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  • Chapter 6: Flight Controls › Flight Control Systems › Trim Tabs

    first, and then trim the aircraft to relieve control pressures that may exist for that flight condition. As power, pitch attitude, or configuration changes, retrimming is necessary to relieve the control pressures for the new flight condition. Figure ... opposite to the direction of movement of the elevator trim tab. Balance Tabs The control forces may be excessively high in some aircraft, and, in order to decrease them, the manufacturer may use balance tabs. They look like trim tabs…

  • Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › Boundary Layer Separation › Sweepback

    stalled. It is a characteristic of T-tail aircraft to pitch up viciously when stalled in extreme nose-high attitudes, making recovery difficult or violent. The stick pusher inhibits this type of stall. At approximately one knot above stall speed ... from developing. A G-limiter may also be incorporated into the system to prevent the pitch down generated by the stick pusher from imposing excessive loads on the aircraft. A “stick shaker,” on the other hand, provides stall warning when…

  • Chapter 5: Aerodynamics of Flight › Stalls

    counteract the increasing load caused by centrifugal force. If at any time during a turn the AOA becomes excessive, the aircraft stalls. At this point, the action of the aircraft during a stall should be examined. To balance the aircraft ... have an upward force, an unbalanced condition exists. This causes the aircraft to pitch down abruptly, rotating about its CG. During this nose-down attitude, the AOA decreases and the airspeed again increases. The smooth flow of air over…

  • High-Drag Low-Mass Airplanes

    more likely the aircraft is to stall. Should a stall occur, the pilot should decrease the airplane's pitch attitude rapidly in order to increase airspeed to allow for a recovery. Stalls that occur at low altitudes are especially dangerous ... stall occurs, the less time there is to recover. Therefore, when performing a climb at a low altitude, excessive pitch attitude should be avoided. In Chapter 6: Takeoffs and Departure Climbs, the following paragraph will be added…

  • Chapter 17: Transition to Light Sport Airplanes (LSA) › Key Points

    lose airspeed and the more likely the aircraft is to stall. Should a stall occur, decrease the aircraft’s pitch attitude rapidly in order to increase airspeed to allow for a recovery. Stalls that occur at low altitudes are especially ... stall occurs, the less time there is to recover. For this reason, when climbing at a low altitude, excessive pitch attitude is discouraged…

  • Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Stalls › Approaches to Stalls (Impending Stalls), Power-On or Power-Off

    indication, such as by a stall warning device activation. Impending stalls may be entered and performed in the same attitudes and configurations as the full stalls or other maneuvers described in this chapter. However, instead of allowing the airplane ... stall warning. Performance of the impending stall maneuver is unsatisfactory if a full stall occurs, if an excessively low pitch attitude is attained, or if the pilot fails to take timely action to avoid excessive airspeed, excessive loss of altitude…