What is a Deep, Accelerated and Shock Stall?
The stall is entirely dependent on the angle of attack, and can occur at ANY speed. Now for the interesting part – What is a deep, accelerated and shock stall?
How do Different Wing Shapes Stall?
Have you ever considered how the shape of your preferred aircraft’s wings will affect how it will stall? One would think that the more modern the aircraft, especially when it comes to airliners, the less likely they are to find themselves in a stall situation, and this would be true…
Understanding Centre of Gravity and Centre of Pressure
these two can be somewhat confusing, so we will look at the differences between the two, and how each is affected under various flight conditions.
What is a ‘Dutch Roll’?
On first guess it is probably the residual excess of the holiday festivities around the belt line, or more likely, an entertaining aerobatic manoeuvre. The truth is not far off, in the sense that it can be an unintentional, or intentional.
How to navigate using the VOR
The VOR requires a little bit more work, in the sense that your heading is dealt with on a different instrument, namely the Directional Indicator (DI). but is fun to learn, and will get you flying more accurately and mindfully…
Is a Vomiting Passenger a Mayday Situation?
If you’re anything like me, and the very sight of someone vomiting makes you turn green, then you are probably thinking this is a ‘MAYDAY’ situation and we need to land immediately – right?
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