Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

So when you’re in the cockpit, you’ll know exactly what to do. When the aircraft is in a high-drag configuration, a stall at a low altitude can be quite dangerous. Landing flaps add a lot of drag; removing this notch will help the aircraft accelerate quickly. Why Practice Power-off Stalls?

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Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose. The engine creates thrust by burning fuel.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Aileron Air Traffic Control Lift 52

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 27, 2024

The common cockpit design allows pilots to transition between different Airbus aircraft with minimal additional training, enhancing operational flexibility. One of the standout features is its unique wing design with a high aspect ratio, which allows for improved lift and reduced drag, ensuring smoother and more efficient flights.

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Pilot's Life Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Ground school provides the theoretical knowledge needed to understand aviation principles, which youll later apply in the cockpit. Aerodynamics and Flight Theory : Youll learn the basic principles behind flight, including the four forces: lift, thrust, drag, and weight. Its a crucial part of becoming a pilot.

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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. The problem is that the aileron can only be deflected to a point after which the drag becomes significant. Adverse yaw is created due to the drag differential between the two sides of the aircraft.

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AeroSavvy

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Airlines are upgrading older cockpits with newer displays, so this old indicator will soon become a relic. When an aircraft exceeds M MO , a shock wave forms over the wing causing increased drag, buffeting, and possible loss of control. The instrument provides pilots with a surprising amount of information.

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Jetwhine

JANUARY 17, 2024

built fighter jet—including the narrow and mildly pressurized (4 psi) cockpit. ” The 3,800-pound-thrust Ukrainian-built AI25-TL engine needs an air-assisted start provided by the onboard Sapphire APU. Many of the panel gauge identifications are written in Cyrillic, with metric scales, the panel looks much like that of a U.S.-built

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Knot Rudder Pilot Checkride 52

Flying Magazine

JUNE 2, 2025

Approaching and passing through Mach 1, however, an airplane acquires, in addition to the drag it already has, a new kind of drag, called wave drag. READ MORE: Boom Goes Supersonic, Makes Civil Aviation History Wave drag is part of what made the speed of sound a barrier in the 1950s.

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Drag Airplanes Knot Indicated Airspeed 98

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

As you reach high speeds, especially near or above the speed of sound, you can then sweep the wings back to reduce drag. They delay the formation of shock waves that cause wave drag. You can adjust the wings using a manual control in the cockpit. But when you’re doing high-speed dashes, sweeping the wings back will reduce drag.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

On June 15, 1985, during the second stop off in Beirut, a 23-year-old US Navy diver called Robert Stethem was dragged to the plane’s open door and executed with a gunshot to the head. However, that all changed when, around 20 minutes into the flight, three men stormed the aircraft cockpit shouting that they had a bomb.

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Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 6, 2024

The F-15’s vertical takeoff capabilities, achieved through its impressive thrust-to-weight ratio and advanced flight control systems, allow rapid ascents and extreme maneuverability, vital in combat situations. Reaching 65,000 feet in just 122 seconds further exemplifies the F-15’s unparalleled performance.

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Air Facts

JULY 22, 2024

The Four Forces of Flight (Lift, Thrust, Drag & Gravity) obey Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Her father had been allowed to sit in the back seat on the last day and violated the sterile cockpit rule. STEM was the main course. Like Moses and the Ten Commandments, aviation is limited by 10 laws of physics and chemistry.

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Lift Knot Airfoil Airplanes 98

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

All cockpit gauges confirmed critical systems were humming and happy. It felt like we were dragging an 18-wheeler truck! Functioning exactly as designed, those flat-plate boards sticking into the airstream were creating beaucoup drag, battling against the J-79s’ thrust. What the….? Had we been hit? Firing missiles!”

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Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Inside the aircraft were two rocket propellant tanks, twelve nitrogen spheres for fuel and cabin pressurization, the pilots pressurized cockpit, three pressure regulators, a retractable landing gear, the wing spar structure, a 6.000-pound-thrust rocket engine, and more than five hundred pounds of special flight-test instrumentation.

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Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Originally used as a trainer in World War II, the Stearman features a tandem, open cockpit with forgiving, yet challenging flight characteristics. Top that off with modern avionics, a roomy, comfortable cockpit, and its overall charm, Carbon Cubs are built for comfort and adventure. Whats not to love?

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Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Winging It Aside from the aforementioned desire for a greater aspect ratio for reduced drag, the one-piece Gweduck wing was developed for minimal weight, ease of construction and benign handling. Keeping drag corralled was emphasized as the Gweduck mission is foremost long-distance cruising. Maintenance room is generally very good.

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One Mile at a Time

JUNE 14, 2025

No thrust, no power, and/or no lift? When an experienced captain says that a plane has no thrust and is losing power, what can we really conclude from that? If one were to take that at face value, that would suggest that the plane was actually losing engine power and thrust, meaning there was some sort of issue with engines.

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Thrust Lift Air Traffic Control Pilot 113

Aerotime

DECEMBER 28, 2024

at sea level and reach high speeds even with full armament, which does not cause additional drag due to being stored in internal weapons bays. The MiG-31, only used in Russia, has its speed hobbled by the cockpit glass. But the F-22 is different: it can fly faster than Mach 1.2 without using afterburners. Mach, it flies at only 1.5

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Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Unlike the Concorde, though, the aircraft also had two small retractable canards that would deploy from the just behind the cockpit to allow for increased lift at low speeds, such as during takeoffs and landings.

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