Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

The deicing boots seem to mate so smoothly with the wings and tail that the only way to tell where that happens is that they are different colors. King noted that Epic focuses on stick-and-rudder skills to the point that the first time in the airplane the pilot uses absolutely none of the automation. Recurrent training is annual.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Flight controls mean ailerons, elevator, and rudder, of course, but on some airplanes, if the trim is mis-set, the plane might be difficult or impossible to control. On my relatively high powered Vans RV-9A , flaps are not a critical item, unless the runway is short. Flight controls and engine controls are the obvious ones.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

JULY 22, 2025

Well, it was a combination of just doing it and learning to use my peripheral vision to judge my relative location on the runway and height above the ground,” I replied. Noting the tailwheel was indeed unlocked, I moved my foot to the top of the rudder pedals to ensure the brakes were operating as normal. asked Finkbeiner.

Runway

Chess In the Air

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In thermals the V3M is even easier and more stable than the V2 (which requires more rudder to remain coordinated). A lifting aid is required to mount and remove the tail dolly which is a bit of a nuisance. While some of this may be due to continued pilot improvements, a more than 8% improvement is remarkable!

Density Altitude

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 30, 2024

In addition to repairing the left gear leg, the right gear and rudder were removed for recovering. The ramp is empty, so I ask if hed like to taxi us to the departure end of the runway. Andrew with the Taylorcraft in the 1980s, before it received the checkerboard tail. The main road between the houses is the old runway.

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 12, 2025

Aircraft Controls: Primary ControlsAilerons, Elevators, Rudder The three primary flight controls ailerons , elevators, and rudderare essential for piloting an aircraft. Elevators, found on the tail, manage its pitch, or up-and-down motion. The rudder, also on the tail, adjusts yaw, which affects left and right turns.

Aileron

Plane and Pilot

MAY 3, 2025

Depressions in the vertical stabilizer and rudder, as well as stabilator skins and ailerons, all help increase panel stiffness while allowing less under-skin structure. At least the Cherokee gave the pilot a better view of the runway from the patternno wing in the wayand lacked the high-wing Cessnas pitch change with flap deployment.

Approach

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. I turned base early, slipped the RV-9A as hard as it would go, landed halfway down the runway, and stood on the brakes.

Weather

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 25, 2025

Landing the 727 at Meigs Field would be a challenge, as the runway there was just 3,900-feet (1,200 m), but the airline had a capable crew to take N7017U on its final flight, with Captain B.C. After a low pass for the public and the press that had gathered to watch, Captain Thomas made the approach on runway 36 north.

Cockpit

Pilot Institute

APRIL 12, 2025

Helicopters use a small rotor mounted on the tail that produces sideways thrust to counter the main rotors torque reaction. The tail rotor pushes air to one side ( action ), and the tail moves the other way ( reaction ). Other Designs The tail rotor is not the only way to solve the torque reaction problem.

Torque

WayMan

MAY 25, 2025

These include: Fuselage Wings Cockpit Engine Propeller (in some aircraft) Tail Assembly (Empennage) Landing Gear Understanding how these parts interact is essential to grasping the basics of aerodynamicsand its one of the first steps in becoming a safe and informed pilot. Its also the anchor point to which the wings and tail are attached.

Lift

Air Facts

AUGUST 1, 2025

I sat in the cockpit of the old Tecnam P92-JS Echo, tail number I-GITR. The plane was one of the earliest of its model built by Tecnam, and the tail number was an homage to former Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti. Tail number I-GITR. I taxied alone to the threshold of runway 17. That school, Aeroclub A.

Runway

Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

A witness reported that they saw the airplane lift off from the runway and remain in ground effect until it crossed the departure end of the runway. As it crossed the departure end of the runway, it was in a left bank and then struck a tree, then came down in shallow water off a public beach.

Density Altitude

AV Web

JULY 1, 2025

Those are the ignition lane switches and wing spar pin warning light If that isn’t incentive to take training seriously, look to the NTSB reports where you’ll find lots of runway prangs in the hands of hamfisted pilots. Poke around the typical LSA maintenance hangar and you’ll see broken pieces. The RV-12 is no different.

Gross Weight

Air Facts

JULY 2, 2025

Even in those days, Komati had miles of dirt runway, so I held my peace, assuming we must eventually fly. By the time we hit 85, the tail was flying, the main wheels were off the ground, and the nosewheel was grinding itself into the dirt. By now we had used up a lot of runway, so I ventured my solution to the problem. “We

Cockpit

Air Facts

APRIL 16, 2025

As I climbed aboard and got strapped down, Captain Bloom started taxing to the end of the field, aligned the aircraft down the grass runway and applied full power. Captain Bloom swiftly applied full throttle, the engine roared to life with a deafening sound and vibrations as the aircraft started rolling and bouncing down the grass runway.

Rudder

Photographic Logbook

JUNE 29, 2025

The tail number caught my ear as familiar and when the mental gears finally meshed enough to process that it spelled out "Tiger", I realized that I was hearing Bruno from Fly with Bruno who was out doing what Bruno does. It was configured with three 5,000 foot long runways in a triangular arrangement. Delaware River. Delaware River.

Runway

Fear of Landing

JUNE 28, 2024

The Cabri G2 comprises a shrouded tail rotor, usually referred to as a “Fenestron” (a registered trade mark of Eurocopter) that was proven to provide excellent maneuverability in every flight condition, in every direction of flight up to 40 kt at least. The weather was clear. The helicopter continued rotating left.

Rudder

World Airline News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board Thursday issued urgent safety recommendations to The Boeing Company and the Federal Aviation Administration in response to the potential for a jammed or restricted rudder control system on some 737 airplanes. The NTSB is investigating a Feb. operators to do so until replacements are available.

Rudder

Northstar VFR

JULY 21, 2024

More right rudder!!” The airplane rudder is one of the most misunderstood of the primary flight controls. Yet the rudder is one of the most important and one of the most under-utilized. The rudder’s most important function is controlling the yaw of the aircraft, which moves the nose of the plane left and right.

Rudder

Air Facts

JULY 15, 2024

I did a checkride in 30 knot winds in the flatlands of Kansas, almost straight down the runway. I’ve landed in strong winds enough times that 30 knots can seem routine, as long as it’s reasonably aligned with the runway. Until I was porpoising down the runway like a first-time student. The lower I got, the worse it became.

Crosswind

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What you do is you sit up high for takeoff and as you add power and the tail comes up almost immediately, very quickly. At that point, you’re simply looking down the runway, and then it lifts off. The tail touched down hard, but to save the landing—and the airplane—Storo put power to it and went around for another approach.

Crosswind

One Mile at a Time

JUNE 13, 2024

For those not familiar with a Dutch roll, this is an aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of “tail-wagging” (yaw) and rocking from side-to-side (roll). The crew was able to regain control of the aircraft, and 55 minutes later, it landed safely on Oakland Airport’s runway 30.

Rudder

Photographic Logbook

MAY 19, 2025

Don walked me through engine start and within minutes of bringing the fuel-injected 180 horsepower Lycoming to life, we were taxiing from the 700 Ramp to the departure end of runway 25. Compared to the J-3, I found the rudder of the Decathlon to be significantly heavier, which reduced the crispness of some of my turns. He was right.

Rudder

Flight Training Central

JANUARY 27, 2025

1) High Roundout Sometimes when the airplane appears to temporarily stop moving downward, the roundout has been made too rapidly and the airplane is flying level, too high above the runway. This would result in the airplane stalling and dropping hard onto the runway. Porpoising can also be caused by improper airspeed control.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

We would launch from the paved runway, retract the gear, and head out to one of the nearby waterways to practice takeoffs and landings. Quickly dropping the water rudders, I reduced the throttle to idle, giddy with the release from our muddy prison. In short order, we loaded our gear and beat a hasty retreat back to Ketchikan.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

We would launch from the paved runway, retract the gear, and head out to one of the nearby waterways to practice takeoffs and landings. Quickly dropping the water rudders, I reduced the throttle to idle, giddy with the release from our muddy prison. In short order, we loaded our gear and beat a hasty retreat back to Ketchikan.

Airplanes

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Control Mechanisms Airplane Controls In airplanes, pilots manage flight using three primary controls: the ailerons, elevator, and rudder. The elevator, situated on the horizontal tail surface, adjusts pitch, raising or lowering the nose for ascent or descent. Unlike airplanes, they can hover, move sideways, and land without a runway.

Torque

Air Facts

MARCH 26, 2025

Those familiar phrases more right rudder, watch your airspeed, flare, flare, flare! The main gear struck the runway with surprising force, causing me to balloon far above the runway. Bouncing violently, I thought I would go off the runway, but I managed to come to a halt right before the last turn-off. I began to laugh.

Knot

Air Facts

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the turn there is no problem, but when rolling out on the runway centerline, the view is reduced even more. To get a little better view approaching the threshold I leaned to my left and stretched up to maybe see a little more of the runway. The view from the rear seat is mostly out the side window. And I won the bet!

Runway

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Kentland has a 4,000-foot runway, east/west, with a crosswind straight out of the north. Nobody answered on unicom, and the facilities were at the west end of the airport, so I decided on left traffic for Runway 27. I turned base early, slipped the RV-9A as hard as it would go, landed halfway down the runway, and stood on the brakes.

Weather

Air

MAY 21, 2025

Drawbacks: For takeoff, a tailwind significantly increases the required runway length and results in a shallower climb angle. Effects: It will try to push your aeroplane sideways off the runway centreline. Youll need the wind velocity (speed, Vw) and the angular difference () between your runway/track and the wind direction.

Crosswind

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

We originally planned a flight to Vermont for lunch at the Red Mill Restaurant located alongside the magnificent grass runway at Basin Harbor (B06). Softened by excessive rain, the runway was NOTAMed closed. The twin tail booms, vertical stabilizers, engines, and forward fuselage were years away from being mounted.

Torque

Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

The aircraft was powered by three General Electric CF6 turbofan engines, with one mounted under each wing and a third located above the rear fuselage in the base of the tail. On scanning the engine instruments, it quickly became apparent that the number two tail-mounted engine had failed. The plane entered a descending right-hand turn.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Conveniently for Pepsi, the aircraft has already left the factory with a white and blue scheme, so the Stinson was painted with the company’s logos on the front and rear portions of the fuselage and a bottle was painted on the rudder. On the rear fuselage the slogan “A Nickel Drink – Worth A Dime” was painted under the Pepsi-Cola logo.

Firewall

Air Facts

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It was a beefed up, militarized version of the Beechcraft Bonanza with a narrowed fuselage and conventional tail, seating two pilots in tandem cockpits with controls and indicators configured similarly to tactical aircraft of the period. Dropping like an inverted dart tail first, Morris, from his aft cockpit perch exclaimed,“Wheeeee!”

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

We chose to base our airplane at the airport, so with the amphibious floats, we have wheels that can land on a runway, and then we can retract them and land on the water. The next item on the list was a thorough walkaround to ensure the floats, water rudders, and cables were all in operational order. Ah, a Cub after all, I thought.

Rudder