Descent Thrust Turbulence 
Ask Captain Lim
JULY 13, 2025
Even if it’s sunny at departure and arrival airports, turbulence or storms along the route may necessitate adjustments. During take-off, pilots rely on calculated thrust settings and critical speeds such as V1, the decision point after which take-off must continue. Weather plays a crucial role.
Plane and Pilot
JULY 2, 2025
This is new territory for beginning pilots, who must be taught the right—and wrong—ways to manage ascent and descent. For climbing, full or recommended climb power is usually employed, and for descent or landing approach, a power setting that produces the desired descent rate is selected.
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Flying Magazine
JULY 22, 2025
We consider that reassuring when the weather becomes turbulent. Taxiing requires forays into Beta as there is so much thrust at idle that the Epic will rapidly accelerate beyond taxi speed. When that big Hartzell prop flattens out, it produces a lot of drag that lets one nicely fine-tune speed and rate of descent.
Pilot's Life Blog
JANUARY 5, 2025
This configuration provides the necessary power for both climb and cruise, while also offering valuable training for managing asymmetric thrust in the event of an engine-out situation. The pre-landing check is the first step in ensuring the aircraft is ready for a stable descent.
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
The general prognosis indicated no icing in the clouds, no turbulence and a quartering headwind from the west resulting in a mere five knots of headwind component. It was also destroying the propellers air foils causing a loss of thrust. It got turbulent, and then very turbulent. This was another reason we couldnt climb.
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.
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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