AV Web
JANUARY 19, 2025
These students will be taught the stick and rudder and taildragger basics but only up to their solo. Almost everybody in aviation tut-tuts about how important stick and rudder flying is, but these same people have likely never been exposed to the real thing, or it has been so long they have forgotten what it was like.
Plane and Pilot
MARCH 25, 2025
Although I havent spent much time around GB1s (except for drooling over them while they are on display and flying at airshows) I am always taken aback by how much larger the airplane appears to be in personparticularly, the tall, sweeping rudder that curves down to a sharp point with just enough ground clearance.
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Flying Magazine
JULY 18, 2025
If an engine fails, the autopilot-based OEI ESP (standing by in the background and detecting the autopilot’s rudder boost has activated) will adjust the PFD’s roll limit indicators from 45 degrees inward to 10 degrees toward the failed engine and 40 degrees on the good engine.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Currently, the SLSA version of the RV-12 in Standard Trainer trim costs $189,500, which includes a single-screen EFIS (Dynon HDX or Garmin G3X), Garmin GTR 200 comm radio and remote transponder. The rudder hardly calls attention to itself outside of having plenty of authority. A nuance, perhaps.
AV Web
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
Some of them seem funny to us now, like the fact that most of our airplanes had no radios or, God forbid, transponders and ELTs, while other facets of the 1970s are tragic. Saying that things were different back then would be a major understatement.
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. So its been upgraded with a pair of Garmin G5 EFIS displays and a GTN 650 mated to a GTX 345 Mode S transponder.
WayMan
MAY 25, 2025
They also become familiar with systems like the Flight Management System (FMS) and transponder , which helps air traffic control identify and track aircraft. Empennage: The Tail Assembly Located at the back of the aircraft, the empennage (or tail assembly ) includes the vertical stabilizer , horizontal stabilizer , rudder , and elevator.
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