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• Seaplane, Skiplane, and Float/Ski Equipped Helicopter Operations Handbookp. 6-1
  LANDING AREA RECONNAISSANCE AND PLANNING

  seaplane bases have a windsock, but if one is not visible, there are many other cues to gauge the wind direction and speed prior to landing. If there are no strong tides or water currents, boats lying at anchor weathervane ... automatically point into the wind. Be aware that some boats also set a stern anchor, and thus do not move with changes in wind direction. There is usually a glassy band of calm water on the upwind shore…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 3-2
  Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Effect and Use of Flight Controls

  With the pilot’s hand: ⦁ When pulling the elevator pitch control toward the pilot, which is an aft movement of the control wheel, yoke, control stick, or side stick controller (referred to as adding back pressure), the airplane’s nose ... airplane. Think of this movement from the pilot’s feet to the pilot’s head. ⦁ When pushing elevator pitch control toward the instrument panel, (referred to as increasing forward pressure), the airplane rotates the nose forward relative to the pilot…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 7-7
  Chapter 7: Ground Reference Maneuvers › Turns Around a Point

  bank angle during turns to correct for groundspeed changes in order to maintain a constant radius turn—steeper bank angles for higher ground speeds, shallow bank angles for slower groundspeeds. ⦁ Improving competency in managing the quickly-changing bank angles. ⦁ Establishing ... adjusting the wind correction angle in order to maintain the track over the ground. ⦁ Developing the ability to compensate for drift in quickly-changing orientations. ⦁ Developing further awareness that the radius of a turn is correlated to the bank angle…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 3-10
  Chapter 3: Basic Flight Maneuvers › Trim Control

  then hold the wings level with aileron flight control pressure while rudder control pressure is trimmed out. Finally, aileron trim should be adjusted to relieve any aileron flight control pressure. A properly trimmed airplane is an indication of good piloting ... skills. Any control forces that the pilot feels should be a result of deliberate flight control pressure inputs during a planned change in airplane attitude, not a result of forces being applied by the airplane. A common trim control error…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 9-16
  Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Crosswind Approach and Landing › Crosswind Final Approach

  Pilots using this technique use precise airplane control as changes in control pressure occur near the ground, on short final, and while over the runway. To use the wing-low method, the pilot first uses rudder to align and maintain ... airplane’s heading with the runway direction. Since the airplane is now exposed to an uncorrected crosswind, the airplane will begin to drift. Note the rate and direction of drift, and oppose it using ailerons resulting in just enough bank…

• Airplane Flying Handbookp. 9-18
  Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Crosswind Approach and Landing › Crosswind After-Landing Roll

  surface area exposed to the crosswind behind that pivot point, the airplane tends to turn or weathervane into the wind. The relative wind acting on an airplane during the after-landing roll is the result of two factors ... natural wind, which acts in the direction the air mass is traveling. It has a headwind component acting along the airplane’s ground track and a crosswind component acting 90° to its track. The other factor is the wind induced…