Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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. At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off. “The first flight was kind of interesting.

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Airplanes Crosswind Tail Cockpit 124

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

These exercises aim to sharpen your skills and awareness in the cockpit. In the traffic pattern, youll need to ensure that you maintain a course in relation to the runway. In the traffic pattern, this is the runway. Use coordinated aileron and rudder pressures to swiftly, but not excessively, angle into this turn.

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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 little plane leapt into the air almost immediately as the wind seemingly swirled from every direction along the 5,000-foot runway.

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Runway Crosswind Rudder Pilot 98

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

The small aileron “tabs” were not doing a great job in crosswind ability. On the downwind to the westerly runway at LOWI, I experienced a lot of up and down drafts, shear, varying winds, and sloppy controls. In the CRJ you can not hear any engines from the cockpit, making for an odd audio sensation.

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Crosswind Weather Knot Aileron 105

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I called Lawson Tower and was cleared for taxi and mid-runway takeoff on Runway 15. The dirt and gravel on the floor and the contents of the ashtray were now making their way to the top of the cockpit. Turning back to Lawson, I looked around the cockpit and checked the instruments for anything out of order.

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Descent Lift Runway Cockpit 88

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? There was a nice crosswind, and I demonstrated landing on a concrete expansion joint, offset from the runway centerline. Then off to the other runway for a full stop. I had a total knee replacement.

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Pitot Tube Approach Aileron Instrument Landing System 80

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But landing it safely on the runway is a skill. When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift.

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Airplanes Descent Approach Runway 52

Fear of Landing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Birr Airfield has just one runway, a grass strip of 570 metres (1,870 feet) running north-south. The runway was firm, although he noticed that his shoes were wet after the inspection. He briefed the pilot on the cockpit instruments and best speeds for take-off, climb and glide. They accelerated along the runway.

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Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It can also cause control surfaces like ailerons and flaps to function improperly, making the aircraft harder to maneuver. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. But how dangerous is it? After starting the engine, the oil pressure will take longer to rise.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The primary flight controls on the DC-10 (ailerons, rudder, elevators, spoilers) were all operated by hydraulic pressure and the first officer was quick to realize that his controls were unresponsive to his inputs. Touchdown At 16:00 the airplane touched down on the runway threshold to the left of the centerline.

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Runway Horizontal Stabilizer Airline Airlines 301

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. The plane’s mechanic, known as a plane captain, was up on the wing and helped me settle into the cockpit.

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Cockpit Rudder Tail Indicated Airspeed 98

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. But you can see the change to separate ailerons and flaps is just one part of preparing the F2 to grow into a four-place airplanebuying aerodynamic benefits now to spend later on a heavier, more powerful model. Out back, theres an entirely new tail.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Student pilots get a free pass, because theyre adorable skittering off runways in Loss of Directional Control (LODC) events that vex the best among us. During the second landing attempt, NTSB notes, the airplane touched down and bouncedmultiple times as it continued down the runway and subsequently nosed over. Sorta the Wrong Runway?

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