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  • Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Intentional Slips

    Common errors in the performance of go-arounds (rejected landings) are: 1. Failure to recognize a condition that warrants a rejected landing. 2. Indecision. 3. Delay in initiating a go-around. 4. Failure to apply maximum allowable ... power in a timely manner. 5. Abrupt power application. 6. Improper pitch attitude. 7. Failure to configure the airplane appropriately. 8. Attempting to climb out of ground effect prematurely. 9. Failure to adequately compensate for torque/P factor. 10. Loss…

  • Chapter 13: Transition to Multiengine Airplanes › Low Altitude Engine Failure Scenarios › Checklist

    airplane and extracting maximum performance. If an ATC facility is available, an emergency should be declared. The memory items in the engine failure after takeoff checklist may be redundant with the airplane’s existing configuration. For example, in the third ... gear and flaps. This is not an oversight. The purpose of the memory items is to either initiate the appropriate action or to confirm that a condition exists. Action on each item may not be required in all cases…

  • Chapter 13: Transition to Multiengine Airplanes › Engine Inoperative Flight Principles › OEI Climb Performance

    Climb performance is reduced by the moderate sideslip. With wings level, VMC is significantly higher than published as there is no horizontal component of lift available to help the rudder combat asymmetrical thrust. Figure 13-15. Wings level engine ... engine. [Figure 13-16] This assumes no rudder input, the ball is displaced well toward the operative engine, and climb performance is greatly reduced by the large sideslip toward the operative engine. Due to the increased risk of loss…

  • Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Climbs and Climbing Turns › Establishing a Climb

    Establishing a Climb A straight climb is entered by gently increasing back pressure on the elevator flight control to the pitch attitude referencing the airplane’s nose to the natural horizon while simultaneously increasing engine power to the climb power ... setting. The wingtips should be referenced in maintaining the climb attitude while cross-checking the flight instruments to verify performance. In many airplanes, as power is increased, an increase in slipstream over the horizontal stabilizer causes the airplane’s pitch…

  • Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Slow Flight › Performing the Slow Flight Maneuver

    cases, practicing slow flight should be conducted at an adequate height above the ground for recovery should the airplane inadvertently stall. To begin the slow flight maneuver, the pilot should clear the area and gradually reduce thrust from cruise power ... adjust the pitch to allow the airspeed to decrease while maintaining altitude. As the speed of the airplane decreases, there is a change in the sound of the airflow. As the speed approaches the target slow flight speed, which…

  • Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Climbs and Climbing Turns › Climbing Turns

    result if the pitch attitude is changed too rapidly without allowing the airspeed to increase proportionately. After the airplane is established in level flight at a constant altitude, climb power should be retained temporarily so that the airplane accelerates ... throttle setting and the propeller control, if equipped, should be set to the cruise power setting and the airplane re-trimmed. Climbing Turns In the performance of climbing turns, the following factors should be considered: ⦁ With a constant power setting…