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

    recommended the prescribed before-landing checks be completed to configure the airplane. The extension of gear and flaps typically occurs once cruise power has been reduced and at appropriate airspeeds to ensure limitations for extending those devices are not exceeded…

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

    slow flight in various aircraft configurations and attitudes, 2. recognize airplane cues in these flight conditions, 3. smoothly manage coordinated flight control inputs while maneuvering without a stall warning, and 4. make prompt appropriate correction should a stall warning occur…

  • PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR TAKEOFF, CLIMB, CRUISE, AND LANDING › TAKEOFF

    experienced seaplane instructor can assist with choosing an appropriate power setting and demonstrating proper technique. CLIMB AND CRUISE When comparing the performance of an airplane with wheels to the same airplane equipped with floats, the drag and weight penalty ... lower for a particular power setting. This in turn means increased fuel consumption and reduced range. Unless the airplane was originally configured as a seaplane, the performance and flight planning information for a landplane converted to floats will typically…

  • Chapter 13: Transition to Multiengine Airplanes › Performance and Limitations

    airplane should be planned in sufficient detail so that the appropriate action is taken in the event of an engine failure. The pilot should be thoroughly familiar with the airplane’s performance capabilities and limitations in order to make ... landing, even off-airport. If single-engine climb performance is adequate for continued flight, and the airplane has been promptly and correctly configured, the climb after takeoff may be continued. If single-engine climb performance is such that climb…

  • Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Introduction

    competence, the pilot is ready to apply this skill and maintain the airplane, not 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 ... uses in everyday flight activity. From every takeoff to every landing, a pilot exercises these skills to control the airplane. Therefore, a pilot needs to develop the proper coordination, timing, and attention in order to accurately and safely maneuver…

  • CHAPTER 2. REDUCING GENERAL AVIATION ACCIDENTS › 2.2 Manual Flight After Automation Failure

    steady flight speed in the landing configuration (VS0), if not specified. Note: Most small airplanes maintain a speed well in excess of 1.3 times VS0 on an instrument approach (pilot’s discretion). An airplane with a VS0 of 50 knots ... ground level (AGL) and well before the landing flare and touchdown phase. Power Setting. Power setting is appropriate for the airplane configuration and is not below the minimum power for approach as defined by the POH/AFM. 2.1.4.7 Checklists/Briefings. All briefings…