Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Depending on the wind direction and airport surroundings, you may experience some turbulence. This will reduce your workload in turbulent conditions. 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.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The elevator, situated on the horizontal tail surface, adjusts pitch, raising or lowering the nose for ascent or descent. The collective adjusts the pitch angle of all rotor blades simultaneously, controlling vertical movementraising the collective increases lift for ascent, while lowering it causes descent.

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Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Thrust : The force generated by the engine that propels the aircraft forward. Pilots must counteract the additional drag with more thrust to maintain altitude. Higher altitudes are also less prone to turbulence and have fewer birds. Turbulent air will require a larger airspeed margin. Don’t go all the way back to idle.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For the flight itself, after take off at Delhi, we encountered quite a bit of turbulence and also more turbulence happened during the crossing through the Bay of Bengal. At least when we started our descent, the weather was much better, descending and landing in smooth condition. At this point, we started our descent.

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Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A significant amount of thrust generated by the engine comes from the fan rather than the core. Descent planning can be complicated and needs to be done more than 100 miles from the destination. These are the original turbine engines and aren’t as common now as they are inefficient and loud.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As this was the first time sitting quite front in the Boeing 767-400ER, I find it to be quite noisy during take off and there was quite a bit of turbulence during the flight. Many hours later, we started our descent into New York. Reverse thrusts were deployed to slow our aircraft down. We landed smoothly on runway 31L.

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Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. The resulting loss of lift leads to a rapid descent by the aircraft. They can use the engines to produce differential thrust to steer the aircraft. This is called having a wing drop.

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Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

If youre visualizing tossing and turning, such as caused by turbulence, stop. Thats why, for a passenger, phugoid motion feels like a series of slow climbs and descents instead of pitching up and down. Turbulence or gusts: Bumps from wind gusts or turbulence give an initial disturbance in pitch that induces phugoid.

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Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Power is turned into thrust by three-bladed Hamilton Standard constant speed, full-feathering propellers. Flying for merely a few hours in light to moderate turbulence made me appreciate the pilots that wrestled these machines for more than eight hours while keeping their assigned position in formation.

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AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Fixed-Wing Foibles Consider the Airbus first officer (FO) who tried to satisfy ATCs request to increase their descent (rate), so he engaged open descent mode. The captain took control and applied aft stick pressure to return the airplane to a normal descent pitch attitude to prevent an overspeed. Not scared?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

One of them informed us about the weather and possible thunderstorm at Delhi Airport and he mentioned about the smooth ride when they flew in from Delhi so we could be expecting smooth ride during cruising but possible turbulence when we approach Delhi. We flew through some layers of clouds but it was not turbulent.

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