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How do you fly straight and level?
Straight and Level Flight Procedure:
- Perform clearing turns.
- Pick a reference point.
- Maintain pitch attitude.
- Glance at the instruments to see if the airplane is flying level.
- Adjust trim.
- Cross check instruments.
- Maintain straight flight.
- Glance at the heading indicator to verify straight flight.
Can you land a plane without landing gear?
A belly landing or gear-up landing occurs when an aircraft lands without its landing gear fully extended and uses its underside, or belly, as its primary landing device. Belly landings are one of the most common types of aircraft accidents nevertheless, and are normally not fatal if executed carefully.
What do elevators on an aircraft control?
The elevator is used to control the position of the nose of the aircraft and the angle of attack of the wing. Changing the inclination of the wing to the local flight path changes the amount of lift which the wing generates. This, in turn, causes the aircraft to climb or dive.
Why do you pitch the aircraft?
You pitch the aircraft to maintain airspeed and use power to maintain altitude. Why is this? The answer lies in induced drag, which dramatically increases as the aircraft’s angle-of-attack (AOA) increases to maintain sufficient lift at low airspeeds.
How do you increase AOA to maintain level flight?
To maintain level flight, the pilot can increase the AOA an amount that generates a lift force again equal to the weight of the aircraft. While the aircraft will be flying more slowly, it will still maintain level flight. The AOA is adjusted to maintain lift equal weight.
Why is it difficult to maintain altitude during slow flight?
During slow flight, control responsiveness degrades and maintaining altitude becomes difficult because of less airflow over control surfaces. As airspeed is further reduced, larger and larger control movements are required to create the same response from the airplane.
How do perturbations affect an aircraft’s pitch angle?
(Like a sudden, substantial, sustained increase or decrease in the speed of the wind, e.g. due to wind shear.) I have seen that when faced by this kind of a perturbation, the aircraft tries to slow down/keep the airspeed unchanged by increasing the pitch angle. My question is how it happens Peter Kampf wrote: