Aerotime
APRIL 3, 2025
As the French mechanic slid himself along the wing of the aircraft, shifting its center of gravity, the aircraft became unbalanced. Hugh Llewelyn / Wikimedia Commons Even during the 1950s, commercial aircraft would employ five crew members in the cockpit comprising two pilots, a flight engineer, a radio operator, and a navigator.
Flying Magazine
JULY 9, 2025
So it makes sense to fly from the left cockpit seat. As far as solo from the aft seat, that is usually dictated by the aircraft’s center of gravity. The sight picture is different, and there is that awkward have-to-reach-across-to-get-to-the-ignition/primer/master thing.
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Pilot Institute
JUNE 4, 2025
The Weather Vane It mostly comes from the vertical stabilizer (fin) and the sides of the fuselage behind the center of gravity. The reflexed shape of the airfoil usually causes a positive (nose-up) pitching moment coefficient at its aerodynamic center. This also means resisting unwanted side-to-side nose movements.
iPad Pilot News
MARCH 11, 2025
There’s even an alert for weight and balance when your center of gravity is out of limits. These alerts include runway proximity, traffic, cabin altitude, destination weather, terrain, airspace and TFRs, carbon monoxide and more. Many pilots may not realize that ForeFlight also provides audio alerts with these notifications.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The pilot is able to control the aircrafts roll by turning the control yoke or sidestick in the cockpit. This shifts the ailerons Center of Gravity (C.G.) All flight controls are actuated electronically, and theres no physical link between the control sidesticks in the cockpit and the flight surfaces.
Captain Laura
JUNE 2, 2025
As an example, we need to be clear and concise in the cockpit with each other as well as those we are in direct communication with. What are our weights, center of gravity, and fuel load we need to take. Socialization: We do like to hang out with each other, we understand how one another thinks and operates.
AV Web
APRIL 15, 2025
Riverbeds draw fun-loving pilots like flies to Christmas pudding, as on December 25, 2021 near Rainbow, Texas, when a Boeingagain, not one of thoseinstead, this was a WWII-vintage Stearman PT17 open-cockpit, biplane built by the old Boeing that understood structural integrity. No doors, no problem. Lose a wing, theres a spare.
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