Center of Gravity Cockpit Descent 
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.
iPad Pilot News
MARCH 11, 2025
There’s even an alert for weight and balance when your center of gravity is out of limits. AGL (or when AGL is unknown), the descent rate exceeds 4,000 ft. AGL and the descent rate exceeds 3,000 ft. AGL, the descent rate is between 3000 ft. Here’s a rundown of what you might hear. per minute.
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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.) The resulting loss of lift leads to a rapid descent by the aircraft. Roll or bank is the aircrafts movement about its longitudinal axis.
AV Web
APRIL 15, 2025
Fixed-Wing Foibles Consider the Airbus first officer (FO) who tried to satisfy ATCs request to increase their descent (rate), so he engaged open descent mode. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. No doors, no problem.
Vintage Aviation News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
(Wright State University) The original configuration of the Bell Model 68 was an open cockpit all-metal monoplane with fixed landing gear that was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engines with thrust deflectors located at the aircraft’s center of gravity.
Pilot Institute
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Additional Dangers of Ice Accumulation Icing also makes your aircraft heavier and can even change the position of the center of gravity. Well, while frost isn’t as dangerous as clear ice, it can still block your view through the cockpit window. With thicker accumulations and irregular shapes, drag can get up to two times worse!
Vintage Aviation News
AUGUST 22, 2024
We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway. Descent check!” That one-ton shift of weight drastically altered the aircraft’s center of gravity, unbalancing my landing trim setting. I called, setting up to land.
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