CFI Academy

MARCH 28, 2025

Heres what they are and what you need to understand about each: Crossed-Control Stall What It Is: This stall occurs when the aircraft is in a skidding turn, typically with ailerons applied in one direction and rudder in the opposite direction (e.g., left aileron, right rudder). How to Perform: Enter a turn (e.g.,

Aileron

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

According to witness statements given to the NTSB, “the airplane made a normal approach to the runway, and when it was over the end of the runway, it leveled off about 50 [feet] above the runway and flew straight down the runway for several hundred feet. The Accident Around 11:30 a.m. The right wing remained attached to the fuselage.

Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC)

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Understanding Crosswind Components Mastering the crosswind landing technique starts with understanding what a crosswind is and how it affects your aircraft during approach and landing. Understanding this allows you to plan your approach accordingly and choose the best landing technique.

Crosswind

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2025

For climbing, full or recommended climb power is usually employed, and for descent or landing approach, a power setting that produces the desired descent rate is selected. Putting your right foot on the rudder pedal and neutralizing the ailerons cancels the drag and the VS1 goes up a little more.

Descent

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Initiating the Turn: Smoothly apply aileron input to roll into a 45-50 degree bank angle. Rolling Out: As you approach your desired heading, smoothly release the bank and return the aircraft to level flight. Coordination Difficulties: Keeping the turn coordinated with proper rudder and aileron use can be tricky at first.

Pilot

Inflight Pilot Training

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This regimented approach can be beneficial for students pursuing aviation as a full-time career, as it is often designed to meet airline and professional pilot training standards. Your instructor will introduce you to the basic components of the aircraft, including the fuselage, wings, ailerons, rudder, elevator, and landing gear.

Aileron

Flying Magazine

JUNE 18, 2025

The company says the fiberglass tanks also provide lower stall speed and increased aileron authority. But as with any airplane, a good (and safe) landing begins with a stable approach that’s on speed. It had speedbrakes, flap and aileron gap seals, and vortex generators, plus a dual control yoke. Learn more at www.d-shannon-aviation.com.

Gross Weight

Northstar VFR

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Just remember the acronym PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite of the spin, and Elevator forward. The nose pitches up, sometimes aggressively because of how the airplane was trimmed on final approach and all your flaps are generally still down (lots of lift there). So how do you recover from a spin? What happens next?

Pilot

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. Ailerons, located on the wings, control the plane’s roll. Elevators, found on the tail, manage its pitch, or up-and-down motion.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 26, 2025

You will still have full aileron control by moving your arm side to side, and you’ll have brakes too.” After ensuring short final was clear, I lined up on centerline, added right aileron to counteract the always present crosswind, and advanced the throttle. What an interesting concept, I thought.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. In my glass-cockpit airplane, on an instrument approach, there are a number of things to be set and to look out for. But there are variations from plane to plane.

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

A power-off 180 is a critical maneuver that simulates an engine failure on final approach, requiring pilots to glide the aircraft and execute a precise 180-degree turn to a safe landing spot. Maintain the proper approach speed to maximize glide distance, typically the best glide speed for your aircraft.

Pilot

CFI Academy

MARCH 28, 2025

Here’s what they are and what you need to understand about each: Crossed-Control Stall What It Is: This stall occurs when the aircraft is in a skidding turn, typically with ailerons applied in one direction and rudder in the opposite direction (e.g., left aileron, right rudder). How to Perform: Enter a turn (e.g.,

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 23, 2025

The Bonanza lay crumpled up in an empty lot just 2,400 feet from the approach end of the runway. An immediate strong correction to the left might have salvaged the approach. Yet despite his experience, he did not attempt to correct the approach. Moments later, the airplane crashed. All three occupants were killed on impact.

True Airspeed

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Lets break down the main control surfaces and how they use action-reaction: Ailerons Ailerons are flaps placed on the wings trailing edges. They work in opposite pairs: when one aileron goes up, the other goes down. The raised aileron on the right wing deflects airflow upward ( action ).

Torque

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Sure, the economics put the airplane in the high-value category in the wild world of 2024 aviation, but this approach ignores what it’s like to fly the RV-12. On the walkaround, you doubtlessly noted the full-span flaperons (flaps plus ailerons as one unit). Vso approach speed is 53 knots. It actually feels slower.

Airplanes

Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 13, 2025

This leads to unstable approaches, excessive pitch changes, and increased workload in the cockpit. Forgetting to apply rudder and aileron corrections simultaneously. Use the correct technique: crab into the wind on approach and transition to a side-slip just before touchdown. Feeling overwhelmed during short final and flare.

Pilot

Northstar VFR

MARCH 30, 2025

Lets take a look at these ground reference maneuvers: 1.

Groundspeed

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 20, 2025

On the landing approach, Saari, tightened the strap on his goggles, opened the cockpit, and stuck his head into the slipstream to see the runway, setting the Thunderbolt down safely and rolling to a stop. Saari had no forward visibility, and flew on instruments for the 50-minute flight home.

Tail

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Types of Stalls: At Leopard Aviation, we cover power-on stalls, simulating situations like takeoff stalls, and power-off stalls, similar to approach or landing configurations. Leopard Aviation’s Training Approach At Leopard Aviation, our training is designed to be structured, personalized, and practical.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

After a low pass for the public and the press that had gathered to watch, Captain Thomas made the approach on runway 36 north. (Historic Chicago) On September 28, 1992, the Boeing 727 took off from Chicagos OHare International Airport on the short flight to Meigs.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

MARCH 31, 2025

Mike began doing “minor” restorations on Stearmans, such as aileron recovery, wingtip repairs, and ground loop damage remediation. When working on historical aircraft restoration, Mike Porter takes a balanced approach by blending authenticity with user-friendliness. He stayed the course.

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

The batteries provided so much cranking power that both cold and hot starts never even approached engine temperature limits. Walkaround Approaching the E1000 AX one gets a sense of its true size—it is 35 feet, 10 inches long and 12 feet, 10 inches tall, with a 43-foot wingspan.

Rudder

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Fisher Body’s approach to speed up production was innovative: it aimed to repurpose components from other existing aircraft. Other issues included insufficient engine cooling, excessive aileron forces at high speeds, and poor spin recovery.

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

He replaced the two-cylinder, horizontally opposed Detroit Aero 25hp engine with a three-cylinder Szekely SR-3 45-hp radial engine, and in 1935, he changed out the wooden fuselage frame for a tubular steel one, and removed the pulleys and cables for wing warping and added ailerons to the wings.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

The right aileron sustained substantial damage. Recorded track data revealed that the pilot began a descent to the destination airport and crossed over the approach end of the runway on a heading perpendicular to the runway heading. The lowest weather minimums for the approach required at least one mile visibility.

Instrument Meteorological Conditions

Pilot Institute

MAY 8, 2025

You’re on your final approach and suddenly realize your landing gear isnt down. Later, as you approach your destination, you’ll need to extend the gear again for landing. The approach phase is an especially busy time, with multiple tasks happening at once. Approach & Touchdown Keep your approach steady.

Air Traffic Control

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

PARE: Power idle, Ailerons neutral, Rudder opposite, Elevator forward. Ailerons: Neutral. A – Ailerons The second step in the spin recovery procedure is to move the ailerons to the neutral position. The movement of the ailerons will change the angle of attack of both wings. Ready to become a safer pilot?

Center of Gravity

Flying Magazine

JUNE 30, 2025

Ailerons are actuated by pushrods that run through the wing struts, reducing aerodynamic drag and giving the responsive ailerons a solid feel. The pushrod ailerons are solid and quick, and nicely harmonized with the elevator and rudder. As would be expected, there is adverse aileron yaw, but much less than we anticipated.

Gross Weight

AV Web

MAY 20, 2025

The base had switched runways from Runway 35 to Runway 17, so that when I came back into the base I was approaching the traffic pattern from the north. But I somehow had it fixed in my mind that I was approaching from the south, to Runway 35. Never mind the instruments that showed me flying south. No one did that, by the way.

Runway

Pilot Institute

MARCH 17, 2025

Suppose you and another pilot practice simulated instrument approaches in a Cessna 172. However, 14 CFR 91.109 says that simulated instrument training can be done in an airplane with a single throwover control wheel for the elevator and ailerons instead of dual controls for those controls. Here are examples to guide you. hours PIC : 1.7

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Luckily, he and his crew had earlier spotted an unmarked airfield and made an approach for it. Bull’s inexperience with twin-engine aircraft in general made it difficult for him to maintain control. While they had a radio onboard, none of the three men had experience working it, and flew it straight in for a landing.

Aileron

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

As he approached the herd, with the intention of driving the cattle into the corral, the bull departed and headed toward an area covered with heavy mesquite brush. Everyone loves a good western yarn, so imagine Sam Elliott spinning this here tale from Hachita, New Mexico, with accompanying guitar and gentle edits for brevity and local color.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 6, 2025

Adam Estes) As the 1980s approached, the aircraft itself was nearly 40 years old at a time when business jets became more affordable for companies such as Union 76 to purchase or charter for their purposes. On June 30, 1963, the aircraft was re -registered with the FAA as N760 and continued to be in service for Union 76.

Aileron

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 16, 2025

The restoration of this rare twin-engine transport continues at an impressive pace, with major mechanical systems now operational and numerous airframe, cockpit, and fuel system components approaching final completion. The ailerons have been installed and are currently 60% rigged. Flaps are fully installed as well.

Aileron

Flight Training Central

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Denotes area protected for an aircraft approaching or departing a runway. Aileron up on the downwind wing Aileron up on the upwind wing Aileron down on the upwind wing Correct! Aileron up on the downwind wing Aileron up on the upwind wing Aileron down on the upwind wing Correct! lean the mixture.

Density Altitude

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

Wing warping,” as this approach was called, was satisfactory for very slow airplanes, but faster ones required more rigidity, and by around 1908 or 1909 the idea had arisen of replacing part of the trailing edge of a wing with a hinged, controllable flap. The wind hits the deflected surface of the aileron and pushes on it.

Aileron