Pilot's Life Blog
JUNE 18, 2025
This method provides better control at touchdown because the aircraft’s longitudinal axis remains aligned with the runway. Keep a close eye on your airspeed, descent rate, and alignment, adjusting controls as needed. The lowered wing counters the wind drift, while the rudder maintains directional control.
Pilot Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Roll or bank is the aircrafts movement about its longitudinal axis. Since theyre located on opposing sides of the longitudinal axis, both ailerons need to move in the opposite directions to complement each others motion. This movement turns the aircraft about the longitudinal axis, making it enter a bank.
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Pilot Institute
APRIL 12, 2025
They allow roll control about the aircrafts longitudinal axis. Both forces complement each other, and the net torque about the longitudinal axis makes the aircraft roll. It offers pitch control, meaning the aircraft pivots about the lateral axis. This is, again, Newtons Third Law in action.
Flight Training Central
MAY 7, 2024
Straight-and-level flight, turns, climbs, and descents. The term 'angle of attack' is defined as the angle between the airplane's longitudinal axis and that of the air striking the airfoil. Select the four flight fundamentals involved in maneuvering an aircraft. Starting, taxiing, takeoff, and landing.
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