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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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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Weight-Shift-Control Air Traffic Control Aeronautical Decision-Making Density Altitude 116

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

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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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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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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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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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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Clearance Runway Air Traffic Control Pilot 52

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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Clearance Air Traffic Control Airplanes Transponder 52

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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Lift Drag Air Traffic Control Tail 312

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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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

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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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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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 86

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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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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Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

Air Force One is perhaps the most recognizable Boeing in the sky, providing lift for the president of the United States and their entourage—and it’s due for replacement. Air Force/Senior Airman Ryan Crane] Can We Track Air Force One on FlightAware? At the end of President Dwight D.

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