General Aviation Gross Weight Rudder 
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. On a 5-mile final, I lowered the landing gear and brought the master propeller lever up to high rpm.
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). One checkout was at normal weight and c.g.
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Airspeed Junkie
AUGUST 2, 2024
With a maximum takeoff weight of 2,400 pounds and a maximum gross weight that ensures stability, this aircraft is robust enough to handle a variety of flying conditions. However, the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 paved the way for its return, and production resumed in 1996.
Pilot Institute
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
It’s as close to “evasive action” as you can get while flying a general aviation aircraft. Proper rudder use is required to counter adverse yaw to maintain coordinated flight. The Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH) for your airplane will list V A , typically for maximum gross weight.
Plane and Pilot
MAY 28, 2025
It can hold the extra gross weight. It’s 2,300 pounds, but when you add floats, it will get [bogged] down, so you need an airplane that can [carry] the weight. Power-to-weight ratio is also impressive for a floatplane. After all, this Cub had a gear system and water rudders, and I didnt want to miss a thing.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
But I have maintained 5000 feet at 6000 pounds gross weight,” notes Ross. An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). Precisely what the single-engine ceiling is, the team can’t say. “We lb/sq ft Power loading 10.32
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 16, 2024
General aviation is driven by myriad forces. With the F2, the rudder and vertical stabilizer are changed, with the rudder becoming a much smaller surface than before. You can sit there with full back stick, full aileron one way and full rudder the other, and its perfectly controllable. Max Gross Weight: 1,320 lbs.
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