Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Langewiesche provides one of the clearest expositions of aerodynamics and flight control, breaking down concepts like angle of attack, lift, stability, and stalls. Key themes: The text was first published during the mid-20th century, yet its clear explanations remain applicable for anyone who wants to grasp basic flight principles.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Energy is always required for acceleration, to overcome air drag, as well as rolling and friction resistance of wheels on road and rail, and for “lifting work”, i.e., working against gravity. It must be noted that energy to overcome air drag is only required when the movement takes place in an atmospheric environment.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Depending on other traffic ahead, not least at the destination, air traffic controllers (ATC) will clear the flight to descend in stages, to be level at certain waypoints on the arrival route. This may be accompanied by the deployment of spoilers on top of the wing.

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Plane and Pilot

JUNE 15, 2025

Witness statements and recorded video showed that during the takeoff roll from the 5,500-foot-long asphalt runway, the airplane accelerated slower than normal, used more runway than normal, and lifted off the runway in a nose-high attitude. It climbed about 300 feet above ground level while flying a left traffic pattern back to the runway.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Understanding the Basics of Flight Aerodynamics 101 Flying a small plane revolves around understanding four key forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Lift is generated by the wings as air flows over them, counteracting weight, which pulls the plane downward due to gravity.

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Fear of Landing

AUGUST 2, 2024

As they were already at take-off speed and with most of the runway behind them, the crew continued in hopes of getting the aircraft into the air. Eventually, the video shows the Boeing gain enough airspeed to lift off and climb away. This transition of lifting off is called rotation.

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Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Kate Fleeger, Program Manager for the H-53 Heavy Lift Helicopters Program Office (PMA-261), highlighted the Sea Dragon’s critical role. The MH-53E has two primary missions; Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) and Navy heavy lift/Vertical Onboard Delivery (VOD). For Webb, this event was deeply personal.

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Lift Air Traffic Control Pilot 85

Flying Magazine

MAY 8, 2025

READ MORE: Live Air Traffic Control Services Can Enhance Your Flight Sim Experience I searched for lessons on YouTube, of which there are many, but eventually was led to a group course taught by FlightSimCoach.com that is delivered over Zoom by a CFI. Most avionics systems are an easy lift for these instructors.

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Cockpit Pilot Air Traffic Control Approach 71

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

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. 2: Which technique should a remote pilot use to scan for traffic?

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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Approach speeds typically range from 80 to 90 knots depending on weight and flap settings, while full flaps are often used to provide the necessary lift during landing. Understanding these features will help you perform a controlled and safe landing, ensuring you manage the aircrafts speed, altitude, and approach angle appropriately.

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Air Facts

MAY 8, 2024

Glider Towing – How do I get out of This Mess Air Facts Journal An airborne challenge that arose whilst towing gliders for the Australian, Southern Cross Gliding Club in Camden, New South Wales. We lifted off without issue and commenced the climb. It’s a Cessna 182 – what could possibly go wrong?

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Lift Air Traffic Control Checkride Tail 98

Plane and Pilot

JUNE 2, 2025

Witness statements and recorded video showed that during the takeoff roll from the 5,500-foot-long asphalt runway, the airplane accelerated slower than normal, used more runway than normal, and lifted off the runway in a nose-high attitude. It climbed about 300 feet above ground level while flying a left traffic pattern back to the runway.

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Instrument Meteorological Conditions Airplanes Runway Pilot 87

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

These maneuvers include an engine failure on takeoff, loss of lift on the wing during departure, en route, and approach, crosswind landings, wind shear scenarios, engine inoperative landings, low visibility landings, crash landings and evacuation. This is not training; this is a pass or fail check.

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Aeroclass Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Therefore, it is vital for the pilots, air traffic control , and other aviation personnel to be familiar and clear with the airport layout and regulations, especially the critical and busy areas including the runways and the taxiways. Each of these runways has the same heading of 274.4

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Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

They will also communicate with air traffic control about any flight safety alerts should an issue arise with the electronic flight instrument displays. Generate Lift With Airplane Wings One of the most valuable airplane parts that connect to the fuselage is the wings. Call us at (480) 605-4539 for more information.

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Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

It was common practice for tower controllers to monitor the area control centre enroute frequency. It was a winter night shift in a Western Ontario air traffic control tower. One controller on duty was the norm on most snowy nights when most of the flying activities had ended for the day.

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Pilot's Life Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

These include aerodynamics, flight theory , navigation, meteorology, air law, and aircraft systems. Aerodynamics and Flight Theory : Youll learn the basic principles behind flight, including the four forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Air Law : Knowing the rules of the sky is essential for every pilot.

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Pilot's Life Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Contrary to popular belief, airplane taxiing does not include the moments right before takeoff where the plane’s speed continues to accelerate until it lifts off the ground or touchdown as the plane slows to a halt after landing. It uses a propulsion system comprising propellers or jet engines to navigate at a certain set speed limit.

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Flight Training Central

JULY 29, 2024

They’re routinely reviewing pilot reports and asking Air Traffic Control (ATC) for reports of turbulence, and they’ll go so far as to change their route of flight or altitude fairly dramatically to find smooth air. And stability is what we’re really talking about with most turbulence.

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Flight Training Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For an instrument pilot, though, there is one key difference between a smaller, non-towered airport and a larger one with an air traffic control tower: obtaining an IFR clearance. After takeoff, talk to Air Traffic Control (ATC) to transition into the en route environment. Today there’s a better way.

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Photographic Logbook

JULY 14, 2024

As WFC President, he humbly suggested that I could legitimately use the callsign "Williamson One" with air traffic control. The extra precautious were probably unnecessary; Warrior 481 lifted off quickly and climbed skyward with plenty of runway remaining. Call me a coward, but I did not put that to a test.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

MBekir / Shutterstock.com The person behind the project was an engineer named Richard Whitcombe who found his wingtip inspiration when he noticed that “birds in flight curled their wingtip feathers upward when seeking greater lift”.

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Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Air Traffic Management Over the decades, NASA has developed a number of air traffic management simulation tools, including: Center TRACON Automation System (CTAS) – 1990s: CTAS is a suite of software tools developed by NASA that generates new information for air traffic controllers.

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Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Downstream consumers of bleed air include cabin environmental and pressurization systems, anti-ice and de-ice systems, and in some cases charging accumulators associated with hydraulic, fuel, or water systems. Pilots need to be very proficient with air traffic control procedures and in radio communication.

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Aerotime

JUNE 13, 2025

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) would later advise that, before impact, the flight crew gave a MAYDAY call, but when air traffic control replied, there was no response. The full sequence from take-off to crash—final moments of Air India 171 captured on CCTV.

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Aerotime

AUGUST 23, 2024

The useful parts of advanced air mobility — autonomous flight and digital air traffic control — will enable cargo and then passenger flights with even lower operational costs.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2025

Considering the possibility that legislation may be reintroduced to lift the ceiling on mandatory airline pilot retirement age, that topic of cockpit conversation may not be uncommon. But based on recent ICAO agendas, it would seem the organization is seriously considering lifting the ceiling.

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Flying Magazine

JUNE 12, 2025

Terrifying final moments of Air India Flight AI 171 crashing into a residential area in Ahmedabad today. Clearly catastrophic loss of lift. According to air traffic control, the crash happened at approximately 1:29 p.m. The tower controllers asked for more information and did not get a response. local time.

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Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Pilot Flying gently applies back pressure on the control column, pitching the aircraft nose up to transition from rolling on the ground to flying in the air. This transition of lifting off is called rotation. The air traffic controller asked them to move their holding pattern further to the west.

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Ask the Pilot

JUNE 14, 2025

Most notably, one of the pilots, in a mayday call to air traffic control, reported power loss to air traffic control. Flaps, which extend from the trailing edge of the wing, together with slats, which extend from the front, provide critical lift at low speeds. Then we have the landing gear.

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Air Facts

MAY 1, 2024

I started my flight instruction at a flight school at a Class D airport and quickly learned that while air traffic control offers some great radio practice, you do pay for the time the propeller is spinning and you can waste a lot of time on the taxiway or just holding short while the meter is running (Hobbs).

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Air Facts

JUNE 7, 2024

I thought that I would like to see for myself what was happening and use the training I had been given to assist the people in the cockpits doing the heavy lifting. The characterizations of what was going on over there were all over the place. Two months later, I was on my way to Vietnam. But the reality of the horror of war was also there.

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Airplanes Weather Air Traffic Control Pilot 98

Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 13, 2023

A Dunkin' in Jasper, GA made for makeshift flight planning space as we waited on fog to lift at Pickens County Airport. The weather was visibly lifting and he assured them that their chartered aircraft would return. It was one of the most baffling exchanges with Air Traffic Control that I had ever overheard.

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Photographic Logbook

JANUARY 25, 2025

As Warrior 481 lifted us to a cruise altitude of 7,500 feet, the first hint of the sunrise came in the form of a massive fireball turned vermillion by miles of low haze between us and the horizon. Fireball Date Aircraft Route of Flight Time (hrs) Total (hrs) 25 Jan 2024 N21481 SDC (Sodus, NY) - B18 (Alton Bay, NH) - LCI (Laconia, NH) - SDC 5.8

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Photographic Logbook

AUGUST 3, 2024

Unless the weather lifted before we arrived, there would be no getting into Port Huron. This inspired a long discussion with Alyssa about the value of flight following and why we use the optional service from air traffic control. It was the infamous Zilwaukee Bridge that was built between 1979 and 1988.

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Airplanes Runway Weather Approach 93

Pilot Institute

MAY 21, 2025

Todays heavy-lift UAVs can carry weighty cargo, multiple passengers, and even small vehicles. Drones capable of lifting nearly 500 lbs can transport materials, equipment, and goods across large distances and diverse terrain. These heavy-lift drones are changing logistics, medical, transportation, and agricultural industries.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Many factors can trigger evaporational cooling, where the cooled air sinks and weakens the updraft. With nothing left to lift it, the core has nowhere else to go but down. When you fly into a microburst on approach or departure, youll first encounter a strong headwind, which will give you a brief lift.

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