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 ). It provides yaw control.

Torque

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

The aircraft had to land into a 15-knot crosswind, and the plane landed at a speed of 115 mph, well below the standard landing speed of between 150-175 mph. (Historic Chicago) On September 28, 1992, the Boeing 727 took off from Chicagos OHare International Airport on the short flight to Meigs.

Cockpit

Air Facts

JULY 7, 2025

I dug into concepts like relative wind, positive static stability, load factors in turns, and maneuvering speed. In the chapter on stability—titled “What the Airplane Wants to Do”—Langewiesche gives stability a kind of personality. “An The rudder is the “servant” of the ailerons. It’s a simple but powerful framework.

Rudder

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Inconvenienced but unstoppable, the airplanes right wing and aileron were substantially damaged, though the damage did not prohibit the airplane from being able to fly, despite the airplane feeling out of trim and a little heavier on one side. Bounce twice, go around, because youre doing something wrong. No mention of IPC results.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

The small aileron “tabs” were not doing a great job in crosswind ability. Landing was wild, leading to the aircraft’s big wings striking the ground at times in the crosswinds approaching 35 knots. Older jets without winglets or shorter wingspans are much faster in roll and lack some stability in bank.

Crosswind

Flight Training Central

MARCH 29, 2024

Quartering tailwind Quartering headwind Direct crosswind Correct! What is the difference between a normal landing and a crosswind landing? Aileron down on the upwind wing Aileron up on the upwind wing Aileron up on the downwind wing Correct! In your logbook (paper or electronic).

Aileron

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

The rudder is a movable flight control which is mounted on the trailing edge of the vertical stabilizer on the back of the airplane. Some new student pilots think the rudder and vertical stabilizer are the same thing. The vertical stabilizer is a vertical fixed part of the plane’s empennage. Why is the rudder so important?

Rudder

Pilot Institute

JULY 12, 2024

The easiest way to achieve this is by flying a stabilized approach. So, what is a stabilized approach? A stabilized approach requires the pilot to establish and maintain a constant angle glidepath towards an aiming point. Flying the Base Leg All aircraft land into the wind, so the base leg usually involves some crosswind.

Descent

Flight Training Central

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Adjust pitch and power for the desired airspeed and approach angle.The approach should be stabilized on the extended runway centerline no lower than 300’ AGL. At this time, it should be gently lowered.Maintain directional control and crosswind correction with appropriate rudder aileron input.

Approach

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

If there is a crosswind at the airport, you should mention this in your brief. Discuss your nominated crosswind technique. Explain what aircraft input you will require to land the aircraft in the crosswind. For example, the crosswind is from left to right. You will either carry out the side-slip or de-crab technique.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

This gives you a safe buffer on the stall speed and plenty of time to stabilize. Will you need a crosswind correction? Not Applying Crosswind Controls Directional control becomes difficult when proper technique isn’t applied during crosswind conditions. These stick and rudder skills will help you with crosswind landings.

Weight-Shift-Control

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By doing so, a recognizable, firm input demonstrates that using all the aileron travel wasn’t the answer—those rudder pedals are not footrests. Constant manipulation of attitude and power while chasing errant airspeed are signs that a CFI needs to step in to stabilize things. No training block should ever be cast in stone. 1 priority.

Wind Shear

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By doing so, a recognizable, firm input demonstrates that using all the aileron travel wasn’t the answer—those rudder pedals are not footrests. Constant manipulation of attitude and power while chasing errant airspeed are signs that a CFI needs to step in to stabilize things. No training block should ever be cast in stone. 1 priority.

Wind Shear

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Sure, there are the removable wings and an unusual-for-an-RV stabilator out back for pitch control, but there’s nothing revolutionary in the concepts or execution. On the walkaround, you doubtlessly noted the full-span flaperons (flaps plus ailerons as one unit). The RV-12 is, of course, all metal.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

How an aircraft handles Dutch roll depends on its dynamic stability. The aircraft’s design influences its dynamic stability. To understand the aircraft’s response to a disturbance, you need to understand aerodynamic stability. There are two main types of stability: Static and Dynamic stability.

Stability

Airspeed Junkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These engines are arranged in four pods beneath the wings, a design that not only provides the necessary thrust but also helps delay stall onset, contributing to the aircraft’s stability and performance. The aircraft uses a system of six spoilerons on each wing for roll control, compensating for the lack of traditional ailerons.

Payload

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2025

That required the creation of a redesigned, shorter span aileron that resulted in a markedly increased roll rate. In an airplane with a great deal of adverse aileron yaw that challenges a pilot each time the airplane makes a turn? We are aware of some loss of control accidents immediately after liftoff with full flaps in crosswinds.

Gross Weight

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.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Combining the Gweduck’s advanced hull with its counter-rotating propellers means differential power allows crosswind water taxiing impossible in floatplanes along with higher hull-in-water taxiing speeds. “We Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. A not so obvious advantage is taxiing.

Airplanes