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. The process of flight can be divided into seven crucial stages – taxi, take-off, climb, cruise, descent, approach, and landing phases.
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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Flying Magazine
JULY 22, 2025
Over the years we’ve flown a lot of aircraft with “aft-tending” centers of gravity—if you filled the seats, you were outside the aft CG limit, and the rear seats in six-place airplanes were unusable. When that big Hartzell prop flattens out, it produces a lot of drag that lets one nicely fine-tune speed and rate of descent.
Flying Magazine
MAY 5, 2025
Often individual airplane models or model years are center-of-gravity limited against filling most or all of the seats. But be honesta few takeoffs, climbs, descents, and landings do not make a checkout. For example, will the type support my intended use? Many airplanes are very weight limited with full fuel, for instance.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 12, 2025
The aircraft pivots about its center of gravity. Weve recently seen rockets and spacecraft such as SpaceXs Falcon 9 and Starship land themselves tail first using engines to slow the descent and touch down gently. The elevator raises if you pull back on the stick or yoke. This generates a downward force on the tail ( reaction ).
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This shifts the ailerons Center of Gravity (C.G.) The resulting loss of lift leads to a rapid descent by the aircraft. This makes the aileron more prone to flutter and can also induce buffeting. Aircraft manufacturers balance ailerons by adding weight forward to the hinge. With enough mass added, the C.G.
Pilot Institute
JUNE 2, 2025
Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. The Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) will show a cycle of shallow climbs and descents. Meanwhile, the Airspeed Indicator moves the opposite way: decreasing during the climbs and increasing during descents.
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