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. Wing Low (Sideslip) Method This technique involves lowering the wing into the wind and using the opposite rudder to keep the aircraft aligned with the runway.

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Crosswind Rudder Runway Longitudinal Axis 52

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.

Aileron 90

Aileron Weight-Shift-Control Rudder Longitudinal Axis 90

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.

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Lift Torque Thrust Aileron 52

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

According to the Aviation Safety Database, the aircraft touched down with a recorded vertical acceleration of 2.47g with the longitudinal axis of the aircraft not aligned with the runway track.

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Runway Airlines Airline Horizontal Stabilizer 258

Flight Training Central

MAY 7, 2024

The term 'angle of attack' is defined as the angle between the airplane's longitudinal axis and that of the air striking the airfoil. Starting, taxiing, takeoff, and landing. Aircraft power, pitch, bank, and trim. airplane's center line and the relative wind. chord line of the wing and the relative wind.

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Gross Weight Longitudinal Axis Airfoil Lift 98

Northstar VFR

OCTOBER 27, 2024

If ailerons affect the longitudinal axis of the plane, then how do they turn the plane? Ailerons control the roll of the plane by turning around its longitudinal axis. Under VFR, the MEF guarantees 100’ obstacle/terrain clearance within that quadrant.

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Longitudinal Axis Pitot Tube Checkride Pilot 67

Air

MARCH 10, 2025

Dutch roll is a coupled, oscillatory motion in an aircraft, combining both yaw (movement around the vertical axis) and roll (rotation around the longitudinal axis). What exactly is Dutch roll, and how does it manifest? It’s triggered by a disruption , like a gust of wind, impacting the aircraft’s stability.

Longitudinal Axis 52

Longitudinal Axis Stability Lift Pilot 52