Knot Rudder Threshold 
Flying Magazine
JULY 3, 2025
Rudder trim fixes the yaw issue, but surprisingly we do not have a single caution or warning light. We had a 40-knot headwind, but using a conservative 10:1 glide ratio at FL 300, I knew we could make Page Airfield. The yaw from the asymmetrical thrust was now gone, and the rudder needed to be retrimmed.
AV Web
JULY 1, 2025
The max stall speed is 45 knots and the max full-power cruising speed is 120 KCAS. That means using the right amount of coordinated differential braking because there won’t be much rudder authority at slow speeds, though the big rudder on the RV-12 can work to your favor in the breeze. GPH on 92 knots.
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Air Facts
AUGUST 1, 2025
I taxied alone to the threshold of runway 17. At 55 knots, I eased back on the stick. A crosswind gust nudged me left; I corrected with right rudder. I had memorized the Thiene traffic pattern: which altitudes to hit at each landmark, when to make the calls, when to enter slow flight, and where to drop full flaps on final.
AV Web
JANUARY 22, 2025
The airplane came to rest about 1600 feet from the Runway 31 threshold and about 250 feet right of the extended centerline. Winds were from 290 degrees at 15 knots, gusting to 21 knots. We cant emphasize enough the need for rudder coordination. The private pilot was fatally injured.
Plane and Pilot
JULY 1, 2025
The pilot applied right rudder in an attempt to correct this, resulting in a ground loop. After arriving at the destination airstrip the student entered left downwind for Runway 13, resulting in a right quartering tailwind of about 5 knots. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing.
Fear of Landing
JULY 25, 2025
V 1 (take-off decision speed): 114 knots V R (rotation speed): 118 knots V 2 (take-off safety speed): 126 knots The captain arrived at the cockpit. They entered runway 02 and performed a backtrack to the threshold in order to use the full length of the runway. The stall speed of the CRJ 200 was 111 knots.
Vintage Aviation News
OCTOBER 18, 2024
. “Coming back around, I’m usually at about 60 knots. And then when you get down near the threshold, you just hold it off and gently let the wheels down. You have to use a lot of rudder—I mean you have to be rabid as far as using the rudder to control the airplane, and it wheel lands very nicely.”
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