Aerotime

APRIL 3, 2025

Nowadays, modern aircraft are equipped with systems that can not only fly the aircraft but can also perform fully automated take-offs and landings and can even provide protection systems in the event of unusual flight situations that threaten the safety of the airplane and its occupants. What is an autopilot?

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Weight-Shift-Control Cockpit Pilot Stability 310

Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

Key Takeaways Category is the broadest grouping based on aircraft use, like airplane, glider, or rotorcraft. Heres a quick summary: Category: The broadest classification of aircraft based on their intended use and operating environment, such as airplane, glider, or helicopter (rotorcraft). no control surfaces).

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 4, 2025

Have you ever seen an airplane with no tail and no vertical fin, but with just a sleek wing? How does it turn or climb without the usual control surfaces? Despite their lack of horizontal control surfaces, tailless aircraft are designed to be stable. Ever wondered how it stays balanced? What Is a Tailless Aircraft?

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Tail Airplanes Weight-Shift-Control Drag 52

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. The rich can dream of jets and warbirds. Lets go back to that time in postwar GA when the sands shifted quickly. But thats not where the real work is done.

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Approach Airplanes Stability Weight-Shift-Control 76

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. Have you ever wondered how pilots keep control at high speeds, during stalls, or even when systems fail? Or how do modern airplanes reduce dangerous effects like aileron flutter or adverse yaw?

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Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The low cost carrier (LCC) business model is continuing to grow in Europe and pilot job locations are shifting to where the low cost carriers are based. These carriers can be a good opportunity for low-hour pilots seeking direct-entry into a range of airplane types. Low Cost Carriers and New Entrants into the market add volatility.

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Pilot Airplanes Cargo Weight-Shift-Control 52

Professional Pilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Dassault’s advanced Digital Flight Control System enhances crew resource management. Swiss fiscal authorities allow a Maltese airplane to be imported into Switzerland on payment of the assessed duties. The most recent addition to its charter fleet – the first of 2 Falcon 6Xs – was delivered to GVA in July.

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