Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Many sim pilots also purchase dedicated peripherals to control the rudder and engines. Some devices also offer a basic level of rudder and throttle control. The twist grip allows control of the aircraft’s rudder by rotating the joystick handle. If you fly a lot of yoke-based airliners, the TCA Yoke is a great match.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying Wolfgang Langewiesche (1944) While not a history, per se, Stick and Rudder is a historic introduction to flight that has been used by flight students since some of the earliest days of organized flight training. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed Ben R.

Rudder

Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

A tailless aircraft may still have a fuselage and a vertical tail (fin and rudder). Tailless Yaw Control Vertical Stabilizers and Rudders In conventional aircraft, directional stability and controlling yaw is done by the vertical stabilizer. The rudder allows you to make controlled yaw movements. How does it manage yaw control?

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2010 I went to work for American Eagle Airlines and then joined Spirit in 2014.” There is a rudder bar for the co-pilot, but a pilot in training cannot taxi the aircraft. I met up with Jim Terry and flew his B-25 for a couple of years and we did air shows and rides from Florida to Alaska over those couple of years. Steve related.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

From simple mechanical linkages in small aircraft to high-tech fly-by-wire systems in airliners, ailerons have evolved with aviation itself. Adverse yaw is a side effect of aileron use, countered by rudder input. Commercial airliners fly at speeds above 300 knots but also need to be controllable at speeds below 150 knots.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

JULY 31, 2025

Aviation then was a realm of VOR needles, paper charts, and the pure joy of stick-and-rudder flight. The 2013 ATP 1,500-hour requirement for airline pilots raised training costs by turning flight schools into airline pipelines.

VOR

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

Adam Estes) Inside the museum one can find a former United Airlines Boeing 727-100 (registration number N7017U) hanging from the second story balcony. In 1991, N7017U was retired from United Airlines operational fleet, but instead of being scavenged for parts and scrapped, N7017U was donated to the Museum of Science and Industry.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

JUNE 23, 2025

A photograph of the airplane revealed that the bottom of the rudder was substantially damaged. Jim Wolper is an airline transport pilot and retired mathematics professor. During the landing, the PIC held back elevator pressure for as long as possible and the airplane landed upright. The airplane remained afloat after ditching.

Pilot

Air Facts

APRIL 9, 2025

Or imagine talking to experts on the ground, much like airline pilots do with dispatch: you might send a picture of erratic CHT readings on your engine monitor to your A&P, or text an experienced flight instructor about the weather up ahead. Do airlines even need windows anymore? Loss of focus can happen, and its insidious.

Weather

Northstar VFR

JUNE 8, 2025

ATC had vectored an Alaska Airlines to turn base just over my position, 1,000 ft above me. Recovering from a Nose-High Unusual Attitude: Simultaneously apply full power, level the wings with correct aileron/rudder pressure, and push forward on the controls to allow the airspeed to increase.

Turbulence

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

MAY 2, 2025

READ MORE: Airshow Pilot Rob Holland Killed in Accident Holland held an airline transport pilot certificate with ratings for airplane single-engine land, airplane single-engine sea, airplane multiengine land, and gliders. The rudder was intact, although the bottom of the control was crushed.

Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC)

Fear of Landing

MAY 9, 2025

The most recent case, when Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 experienced extreme turbulence in May 2024, led to thirty passengers injured and one death by a passenger who suffered a heart attack. Before that, the most recent turbulence-related passenger flight with a fatality in the NTSB database was United Airlines flight 826 in 1997.

Turbulence

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Pilots are taught to pitch for VMC, “the airspeed below which the rudder no longer has the authority to overcome the yaw caused by the critical engine being inoperative,” under specific criteria mandated by the FAA. NASA researchers found “concurrent task demands” present in a “great majority” of crew error airline accidents since 1990.

Knot

AV Web

MAY 11, 2025

I admitted using the autopilot and flight director a lot (I am an airline pilot, after all) but had never tried the “Smart Glide” button on my panel. I covered what we in the airline world used to call “op-specs,” which was short for operation specifications. My time was the one that put everybody to sleep.

Air Traffic Control

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In addition to repairing the left gear leg, the right gear and rudder were removed for recovering. Bill was a pilot for Eastern Airlines and he wore a toupee. With the airplane up on blocks and tied down in the hangar, I sent Andrew a photo. Looks good with retracts, he replies. Bill would love this. Do you know what that is?

Airplanes

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

Schiff, who is also an airline pilot and NAFI board member, provides expertise served up through humor and storytelling to help instructors develop as better teachers of flight. So when you reach 40 years as a flight instructor like Brian Schiff has, you have a lot of knowledge to share.

Rudder

AV Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

When I became an airline pilot at the beginning of 1979, the training classes and flight decks were male only clubs. How would you feel if you were one of the first three women flying for an airline and had to live on the flight decks I described? I gave tons of type rating, and ATP check rides in that box.

Flight Deck

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

While commercial airliners are made up of millions of individual components, the foundation of every airplanewhether a Boeing jet or a training aircraft like a Cessna 172 starts with the same key parts. The rudder helps control yaw (left or right movement of the nose), while the elevator manages pitch (up or down movement of the nose).

Lift

Inflight Pilot Training

MARCH 30, 2025

Better stick-and-rudder control, smoother handling, and more exact navigation, even during VFR flights. During training, youll hone your ability to hold precise headings, altitudes, airspeeds, and flight paths. Youll develop a rhythm of cross-checking instruments, scanning efficiently, and anticipating the next step in your flight.

Pilot

Air Facts

JULY 2, 2025

This is counteracted by a bootful of opposite rudder, which generally coincides with its recovery, causing an even more violent swing in the other direction. I’m always amazed to hear the girlie announce on the PA, “…the arrival of Crud Airlines flight 402 from Karachi and all points East…” etc.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

It was to be a medium-range airliner that could comfortably seat over 100 passengers on two decks inside the fuselage. There, the dimensions of the two vertical stabilizers were increased, and a third stabilizer with no rudder was added to the tail to counteract yaw instability.

Tail

Plane and Pilot

MARCH 2, 2025

A former Marine and airline pilot with 30,000-plus hours, he has owned two of the 10 Robin R2160s imported to the U.S., Navy medic and then flew Harriers for the Marine Corps, he was hired by American Airlines, flying a wide range of airlinersfrom the Boeing 727 to the McDonnell MD-11. and has, in fact, owned Six Zero Zulu twice.

Rudder

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 17, 2025

This would be a twin-engine, all-metal design for a high-wing monoplane with a high aspect ratio wing braced by one large strut per wing, and a square-section fuselage with twin tailfins and rudders. For ease of loading and unloading, the design also featured a large rear door for cargo. Hurel-Dubois Miles HDM.105,

Cargo

Flying Magazine

MAY 14, 2025

Honeycomb Aeronautical Charlie Rudder Pedals Bundle The Honeycomb Aeronautical Bravo Throttle Quadrant is an all-in-one cockpit system designed to enhance your in-home flight simulation experience. It offers a highly configurable throttle setup, making it suitable for a wide variety of aircraft, from single-engine planes to complex airliners.

Rudder

AV Web

JUNE 16, 2025

His detailed chronicling of the disappearance of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 with 277 passengers aboard drew immense readership and his determination that suicide by the first officer brought down an EgyptAir Boeing 767 off Nantucket in 1999 drew official condemnation from the Egyptian government.

Rudder

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

Although dressed as a military C-47 on the outside, most likely to suit the restaurant theme where it was displayed, this DC-3 once wore United Airlines livery. The museum has photographic evidence that the aircraft was still flying passengers for Shawnee Airlines in 1971, so perhaps this reflects a comparatively modern panel refresh.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

I was inspired by Ernest Gantt’s seminal work, Fate Is the Hunter , which chronicles his adventures of flying the line when round-engined DC-2s, -3s, -4s, -6s, Boeing 307s, and Lockheed Constellations were the primary people movers during the golden age of airliners. Gantt would not have been impressed.

Flight Deck

Plane and Pilot

JULY 16, 2025

You’d be surprised at how many people in an airline hold neither a deep knowledge of obscure aircraft types nor a sense of humor. We were airline pilots with screwdrivers, just hoping to be more help than hindrance. The next day, we pulled the elevators, which were pretty straightforward, and then the rudder, which wasn’t.

Firewall

Fear of Landing

JULY 25, 2025

The owner and operator, Saurya Airlines, is a Nepalese domestic carrier founded in 2014 with a single Bombardier CRJ 200. That morning, the first officer was first to arrive in the cockpit, while Saurya Airlines personnel loaded the cargo. Saurya Airlines CRJ200ER 9N-AME as photographed by Shankar S. in 2019 (CC BY 2.0)

Ferry Flight

Flying Magazine

JULY 28, 2025

They should also look good and—for professional pilots—be versatile enough to complement a range of uniforms worn by the airline, corporate, and cargo pilots. Amberjack: The Original Best for: Airline or business aviation pilots looking for an all-day shoe that has an athletic feel.

Pilot

AV Web

JUNE 5, 2025

Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C. The Army is also exploring a contractor-owned, contractor-operated (COCO) model, where private industry would take over day-to-day training responsibilities.

Pilot

Aerotime

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On August 28, 2024, Boeing notified the NTSB that 25 US-registered planes have or had an affected SVO-730 rudder rollout guidance actuator installed. According to the NTSB, this was despite the FAA knowing that two similar incidents to the United Airlines 737 MAX 8 rudder situation in February 2024 occurred with foreign operators in 2019.

Rudder

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued an urgent safety recommendation to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following an incident at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in February 2024, when the rudder pedals jammed on a United Airlines 737 MAX 8.

Rudder

AV Web

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As a result, the board says as many as 288 aircraft, most of them flying for about 40 different international airlines, still have an improperly assembled rudder actuator that can cause the rudder to freeze stuck in cold weather. The post NTSB Rips FAA For Delayed 737 Rudder Response appeared first on AVweb.

Rudder

Flyertalk

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Issue Related to Rudders Built by Collins Aerospace The Safety Alert for Operators was issued as the result of a Boeing 737-8 flight “where the flightcrew was unable to move the rudder pedals during landing rollout.” The FAA didn’t say which date the issue took place, or which airline was operating the aircraft.

Rudder

Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), more than 40 foreign aircraft operators of the popular Boeing 737 family of aircraft could potentially operate with unsafe rudder components.

Rudder