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. Practicing crosswind landings in actual conditions builds your ability to respond to real-world variables such as wind shifts, turbulence, and runway surface changes.
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?
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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. Ten occupants were injured as a result of the incident and the aircraft was damaged beyond economical repair.
Pilot Institute
APRIL 5, 2024
Touching down with the aircraft’s longitudinal axis aligned with the runway. We use the rudder to align the aircraft’s longitudinal axis with the centerline. However, the obstacles generate mechanical turbulence, making the air less stable. We call this de-crabbing. Be prepared for gusts!
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