Pilot Institute

JULY 11, 2025

Ailerons can suffer from a phenomenon called “aileron buzz” or control reversal at high Mach. Monitoring Mach Number in the Cockpit Since IAS fails to accurately estimate speed at high altitudes, pilots switch to the Mach scale to manage their speed once they’re in a high-altitude cruise.

True Airspeed

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

The aircraft is even still operational to some degree, as pneumatic and air pressure systems in place of the hydraulic system still actuate the 727’s landing gear, flaps, slats, rudder, elevators, and right aileron! On the nose of the cockpit section, the aircraft also bears the name of Captain William R.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

JULY 22, 2025

After 800 hours of flying, with almost 50 different types in my logbook, there are several airplanes that I have felt one with—Game Aerospace’s GB1 GameBird , almost any member of the classic and modern day Cub species, and a very specific Cessna 170, just to name a few. I asked as I scoured the cockpit. Where the heck is it?”

Runway

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

The Main Parts of an Airplane While aircraft come in many designs and sizes, they all share several core components. It houses the cockpit, passenger seats (if applicable), and any cargo space. Cockpit: Where Control Happens Cockpit, also known as the flight deck , is the nerve center of the airplane.

Lift

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Learning the right types of aircraft maneuvers isn’t just about checking off boxes—it’s about building muscle memory, sharp instincts, and total confidence in the cockpit. These basic skills form the backbone of safe and effective flying and set the stage for everything you do in the cockpit.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

Velocity Andrews, North Carolina/Injuries: 1 Fatal NTSB Report: ERA23FA194 The owner recently purchased the experimental amateur-built, modified airplane. He did not have a lot of experience in the make and model airplane, so he hired the accident pilot to conduct the first flight since recent modifications.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 8, 2025

This can happen to any airplane type. Level the wings : Use coordinated rudder and aileron inputs. These practice sessions are vital for helping you recognize stall warnings, such as: Quieter cockpit. Do you know what causes aerodynamic stalls and how to prevent them? Apply full power: Increase the throttle to full.

Lift

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

These exercises aim to sharpen your skills and awareness in the cockpit. Ground reference maneuvers aim to train you to accurately control your airplane under various wind conditions. Be respectful, and remember that your airplane makes a lot of noise. As your airplane faces the crosswind, it will naturally drift inward.

Crosswind

Flying Magazine

JULY 17, 2025

Every day, the team at Aircraft For Sale chooses an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, a good deal, or has other qualities we find interesting. Rosen sun visors improve cockpit comfort and safety. You can read Aircraft For Sale: Today’s Top Pick at FLYINGMag.com daily.

Transponder

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But in Minden, Nebraska, just south of Interstate 80 and in the shadow of a row of grain elevators across the street and the railroad, there is an incredible collection of all manner of antiques, from historic buildings, cars, a steam locomotive, household appliances, and even airplanes. They can all be found in the Pioneer Village.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

MAY 8, 2025

Neglecting to Extend Landing Gear Distractions and workload pile up fast in the cockpit. Different airplane models use different landing gear position indicators. Most airplanes have a warning horn that goes off when youre already configured for landing but the gear still isnt down and locked.

Air Traffic Control

Pilot Institute

MARCH 17, 2025

A safety pilot is a licensed pilot who acts as an extra pair of eyes and ears in the cockpit. For example, if the flight takes place in a single-engine land airplane, you need a corresponding rating on your pilot certificate. If youre asking these questions, youre on the right track. For now, lets break things down one step at a time.

Pilot

AV Web

MAY 20, 2025

In fact, the current Airplane Flying Handbook (AFH) contains just three instances of the word, each of which is associated with responding to an in-flight emergency. Knowing what to do ahead of time helps prevent the kind of in-cockpit panic that can lead to paralysis by analysis and other undesirable human factors. What About You?

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The pilots of both the RNAS and the RFC loved the performance of their Pups for its light weight, good climb rate, and excellent agility (owing largely to its low wing loading and in having ailerons on both sets of its wings). Pictured is Squadron Commander E.H.

Flight Deck

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Even before the First World War erupted, the armies of Europe were beginning to recognize the potential of airplanes for military purposes, though largely as a way to support ground armies through reconnaissance as opposed to fighting one another in the air. Flying controls were only fitted in the rear cockpit. 2 for its first flight.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 16, 2025

The ailerons were originally controlled by a shoulder yoke (with the pilot leaning left and right) in the aft cockpit, but were replaced by a wheel, stick, or yoke by this D model. It could be fitted with a turtle-deck behind the cockpits to serve as an air ambulance. An estimated 95% of U.S.

Cockpit

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

While hover taxing on the taxiway, NTSB reports, a Cessna airplane taxied onto the same taxiway. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. There, the airplane landed without further incident. at Marana, Arizona, on 2021s first day.

Pilot

Air Facts

JULY 4, 2025

Beginning almost forty years ago, I spent time in the cockpit with a series of pilots whose influence I have only recently come to appreciate. During the most enjoyable three days I’ve ever spent in an airplane, Kershner immersed me in the art and science of aerobatics. I’ve been a lucky man, indeed. He was the real McCoy.

Tarmac

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the case of certain passengers, a flight may represent the first time they have ever been onboard an airplane, generating feelings of excitement and trepidation in equal measure about what may lie ahead. For others, flying on a commercial airliner may be a once-a-year event when heading off on vacation.

Cabin Crew

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

It actually flew fine, and it flies like a normal airplane. Although it is sort of heavy on the ailerons,” Storo said. “Sitting so high up and trying to look down inside the cockpit for the airspeed is nearly impossible. I can control it now with the Red Line Brakes, but this airplane is not built for crosswinds.

Crosswind

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 15, 2025

Discovering the Depth of the Work Once the project began in earnest, the team discovered a long list of issues that needed to be addressedfrom failing aileron linkages to worn-out plumbing. We had aileron linkage problems, wing fold lockdown problemsthe list is massive, McMahon said. That was a fairly recent install.

Aileron

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Landing an airplane can be one of the most nerve-wracking tasks for a student pilot. Getting an airplane to fly is easy. When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. The post How to Land an Airplane appeared first on Pilot Institute.

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Learn the basic structure of an airplane while in flight school at Leopard Aviation. From the navigation display to the wing structure, understanding all segments of an airplane is crucial in the aviation industry. This long, metal tube connects all the main components of an airplane. What are the basic parts of this section?

Horizontal Stabilizer

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

Piper PA-28-180 Riverside, California/Injuries: 1 Minor NTSB Report: WPR23LA156 The pilot completed the airplanes engine run-up and carburetor heat function checks with no anomalies noted. Velocity Andrews, North Carolina/Injuries: 1 Fatal NTSB Report: ERA23FA194 The owner recently purchased the experimental amateur-built, modified airplane.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When you’re starting to feel human again after major surgery, what’s a good plan for getting safely back into the cockpit? It wasn’t until I got in the car that I realized that I was completely exhausted, even though I had no fatigue symptoms in the airplane. I had a total knee replacement. So what did I observe?

Pitot Tube

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 6, 2024

In this new guise, with its cockpit pushed four feet further aft, N5111N was designated as a Boeing Model 299Z. image by Jason Fuller) MA: “So we were just saying that after the accident, the airplane came back to Douglas and he had to face a tough decision, rebuild the airplane or not.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The mechanic flew the airplane he’d flown back as well. I was hoping for one of the PA-18s, but the only airplane available was the PA-12. The dirt and gravel on the floor and the contents of the ashtray were now making their way to the top of the cockpit. The mechanic asked me to tell no one about what had happened.

Descent

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Richard Shuttleworth obtained it in 1935 as his first historic airplane. It is generally recognized as the world’s oldest airplane with the earliest aero-engine in flying condition. James Kightly] The cockpit of the last Blriot built, constructed by the craftsmen of the Blriot factory in 1921 and gifted to Louis.

Weight-Shift-Control

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

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. The plane has no internal radio, so cockpit and external communications were running through a portable intercom plugged into a portable radio.

Runway

Fear of Landing

MARCH 1, 2024

The Cessna 172S crashed into the ground, destroying the cockpit. The fuselage was crushed and the wings only partially attached to the fuselage, with damage to the ailerons and flaps. However, the cables from the cockpit controls to the flight surfaces were still attached and all of the damage seems to have happened on impact.

Descent

Flying Magazine

JUNE 16, 2025

These flying law enforcement officers pilot helicopters and airplanes in support of troopers on the ground. The pilot has an iPhone to use as a screen for orientation mounted just above eye level on the left side of the cockpit, while in the back seat the tactical flight officer (TFO) controls the FLIR and handles coordination with troopers.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Ice can affect everything from how the airplane flies to the engines staying functional. It usually happens when you’re flying through freezing rain, where raindrops spread out and freeze upon hitting the cold surface of your airplane. If ice starts building up on your aircraft, you’re looking at a serious problem.

Pitot Tube

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

Unable to turn, climb, or descend the aircraft using conventional flight control inputs and effectively left to fly an unflyable airplane, the crew were forced to rely on engine power alone to find and reach a suitable airfield and attempt a landing. With 296 passengers and crew onboard that day, the stakes could not have been higher.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

I want it because I want to travel through time and I want to fly a difficult airplane and I want to feel the wind when I fly and I want people to look, to see, to know that glory still exists. “While I still owned the Fairchild, the son of a previous owner – Scott Gupton – reached out to me to share the airplane’s history.

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

82 Tiger Moth, the airplane that trained thousands of pilots from across the British Empire to take to the air in World War II. Frustrated at work, in 1909 he received a gift of 1,000 pounds from his grandfather to build his first airplane, just a few years after the Wright brothers had made their first flight.

Airplanes

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 29, 2024

It was not long before he had earned his license and bought his first airplane, a Cessna 140. The airplane shuddered under the fire. He reported back that both ailerons were in the full-up position. It was my co-pilot back in the cockpit again. It was just a great airplane. We got hit pretty hard.

Cargo

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

With the introduction of the Cirrus SR22T in 2010, general aviation had a truly modern, high-flying, personal airplane that could fly at over 200 mph and make reliable long-distance travel a reality for the single-engine piston set. The ailerons, elevators, and rudder featured fabric covering stretched over lightweight aluminum frames.

Rudder