2012-09-28 13:05
Plane Stability - Plane Performance and Throttle Settings
What is your plane stability after you trim for a particular speed? A plane, with perfect stability, will maintain that speed wheth… Read More
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2012-09-26 13:39
A "Hunting" Tendency
Stability - static and/or dynamic. In the real world most planes have a tendency to hunt. If you let go of your planes controls it won't fly at a constant speed.
I… Read More
2012-09-25 12:48
Tail of an Airplane
The tail of an airplane is arranged to resist the diving tendency of a plane. It is not meant to hold the lighter end of an airplane up in the air while in flight… Read More
2012-09-19 12:55
Navigation - Which is Better -Slow Plane or Fast Plane
Remember, a large plane and a slow both drift with the wind in straight and level flight.
Speed does make a difference in… Read More
2012-09-18 15:09
Illustration of Figure of Eight in Flight Training - Wind
In pilot training an instructor had you practice figures of eights over a conspicuous object on the ground. Some times this was inc… Read More
2012-09-17 14:19
Downwind Landings
Straight downwind landings by mistake. Pilot fatigue leads to flight errors. Misread wind indicators or tower instructions.
(more serious)
Landing downwind, wh… Read More
2012-09-15 14:35
Wind Drift and Crabbing
Crabbing in straight and level flight for the initiated. Good example to use, with ground reference, is a N-S highway. The wind is out of the West at 20 MPH… Read More
2012-09-14 18:16
Wind Drift
The three keys of understanding "drift" from a pilots point of view are:
Air is a soup
Motion is relative
You are "in" the air
Air is a soup.
In physics there exist thr… Read More
2012-09-13 16:01
Thunderstorms - The Good - The Bad - The Evil
Thunderstorms can damage or destroy planes flying into or under them. As long as pilots use common sense in preflight weather briefings and p… Read More
2012-09-09 15:27
Taxiways - Lost and Found
First, a taxiway is a communication path on an airport connecting runways with ramps, hangers, terminals and repair facilities. Larger airports the taxiways are… Read More
2012-09-08 11:02
Exhaust Gas Temperature Gauge (EGT)
Mountain Flying was a topic for the last several posts but I forgot the importance of performance enhancing steps that are safety related to all types o… Read More
2012-09-08 11:01
Updrafts
What happens to an airplane when the weight (gravity) and lift force (force of air pushing the air molecules up) in equilibrium are disturbed by neither change of airspeed nor a… Read More
2012-09-08 11:00
Yawning
What do these planes all have in common?
Boeing 737 - Mangalore, India - 2010
Air Canada - April 16, 2012
Jet Blue - July 2012
Boeing
The pilot woke up after a nap in th… Read More
2012-09-08 11:00
Spins
Usually, when you fly, and one wing drops it soon finds a force support that pushes it back up. This upward force stops the wing from going down even more.
The other wing… Read More
2012-09-08 10:59
Speed - Load and a Stall
The lowest of the Angle of Attack means the same thing to many of us as "Speed." Slow flight, as covered before, means high Angle of Attack.
Another facto… Read More
2012-09-08 10:58
If Angle of Attack is associated with lift can we sense the angle of Attack?
Yes, No and Sometimes. The question should be " How reliable are our Senses to sense Angle of Attack?"
Speed… Read More
2012-09-08 10:57
Will a plane fly straight or turn away from it's cruising straight ahead attitude of flight , if you release the controls?
What does an airplane really want to do concerning the d… Read More
2012-09-08 10:57
High Wing versus Low Wing Trainers
I learned in a Cessna 120 tail-dragger. With experience, the Angle of Attack is controlled by the elevator. Keep in mind the Angle of Attack is the angl… Read More
2012-09-08 10:56
The Breakdown:
Something disturbs the plane in straight and level flight at cruising speed. The right wing drops slightly. The plane enters a gentle sideslip to the right. In a slip a cro… Read More
2012-09-08 10:55
Sensing Float (Buoyancy)
In landing an airplane sensations you receive from the plane to you are very important. Short fields require sensitivity to the subtle clues that affect lift. Float… Read More
2012-09-07 20:29
Garmin Pilot
As a backup, in private aircraft flying, the I-Phone screen is quite small. In turbulent conditions, during IFR approaches, controlling and reading the device is nearly impos… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hypoxia is directly related to blood saturation levels and factors that affect that saturation level.
The chemical composition of oxygen in the air, whether at sea level or in the s… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Center of gravity and Weight Balance of an Aircraft
The point at which the entire weight of an airplane would balance perfectly. The center of gravity affects the stability of the plane an… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
How about the idea that the purpose of the rudder is to steer the airplane around the corner? No way.
The rudder gives the pilot the means to combat the adverse yaw effect of the ailerons… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Real Reason
The left turning tendency occurs when the propeller pushes back a stream of air mass which spirals as it streams to the rear.
With its spiraling motion the air mass hits th… Read More
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