gross weights. Smaller aircraft may only have short field landing distances for maximum gross weight. This is because there is less airflow over the control surfaces.

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What Are Common Part 107 Test Questions?

Flying Magazine

The remote pilot must have prior authorization from the Air Traffic Control (ATC) facility having jurisdiction over that airspace. The remote pilot must monitor the Air Traffic Control (ATC) frequency from launch to recovery. The remote pilot must contact the Air Traffic Control (ATC) facility after launching the unmanned aircraft.

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COMBAT VIETNAM: The Threat Inside My Aircraft

Vintage Aviation News

Otherwise, our maintenance guys’ corrosion control team would rip me a new one. Besides, we had our hands full, fighting to maintain control of the airplane. That meant balancing aerodynamic forces on the flight controls with a large “trim wheel” linked by cables to tabs on the aft edge of our horizontal tail. Descent check!”

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Java Jive

AV Web

During the past few interactions I had with Frank, I had to endure his discussion of how much he, his insufferable wife, and bratty kid spent last month during their flying vacation to the Bahamas, along with an even more uncomfortable series of comments denigrating all Air Traffic Controllers from here to Bimini for their oafishness and stupidity.

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How to Improve Your Landings

Pilot Institute

Watch out for some common mistakes, such as over-controlling and reacting incorrectly to visual cues. Approach Path Control Energy Management How to Improve Approach Path Control Using Ground References Your pattern work will improve the more you standardize it. Adjust power to control your descent rate.

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Albinati Aeronautics

Professional Pilot

Dassault’s advanced Digital Flight Control System enhances crew resource management. A further response to this shifting of demand is that Albinati Aeronautics now offers a carbon offset program with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) worldwide for its customers. Background Falcon 6X has a range of 5500 nm.

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