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. Smaller planes may feel more affected, while larger aircraft have better stability. The lowered wing counters the wind drift, while the rudder maintains directional control.

Crosswind

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

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.

Torque

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other. The aircraft sustained damage to the leading edge of the right-hand horizontal stabilizer and was subsequently repaired. The DHC-8 safely returned to Wilson Airport, with all 39 passengers and five crew on board uninjured.

Runway

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). It’s triggered by a disruption , like a gust of wind, impacting the aircraft’s stability. This initial yaw shifts one wing ahead of the other.

Longitudinal Axis