AI.IX.B.K4
KnowledgeEffects of wind on ground track and relation to a ground reference.
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- Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Introduction
Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers Introduction During initial training, pilots learn how various flight control pressure inputs affect the airplane. After achieving a sufficient level of competence, the pilot is ready to apply this skill and maintain the airplane ... only at the correct attitude and power configuration, but also along an appropriate course relative to objects on the ground. This skill is the basis for traffic patterns, survey, photographic, sight-seeing, aerial application (crop dusting), and various other flight…
- Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Straight-and-Level Flight
high level of skill results when the pilot perceives outside references, takes mental snap shots of the flight instruments, and makes effective, timely, and proportional corrections from unintentional slight turns, descents, and climbs. Straight-and-level flight is a matter ... consciously fixing the relationship of a reference point on the airplane in relation to the natural horizon. [Figure 3-6] The establishment of these reference points should be initiated on the ground as they depend on the pilot’s seating…
- Chapter 9: Techniques of Flight Instruction › Integrating Instruction Techniques › Ground Instruction
Integrating Instruction Techniques A flight instructor uses many instructional techniques during ground instruction, when using simulation, and during hands-on aircraft training. Since flight training costs are high and new aircraft are more complex than in the past, the total ... time without sacrificing the quality of the end product. This section looks at teaching techniques in greater detail. Ground Instruction Ground instruction can be highly effective if it follows an overall plan designed to prepare the learner for flight…
- Chapter 16: Navigation › Dead Reckoning › Wind Triangle or Vector Analysis
means of computations based on time, airspeed, distance, and direction. The products derived from these variables, when adjusted by wind speed and velocity, are heading and GS. The predicted heading takes the aircraft along the intended path ... country flying. The heading and GS, as calculated, is constantly monitored and corrected by pilotage as observed from checkpoints. Wind Triangle or Vector Analysis If there is no wind, the aircraft’s ground track is the same as the heading…
- Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › Ground Effect
Ground Effect Ever since the beginning of manned flight, pilots realized that just before touchdown it would suddenly feel like the aircraft did not want to go lower, and it would just want to go on and on. This ... trapped between the wing and the landing surface, as if there were an air cushion. This phenomenon is called ground effect. When an aircraft in flight comes within several feet of the surface, ground or water, a change occurs…
- Chapter 9: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Ground Reference Maneuvers › Technique
During the turn, the wind causes the helicopter to drift away from…