Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

This configuration provides the necessary power for both climb and cruise, while also offering valuable training for managing asymmetric thrust in the event of an engine-out situation. When learning how to land a Piper Seminole, it is crucial to understand the role of each engine in the approach and landing phases.

Descent

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

This principle is fundamental in generating lift, thrust, and maneuverability, allowing aircraft to fly. Thrust (how it moves forward). Thrust and Propulsion Systems A wing has to move fast enough through the air to generate lift effectively. That force is called thrust. Thrust relies on Newtons Third Law as well.

Torque

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Types of Stalls: At Leopard Aviation, we cover power-on stalls, simulating situations like takeoff stalls, and power-off stalls, similar to approach or landing configurations. Crosswind Takeoff and Landing: Handling wind coming from the side is a skill every pilot must master. What is the purpose of steep turns in pilot development?

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Aileron Control In Stalls And Spins A wing stalls when the airflow approaches it at an angle greater than the Critical Angle of Attack. If the yaw damper is still active when an engine fails on takeoff or landing, itll automatically compensate for the yaw caused by the engines lack of thrust. What Is Aileron Trim?

Aileron

Pilot's Life Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

An aircraft go-around is when a pilot decides to abort a landing and climb back to a safe altitude for another approach. Whether it’s due to runway obstacles, unstable approaches, or weather changes, the aircraft go-around is a pilot’s best tool to avoid accidents and ensure a smooth, safe flight every time.

Air Traffic Control

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

As he approached the herd, with the intention of driving the cattle into the corral, the bull departed and headed toward an area covered with heavy mesquite brush. At Ocracoke, North Carolina, an RV-6 (tailwheel version of 6a) landedtechnicallywith a 90-degree crosswind. Im roped in, Sam. No mention of IPC results.

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Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

From misjudging the flare to battling crosswinds, these mistakes can challenge pilots of all experience levels. This article dives into the most prevalent landing errors, shedding light on why they occur and how they can sneak into even the most carefully executed approaches. This climbing during the roundout is known as ballooning.

Airplanes

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Briefing A pre-landing briefing highlights essential points critical to the approach and landing phase. If there is a crosswind at the airport, you should mention this in your brief. Discuss your nominated crosswind technique. Explain what aircraft input you will require to land the aircraft in the crosswind.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As we approached the gate, my phone rang again. The RNAV approach to the 7,000-foot Runway 31 that snakes around from the Runway 4 extended centerline, loops past Citi Field, and rolls out on a tight-in final approach. Now, if you’re on a 25-mile, straight-in approach to an 11,000-foot runway, there’s time to process that.

Runway

Fly with Eva

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

I remember the emotions during the last approach into Barcelona airport. Now is my last approach and final landing with a cabin full of passengers. Every session we tick off training elements, from basics like steep turns and approach to stall recovery, TCAS RA, to engine failures, fires, evacuations, crosswind landings.

Approach

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

The pilot controls the throttle to create thrust. APPROACH AND LANDING Now we’re approaching the airport and ready to land. As you approach to land, your eyes look down the centerline to the end of the runway. This is especially vital during crosswind landings. However, it’s not nearly as pronounced as on takeoff.

Rudder

Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

During the takeoff mode, the biggest one of these emergencies being loss of thrust (loss of engine power). The more challenging the flight conditions–low ceilings, rain, crosswinds, high density, etc–the higher the anxiety level. A calm landing differs from a headwind landing versus a crosswind landing.

Pilot

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

By Karsten Shein Comm-Inst Climate Scientist QYK (Gstaad, Switzerland) is located in a mountainous region, which can create complex wind patterns and require precise maneuvering during approach and landing. And, given the wind, the only viable approach path took them just above a ridge surrounded closely by jagged peaks.

Crosswind

Plane and Pilot

JULY 2, 2024

Can you fly a zero-thrust, single-engine approach to minimums today? I’ll fly in crosswinds up to 10 mph, but no more, because I know the aged mechanical brakes aren’t able to prevent weathervaning above that figure. That optimistic outlook doesn’t apply to pilots with rusty skills. Probably not without some practice.

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Once youre used to those key differences, flying and landing a Stearman (without much crosswind, wink wink) is just as enjoyable, if not more, than a Cub. A big four-cylinder Lycoming swings a fat-blade Hartzell composite prop, making all sorts of thrust at near-zero airspeedthink of a mild, civilian version of a carrier launch.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

But it was apparent the smallest Grumman flying boat was too small and full of quirks—the cabin door won’t open if the flaps are down, for example—to justify something approaching a direct copy. The Prototype Ben and Ross’s vision in 1990 was a fiberglass Widgeon. A not so obvious advantage is taxiing.

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