Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Sometimes it’s emotional—the Beech Starship, what few of them are still in the wild, inevitably wow viewers of both the pilot and nonpilot persuasion. How did any given airplane sell? However, the airplane must be completed in a way that it conforms exactly to the SLSA example, of which there must be one for an ELSA to exist.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 98

Plane and Pilot

MAY 12, 2025

If asked to name one GA single-engine airplane that claims the roles of ultimate bushplane , STOL champion, military workhorse, movie star, arctic explorer, and even a little CIA intrigue thrown in for effect, the de Havilland Beaver comes immediately to mind. This is an airplane that means business. Air Force and Army.

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Plane and Pilot

APRIL 1, 2025

Airplane ready. Pilot ready? At 500 feet down the runway, the little airplane leaped into the air despite my plan to build more speed before taking off. Adrenaline coursed through my veins, and every sense was tuned to the heartbeat of the small new airplane. First flight in a new airplane. First flight!

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Gross Weight Runway Crosswind Airplanes 65

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

Airplanes like the Piper Cherokee probably dont get their due. Ask a stranger to think of a small GA airplane, and theyll probably conjure something like a Cub. Fearsome metal airplanes helped win a global conflict, yet pilots came home to variations on prewar designs of tube-and-fabric construction and modest performance.

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Approach Airplanes Stability Weight-Shift-Control 73

Plane and Pilot

APRIL 25, 2025

Its safe to say that, at one time or another, every single general aviation pilot has dreamed of owning and flying their own warbird. From fire-breathing P-51 Mustangs to T-6 Texans and more obscure types, the entire category attracts pilots of all types. For more information, email info@flyingfinance.com.

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Gross Weight Transponder Runway Airplanes 53

Flight Training Central

MAY 7, 2024

As much as it seems sometimes that airplanes fly by magic, it’s important for every pilot to understand at least the basic fundamentals of aerodynamics. Understanding these concepts will create a smoother and safer pilot. airplane's center line and the relative wind. What force makes an airplane turn?

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Gross Weight Longitudinal Axis Airfoil Lift 98

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 2, 2025

In 1954 this photo of two swept wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station. The drag chute was used on landings to help brake the airplane’s speed. The average gross weight was 115,000 pounds. Pilots are Joe Walker on the viewer’s left and Stanley Butchart on the right.

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Gross Weight Airfoil Drag Stability 60

Flying Magazine

MAY 2, 2025

Each day, the team at Aircraft For Sale picks an airplane that catches our attention because it is unique, represents a good deal, or has other interesting qualities. Pilots have long rated the A36 Bonanza the best aircraft for the typical range of cross-country missions flown by families and business people.

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Flight Training Central

MARCH 11, 2024

Calculating the airplane’s weight and balance is a mandatory task you must complete before every flight. Many of an airplane’s performance, handling, and structural characteristics are a function of weight and balance, not to mention the safety risks associated with operating an overloaded or out-of-balance airplane.

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Air Facts

MAY 7, 2025

One of the companies that had acquired surplus Beech 18s had secured a long term contract to carry auto parts from Oshawa to Detroit for General Motors and almost every night around 9 pm, one of those flights would head west full of parts and usually with only the one pilot on board. Such it was in those days.

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Weight-Shift-Control VOR Runway Distance Measuring Equipment 52

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

These tools help the pilots deal with this busy section of the flight replete with numerous checklists, changing clearances, and traffic. We have some of the same checklists, clearances, and traffic, and we have one less pilot to get them all done. Back down here is GA land, we have many of the same concerns. Image: Shutterstock.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The many analyses and videos on these topics have been done in what can best be described as laboratory conditions—carefully selected ideal conditions of pilot, airplane, and environment. None of these achieved enough altitude to have permitted a successful impossible turn, but there were pilots who tried, anyway.

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Gross Weight Runway Airplanes Pilot 98

Vintage Aviation News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Thousands of L-4s remained in the US for the duration of WWII, training pilots and serving liaison duties for Army units in training. The surviving examples did find use in the post-war era, training thousands of pilots in the former European and Pacific theaters. 1,801 of that number were L-4H variants. That is the case with 44-79780.

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Firewall Gross Weight Horizontal Stabilizer Stability 105

Flying Magazine

MAY 10, 2024

With a better understanding of the structure of the test, the material the exam covers, and some sample questions, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a commercial drone pilot. Courses like those offered by Altitude University , The Pilot Institute and ASA , for instance, include several graded practice exams and quizzes.

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

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 15, 2024

During this same half-century, Willard Custer was developing an airplane with a unique wing design that carried six passengers and crew, could be constructed economically, and take off and land much like a helicopter. For the last 100 years or so, pilots and engineers have argued about why aircraft actually fly. A hard landing ensued.

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Gross Weight Lift Pilot Tail 98

Plane and Pilot

MAY 15, 2025

Purchasing a used airplane can be risky because its sometimes difficult to determine whether the aircraft has been taken care of properly. The SD variant cant make light sport limits as it has a third seat and a 1,900-pound gross weight. And since people are different, youll have different airplanes. Even riskier.

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Gross Weight Airplanes Pilot 85

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Sometimes it’s emotional—the Beech Starship, what few of them are still in the wild, inevitably wow viewers of both the pilot and nonpilot persuasion. How did any given airplane sell? However, the airplane must be completed in a way that it conforms exactly to the SLSA example, of which there must be one for an ELSA to exist.

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Airplanes Knot Pitot Tube Gross Weight 98

Northstar VFR

JUNE 22, 2023

Most pilots see it as a barrier to them and the sky. This walk around is what a lot of pilots consider as the only facet of the preflight. While the integrity of the aircraft is extremely vital to the flight, a vast majority of pilots overlook other tasks that should be a part of a good preflight. It states, “.other

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Gross Weight Runway Weather Pilot in Command 52

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Born in 1899, James Smith McDonnell had attended college at Princeton and MIT and gained experience as an aeronautical engineer in the nascent American aviation industry with companies such as the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company, the Hamilton Metalplane Company, the Huff Daland Airplane Company, and the Glenn L.

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Gross Weight Cockpit Pilot Airplanes 98

iPad Pilot News

JUNE 19, 2024

Using the Flights tab in ForeFlight—pro tips iPad Pilot News ForeFlight’s Maps page can be a pilot’s best friend since it’s packed with visual planning tools and helpful information. The post Using the Flights tab in ForeFlight—pro tips first appeared on iPad Pilot News. Here are six that are often overlooked.

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Gross Weight Payload Pilot Turbulence 52

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

With your fresh pilot certificate, what fun steps can you take to continually grow as an aviator? The question for the new private pilot is simple: Is that a doorway to go through or one that you never open, limiting your flying career? One is with other pilots. Ride with other pilots and learn from them.

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Crosswind Aileron Runway Gross Weight 52

Pilot Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Steep turns should be one of the most fun maneuvers pilots learn. But for many pilots, flying coordinated turns while keeping altitude and speed steady is hard enough. In maintaining a properly coordinated steep turn, the pilot must use the opposite aileron to maintain bank.

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Lift Aileron Drag Pilot 52

iPad Pilot News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Navigating ForeFlight Subscriptions: Which Plan is Right for Your Needs iPad Pilot News ForeFlight is a powerful mobile app designed to simplify flight planning and in-flight navigation for pilots. Beyond those essentials, Basic Plus includes some helpful add-ons (which a lot of pilots overlook).

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Weather Approach Pilot Gross Weight 52

Photographic Logbook

MARCH 10, 2024

Twenty years ago today, I bought an airplane. I'm in Oklahoma and I just bought an airplane." Compared to the tired, 100 horsepower, 2-seat Cessna I did my training in, this airplane was a veritable beast and it had a great paintjob, too. Also, weak batteries cannot start airplanes. Bill admonished out of embarrassment.

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Airplanes Knot Avionics Master Switch Runway 52

Aerotime

MARCH 20, 2025

The wreckage of the airplane was found two days after the crash in which all nine passengers and the sole pilot lost their lives. The controller suggested to the pilot of flight 445 that he slow his aircraft down to minimize the delay in landing once overhead Nome. At about 15:15, the airplane leveled at 6,000 ft.

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Knot Air Traffic Control Gross Weight Airplanes 271

Pilot Institute

MAY 4, 2024

Short field landings are a true test of a pilot’s skill. They are also one of the most feared maneuvers during the private pilot checkride. Whether you’re new to short field landings or a pilot needing a refresher, this essential guide is for you. The POH lists landing distances for specific gross weights.

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Weight-Shift-Control Runway Density Altitude Descent 52

Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Key Takeaways Slow flight trains pilots to handle the aircraft at speeds just above stalling. That’s why it’s crucial for pilots to learn aircraft control at low speeds. Additionally, both private and commercial pilot checkrides require the demonstration of slow flight. Pilots use reference stalling speeds instead.

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Lift Rudder Drag Checkride 52

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The aircraft also has twin-boom vertical stabilizers to the rear and a monocoque cabin that can accommodate up to six passengers, plus the operating pilot. The fans are exposed by way of slidable surfaces that retract into the wing structure when commanded by the operating pilot. In terms of dimensions, the Cavorite X7 measures 11.6

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Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

Theres something about a little yellow tailwheel airplane that has always ignited my soul. After catching up, as well as meeting our photographer and photo pilot, Clinton and I got down to business. Its a horrible boat, and an awful airplane, but its a whole lot of fun, said Clinton. It can hold the extra gross weight.

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Rudder Airplanes Pilot Gross Weight 94

Flying Magazine

MAY 29, 2025

These days, the Aerostar gets high marks from owners for the same reasons pilots liked them early on. READ MORE: Top 5 Used Four-Seater Airplanes to Buy One upgrade they offered is called the Super 700 Aerostar, which takes 601P and 602P Aerostars and fits them with 350-HP Lycoming TIO-540-U2A engines mated with three-blade Hartzell props.

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Knot Airplanes Gross Weight Rudder 111

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

We fly, and teach, to prepare students to use airplanes to go places. A flight of some 50 nm meets the FAA definition of a cross-country flight for private pilot training purposes, but seldom are airports ideally located to support this minimum requirement. appeared first on Plane & Pilot Magazine. But not just yet.

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Airplanes Gross Weight Pilot Runway 95

Air Facts

MAY 21, 2025

Collins A MONTH or so ago we were sitting in a big comfortable chair thinking about airplanes. After that we thought about airplanes some more over a cup of Sanka. The airplane was enroute from Wichita to Kansas City to Newark. Just the air and the airplane. They are 400 miles per hour faster for one thing.

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Weather Airplanes Jet Gross Weight 90

Flying Magazine

MAY 12, 2025

Because the photo is black and white, I dont know for sure what color the aircraft was, but my research indicates the yellow-and-orange paint scheme was popular in 1946, so Im going to hazard a guess that is what the airplane my mother flew looked like. Both those airplanes have been on the aviation bucket list since I earned my certificate.

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Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Airplanes Gross Weight 88

Air Facts

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Six Brave Souls Air Facts Journal During the spring of 1977, I was a pilot for Skyway Airlines based at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Skyway was a small commuter airline that operated a fleet of seven airplanes, including one DC-3. I was the chief pilot at Skyways and a captain and company instructor/check airman on all our airplanes.

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Gross Weight Airplanes Flight Deck Runway 89

Flying Magazine

MAY 6, 2025

Confirm the gauges reflect full power and feel the airplane quiver in anticipation. Can an airplane feel excitement? FLYING Magazine flew the Aviat Husky thanks to one mans desire to build and sell a serious utility backcountry airplane. He wanted to expand his companys offerings by selling a backcountry airplane.

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Gross Weight Horizontal Stabilizer Airplanes Rudder 78

Vintage Aviation News

MAY 5, 2025

gross weight. ” In all, 262 Air Corps pilots were selected, none from the Corps training schools, and most had scant few hours logged in flying time (up to 4 hours per day) and even less in darkness or poor weather, and flying obsolete aircraft. 60 Air Corps pilots took the oath as postal employees. .”

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Gross Weight Air Traffic Control Weather Pilot 87

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Since then, the team has advanced the airplane into a kit, one made out of carbon fiber and incorporating more than 1400 hours of the prototype’s operation. But now they are, and as no other Experimental—or certified airplane for that matter—can do what the Gweduck can, it’s time to take a good look at the program.

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