Pilot Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Throttles/Thrust Levers According to Navigraph’s 2023 survey, throttle quadrants are the number one add-on peripheral. Since there are only two thrust levers, the TCA quadrant is best used for jet or FADEC aircraft. Trying to tune the approach frequency with the mouse in turbulence is frustrating.

Rudder

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. If the yaw damper is still active when an engine fails on takeoff or landing, itll automatically compensate for the yaw caused by the engines lack of thrust. What Is Aileron Trim?

Aileron

Flying Magazine

JULY 22, 2025

We consider that reassuring when the weather becomes turbulent. Taxiing requires forays into Beta as there is so much thrust at idle that the Epic will rapidly accelerate beyond taxi speed. However, that also means, as King noted, the E1000 AX is “built like a tank.”

Rudder

Fear of Landing

MARCH 7, 2025

But the map showed only the nearest weather, and they encountered heavy rain, hail and turbulence. The loss of thrust and electrical power meant they were now gliding. Their radar weather map showed heavy rain storms, and the crew selected a route round the worst areas, marked in red on the map. The electrics and instruments failed.

Flight Deck

Pilot Institute

JUNE 2, 2025

If youre visualizing tossing and turning, such as caused by turbulence, stop. Turbulence or gusts: Bumps from wind gusts or turbulence give an initial disturbance in pitch that induces phugoid. This disabled all flight controls, leaving the crew to maneuver the aircraft with engine thrust only. Thats completely different.

Stability

Pilot's Life Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

This configuration provides the necessary power for both climb and cruise, while also offering valuable training for managing asymmetric thrust in the event of an engine-out situation. Wind shear, turbulence, or gusty winds can create challenges during the landing phase, so knowing how to adjust for these factors is critical.

Descent

Plane and Pilot

JULY 3, 2025

Thrust was increased or decreased by varying the pitch of the propeller. In order to handle the enormous P-factor, and the turbulence caused by the propeller, a T-tail and a small triangular aerovane just behind the pilot’s canopy were added to the original F-84F airframe.

Jet

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 17, 2025

Our aircraft pushed back on time and the Captain made the usual welcome speech and also told us to expect some turbulence along the way. Once take off, we encountered some light turbulence during our climb but the cabin service started during our climb and this is where I find the service to be a bit disappointing.

Airlines

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 18, 2025

This was the first flight using the aircraft’s intended powerplants—two Junkers Jumo 004 axial-flow turbojet engines, each producing 1,850 pounds of thrust. Messerschmitt Me 262 V3, PC+UC, takes off on its first flight at Leipheim, 18 July 1942.

Ceiling

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 17, 2025

We flew through some clouds but there was no turbulence. With the reverse thrust, we slowed down to taxi speed. Enjoying some good view like these photos below. At this point, we started our descent. The weather in Milan was gloomy. On approach to runway 35. We touched down smoothly.

Runway

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

The flying condition towards Barcelona was nice and there was hardly any turbulence on this flight. The rain got a bit heavy at one point but it was hardly turbulent. Spoilers were armed while the reverse thrust was deployed to slow the aircraft. Anyway, for the rest of the flight, the approach and landing was a smooth affair.

Runway

Pilot Institute

JUNE 12, 2025

On top of that, the hinge points of the swing-wing mechanism can become sources of turbulence and flow separation. Supercritical wings reduce this effect, lowering drag, thrust requirements, and takeoff and landing distances. Lower required thrust, and shorter takeoff and landing rolls. One such challenge is gap sealing.

Weight-Shift-Control

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 copilot selected the thrust reversers. The aircraft then bounced to a height of about three feet (2m).

Runway

AV Web

APRIL 15, 2025

Somewhere over Pennsylvania a Cessna 208B Caravan with two pilots and the three passengers [was] going to a business meeting in the float-equipped airplane when they encountered clouds and turbulence. The flight descendedbecause its scary to fly inside cloudsand flew along a riverbed, at times below the surrounding trees and terrain.

Pilot

Simple Flying

APRIL 30, 2025

Aircraft weight is important not just for calculating things like how much runway, thrust, and fuel an aircraft will need, but also for other things like calculating how much they disturb the air by creating vortices. Commercial aircraft are divided into weight categories by the ICAO to account for the Wake Vortex Turbulence they generate.

Turbulence

Aerotime

DECEMBER 20, 2024

While many believe that down-pull blinds are simply more susceptible to turbulence or heavy landings, making them more likely to simply drop down, there is an even more logical explanation than this. This again is a safety feature, but one which has traditionally been misinterpreted.

Cabin Crew

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 11, 2024

The “Model 27,” as it was originally called, was powered by the experimental Westinghouse J34 jet engine, which produced 3,000 pounds of thrust. The interrelated aerodynamic effects caused by flying the short-coupled XF-85 under the turbulence-inducing B-29 was just too much for even a “Golden Glove” test pilot.

Jet

Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Anti-torque pedals manage the tail rotor’s thrust, countering the main rotor’s torque to maintain directional control and stability. Does turbulence affect helicopters differently? Yes, helicopters experience turbulence differently due to their rotor system. Which takes longer to learn, helicopters or airplanes?

Torque

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

AUGUST 2, 2024

Anyway we were informed about the turbulence and for this flight, the first officer did the announcements. As you can see, it was raining at this point but nothing bad in terms of turbulence. We touched down smoothly and reverse thrusts were deployed to slow the aircraft down. I declined as I prefer the window seat.

Descent

Pilot Institute

MARCH 29, 2024

Thrust : The force generated by the engine that propels the aircraft forward. Pilots must counteract the additional drag with more thrust to maintain altitude. Higher altitudes are also less prone to turbulence and have fewer birds. Turbulent air will require a larger airspeed margin. Don’t go all the way back to idle.

Lift

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Depending on the wind direction and airport surroundings, you may experience some turbulence. This will reduce your workload in turbulent conditions. This is because only one engine produces thrust. Landing on the windward wheel. Briefing this in advance will make you more prepared for this.

Airplanes

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For the flight itself, after take off at Delhi, we encountered quite a bit of turbulence and also more turbulence happened during the crossing through the Bay of Bengal. I slept about 2 hours but I did wake up a few times due to turbulence. Reverse thrusts were deployed and our aircraft slowed down to taxi speed.

Cabin Crew

Pilot Job Central

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A significant amount of thrust generated by the engine comes from the fan rather than the core. Turbine pilots will experience more icing, more instrument conditions, instrument approaches flown closer to minimum decision altitudes and in low visibility, more turbulence, and will have to frequently avoid convective weather while flying.

Pilot

AeroSavvy

AUGUST 20, 2021

More air molecules in engine cylinders allow the engine to produce more power; more air molecules moving across the propellor blades and wings means more efficient thrust and lift. Bad data caused by turbulence, turns, and other anomalies was discarded. As altitude increases, air molecules spread out, resulting in less power and lift.

Density Altitude

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

As this was the first time sitting quite front in the Boeing 767-400ER, I find it to be quite noisy during take off and there was quite a bit of turbulence during the flight. Reverse thrusts were deployed to slow our aircraft down. There were 2 meal service on this flight, dinner and breakfast. We landed smoothly on runway 31L.

Airlines

Ask the Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

Jet engines don’t like this low-density air either, producing less thrust. We also get a detailed paper printout before each departure that factors in weight, temperature, wind, runway length, and so forth, providing us with the speeds, thrust, and flap settings that we’ll use for takeoff. beyond which operation isn’t permitted.

Weather

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Vulcan engines had a high thrust-to-weight ratio, allowing it to reach higher altitudes much faster than the other bombers in its category. Additionally, being an aircraft capable of reaching speed close to sound, the Vulcan generated more sound due to the aerodynamic effect of the shock waves and turbulent airflow. meters Length 32.13

Payload

Air Facts

JUNE 19, 2024

During the takeoff mode, the biggest one of these emergencies being loss of thrust (loss of engine power). And possible out of nowhere, we may encounter teeth-chattering clear air turbulence. This is culled by both the anticipation of the flight and by the potential unknowns that might occur.

Pilot

Pilot Institute

JANUARY 15, 2025

For example, if you encounter turbulence, the bumps you experience will increase the load factor. V1 is where the pilot must take the first action (such as reducing thrust) to stop the aircraft or risk a runway overrun. VNO is marked by the upper limit of the green arc on the airspeed indicator.

V Speed

Professional Pilot

MARCH 6, 2025

Unfortunately, they had miscalculated, and no amount of brake action and thrust reversers could keep the jet from plowing into the snow at the end of the runway. Those are solid signs of windshear and turbulence downwind of the ridge crest or mountain peak. No one was badly injured, but the aircraft was damaged substantially.

Crosswind

Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Stalling with a high-power setting takes more effort since there is thrust and a high-energy slipstream from the propeller, which prevents boundary layer separation. The turbulent air hits the horizontal stabilizer, which causes a vibration that can be felt throughout the aircraft. Buffeting is like flying in rough, choppy air.

Stability

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Power is turned into thrust by three-bladed Hamilton Standard constant speed, full-feathering propellers. Flying for merely a few hours in light to moderate turbulence made me appreciate the pilots that wrestled these machines for more than eight hours while keeping their assigned position in formation.

Airplanes

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

One of them informed us about the weather and possible thunderstorm at Delhi Airport and he mentioned about the smooth ride when they flew in from Delhi so we could be expecting smooth ride during cruising but possible turbulence when we approach Delhi. We flew through some layers of clouds but it was not turbulent.

Cabin Crew