aviation

Adverse Yaw

“adverse”- acting in the opposite direction, opposing. A bane to pilots and aircraft designers, perhaps behind only drag, weight, and …

What about those flaps?

As you can see from the illustration, the flapped wing has both a higher coefficient of lift (CL) and a …

Side slip versus forward slip

These maneuvers are aerodynamically the same: opposite rudder to the current aileron. The named direction of the slip is based …

Operating Experience (OE)

Operating Experience (“OE”) is the final stage of training for an airline pilot new to an airplane or seat, i.e., …

Traffic Pattern Radio Calls

I think the “hey you” (1), “it’s me” (2), “I’m here” (3), “I’m doing or going to do this” (4), …