Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

High camber generally promotes more airflow deflection, thanks to something called Bernoullis Principle. This is why the typical airfoil shape has a curved top and a flat bottom, especially in slower-speed general aviation aircraft. They all rely on the same physics: push air down ( action ), air pushes you back up ( reaction ).

Torque

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

LNAV Approach An LNAV (Lateral Navigation) approach helps guide you left and right toward the runway, but it doesnt tell you how to control your descent. Instead of a Decision Height (DH), youll use something called a Minimum Descent Altitude (MDA). Theyre only meant to keep the descent stable. Thats up to you! Easy, right?

Approach

Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In recent times, composite materials have been introduced for flight controls even in small general aviation aircraft. Fly-by-wire is expensive, so you wont find it on most small general aviation aircraft. The resulting loss of lift leads to a rapid descent by the aircraft. What Materials Are Used in Ailerons?

Aileron

Northstar VFR

JUNE 8, 2025

Loss of control in flight (LOC-I) is one of the leading causes of general aviation accidents. The vertical speed indicator indicates a descent. An unusual attitude is an attitude that is unintended or unexpected, or when the aircraft maneuvers into an attitude that’s not required for normal flight.

Turbulence

Pilot Institute

APRIL 23, 2025

Firstly, adopting airline procedures can be beneficial even for general aviation pilots. Having a structured approach to your descent and landing procedures is another helpful strategy. Having a structured approach to your descent and landing procedures is another helpful strategy.

Final Approach

Ask a Flight Instructor

JANUARY 26, 2025

I typically arrive over the airfield/intended landing point 3,000 AGL then fly a 360 degree steep descent to a short final. I am a military T-6 (TEX2) instructor and occasionally fly simulated forced landing patterns at non-towered airfields. This maneuver is described in JO 7110.65 (PCG).

AGL

Flying Magazine

MAY 21, 2025

ATC was in communication with the pilot, as the airplane entered several right- and left-hand banks and rolls and entered a steep descent while in a bank angle. The aircraft then entered a series of banks and turns. ATC asked the pilot to verify his heading.

Pilot

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. Aircraft manufacturers design training and general aviation aircraft to react this way when disturbed in pitch. The Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI) will show a cycle of shallow climbs and descents.

Stability

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 27, 2025

This information is used to determine altitude, rate of climb or descent (i.e., Usually, on general aviation aircraft, only one of each is required. The pitot-static system is used to measure the static and dynamic pressure of the air during flight. vertical speed), and airspeed.

Pitot Tube

Professional Pilot

JULY 2, 2025

The TBM 900-series is the best-seller in the TBM’s history, and underscores the continual improvement applied to this product line of fast, efficient general aviation/business aviation airplanes.

Airplanes

Air

JULY 24, 2025

The green arc indicates the rate of climb or descent that the pilot must follow to comply with the RA, while the red arc shows the rates to avoid. It is common in smaller aircraft or in general aviation. TCAS II The standard in commercial aviation. It indicates that TCAS is giving an immediate evasive manoeuvre order.

Transponder

Flight Training Central

MAY 11, 2025

You can take a friend and fly for lunch at another airport, tour local landmarks or attend fly-ins to meet other pilots and get involved in the aviation community. Whether you want to fly for a living or just for fun, general aviation offers a safe, rewarding and efficient way to travel. and a normal landing.

Pilot

Flying Magazine

JULY 11, 2025

READ MORE: FlightSimCoach.com Available at Home and on Your Schedule To meet the DC-6B for the first time, I loaded onto the general aviation ramp at Boston Logan International Airport (KBOS)—my home airport in-sim. As the captain, you will fly and handle power management using the AFE as a backup.

Flight Deck

Flying Magazine

JULY 16, 2025

not often easy in a descent. For starters, I suspect not many general aviation pilots are comfy with flight controls getting a bit mushy, preferring the control authority that comes with a faster airspeed. You push the “go-fast” knob, intercept the ILS, and streak downhill. But Why So Fast? Several factors likely contribute.

Approach

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

Although Dover Approach was busy with various general aviation flights in the area, the Air Force Base itself seemed quiet. A cadre of cargo planes were parked below, my best guess is that they were C-5s because C-17s should have visible winglets.

Runway

Flying Magazine

JULY 17, 2025

Sit up straight during descents because it’s easy to get above maneuvering speed or even redline if you’re not paying attention, although speedbrakes help. We’ve done it in a rapid descent—and admit to some tension. We would be sure to be on the game while operating out of 2,500 feet or less.

Knot

Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

The question came up on a group on social media where a student was asking the community how to perform the Emergency Descent maneuver (PA.IX.A). Establish and maintain the appropriate airspeed and configuration appropriate to the scenario specified by the evaluator and as covered in POH/AFM for the emergency descent. PA.IX.A.S4

Descent

Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It slows the aircraft's descent, minimizing the risk of injury to occupants and damage to the aircraft. The Whole Aircraft Recovery Parachute System WARPS has a solid rocket motor that activates when the pilot pulls on the aircraft parachute handle release.

Descent

Flying Magazine

MAY 30, 2025

He lost 200 feet before even noticing the descent. iFly EFB is a good example of an option designed specifically for general aviation (GA) pilots, offering powerful yet user-friendly tools for both VFR and IFR operations. A quick look at winds aloft while planning the descent. His scan fell apart within seconds.

Pilot

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In order to shorten development time and save costs, the aircraft featured components of two closely related aircraft of the Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas: the wings, ailerons, and landing gear of aBeech Bonanza general aviation aircraft and the tail assemblyof a Beech T-34 Mentor military trainer.

Thrust

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

What NTSB Reports Say About Impossible Turns and Angle of Attack—Part 2: Analysis, Questions Raised, and Next Steps The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure). for several general aviation airplanes.

Gross Weight

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold. We can calculate the rate of descent required to achieve a 3° profile. Add a zero to this number, and you have your target rate of descent. Add a zero, and that gives you a 400ft target rate of descent. Good question.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 3, 2024

So back here in general aviation land, let’s take a look at where we might encounter unexpected stall conditions. If the engine does not restart, maintaining the descent and a margin above the critical angle of attack is a better bet than stalling. When it’s airplane versus the ground, the ground always wins.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

This system includes modes for: roll pitch heading vertical speed altitude hold approach These modes allow for a steady rate of descent, ascent, and consistent speed and altitude ranges. However, the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 paved the way for its return, and production resumed in 1996.

Knot

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Post-Pandemic Pancakes Perhaps second only to hyperbolic "there I was" stories and debates over which type of aircraft wing placement is superior (low, obviously), fly-in pancake breakfasts are deeply ingrained in general aviation pilot culture. This greatly simplified descent planning.

Crosswind

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 27, 2024

The current record of safe landings is strong in the airlines, but the same can’t be said for us down here in general aviation land. Hmm, that is well and good for the jet jockeys, but how does that apply to me in my little 180 hp, four-seat, piston-powered dream machine?

Stability

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. Although 9/11 marked the weaponization of commercial aircraft, the aftereffects are felt most keenly by General Aviation.

Transponder

Fullthrottle Aviation

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In this scenario, a busy controller and task saturation led to a late descent, which resulted in an error of being too high and unstablized, and the lack of knowledge and training led to an undesired aircraft state of flying past the missed approach point at an inappropriate altitude.

Aeronautical Decision-Making

Fear of Landing

MAY 30, 2025

That morning at about eleven, the pilot arrived at Melbourne Airport to prepare the aircraft for a general aviation flight. The accident pilot was a “long-time friend of the family” and had managed their aircraft over the years.

Cockpit

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Descent planning can be complicated and needs to be done more than 100 miles from the destination. Applying an Airplane to a Mission When a pilot first starts in their aviation career they operate in the general aviation environment. These are more general aviation oriented rather than large scale fractional operators.

Pilot

iPad Pilot News

MARCH 27, 2025

FlightAware Flight Tracker This app allows you to track real-time flight status and tracking map of any commercial flight worldwide, and can also track general aviation flights in the US and Canada. This app makes it a breeze to complete all the necessary forms right from your iPad.

Weather

Flight Training Central

MAY 1, 2024

You can take a friend and fly for lunch at another airport, tour local landmarks or attend fly-ins to meet other pilots and get involved in the aviation community. Whether you want to fly for a living or just for fun, general aviation offers a safe, rewarding and efficient way to travel. and a normal landing.

Pilot in Command

Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The assumption that standards established for remotely-piloted aircraft systems (RPASs) and general aviation (GA) single-pilot aircraft may be transferred to transport category airplanes in commercial air transport is not feasible, because of the high standards of Part 25 certification.

Pilot

Professional Pilot

APRIL 10, 2024

Also, the implementation of CPDLC for the general aviation sector is taking a painfully long time. Learjet 45 Director City Aviation Williamston MI F AA airspace, infrastructure, and automation goals are on schedule. It’s lack of controllers to handle the volume of traffic.

Clearance

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators and impossible turns (return to the airport following engine failure). The current emphasis in general aviation (GA) safety is on visual angle of attack (AOA) indicators.

General Aviation

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Our trusty Continentals or Lycomings do well in cold climates as long as we warm up the engine fully before takeoff, manage the cowl flaps smartly, and avoid shock cooling in idle descents. These either block off some of the cowling intake or oil cooler, or both.

Ceiling

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Our trusty Continentals or Lycomings do well in cold climates as long as we warm up the engine fully before takeoff, manage the cowl flaps smartly, and avoid shock cooling in idle descents. These either block off some of the cowling intake or oil cooler, or both.

Ceiling