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

These control surfaces dictate the aircraft’s roll, and this allows it to bank smoothly through turns or even recover from turbulence. Roll or bank is the aircrafts movement about its longitudinal axis. This movement turns the aircraft about the longitudinal axis, making it enter a bank. How Do Ailerons Work?

Aileron

Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Additionally, only those events where aircraft have been reported as either substantially damaged or written off, or there has been a fatality onboard a public transport flight due to inflight turbulence, have been included. The left winglet of one of the aircraft collided with the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator of the other.

Runway