Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

At Leopard Aviation, we train students in the Cessna 172S Skyhawk, known for its stability and advanced Garmin G1000 avionics. With a comfortable cockpit and well-designed controls, it provides a great learning platform for students developing their skills. Trainer aircraft play a crucial role in shaping a pilots learning journey.

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Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it’s your turn in the cockpit, you’ll know what to do—whether it’s a routine landing or something urgent. If there is a crosswind at the airport, you should mention this in your brief. Discuss your nominated crosswind technique. For example, the crosswind is from left to right.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Proper angle of attack management also maintains safety during slow flight, crosswind landings, and when encountering wake turbulence. Once the aircraft is stabilized in its dive, your pitch attitude is true -45. Today’s cockpits are equipped with advanced AOA indicators that can let you know when a stall may occur.

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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. What Is Aircraft Stability? Stability is the aircrafts tendency to maintain its attitude or orientation. This means that they have to be effective enough to counter the aircrafts inherent lateral stability.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

Do you like the racoon style cockpit? The racoon style cockpit Time to experience my first Aegean Airlines flight! These GE Leap-1A engines took a while longer than the older generation engine to stabilize and once they were good, we were on our way. This Aegean's Airbus A321NEO was bound for Thessaloniki. Let's go to Greece!

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Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

No matter the number of hours in the cockpit, nor the experience, seem to stymie the primitive brain from doing its deed when called upon in unnatural circumstances. The more challenging the flight conditions–low ceilings, rain, crosswinds, high density, etc–the higher the anxiety level. Results from a crosswind landing.

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Airspeed Junkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These engines are arranged in four pods beneath the wings, a design that not only provides the necessary thrust but also helps delay stall onset, contributing to the aircraft’s stability and performance. Additionally, the main landing gear can pivot up to 20 degrees, significantly improving crosswind landing capabilities.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The previous CTs had a stabilator for pitch, where the new F2 uses a more conventional elevator and fixed horizontal stabilizer. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. Out back, theres an entirely new tail. In this case, nothing.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Combining the Gweduck’s advanced hull with its counter-rotating propellers means differential power allows crosswind water taxiing impossible in floatplanes along with higher hull-in-water taxiing speeds. “We Just recognizable in the background is a horizontal stabilizer and one-piece elevator. A not so obvious advantage is taxiing.

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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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Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

Cockpit Layout and Avionics The cockpit of the Piper Seminole is designed for ease of use and accessibility, with flight instruments arranged for quick scanning. Full flaps provide maximum lift and stability, allowing the aircraft to fly slower without stalling. This is a critical step when learning how to land a Piper Seminole.

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