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Private Pilot Question of the Day
As a trainer rolls into a level steep turn at constant airspeed, how should the pilot generally coordinate pitch and power with bank?
Increase elevator back pressure as needed to preserve vertical lift and add power as needed to offset increased drag, while coordinating the roll.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
During an unusual-attitude recovery, how should the pilot manage collision, terrain, and obstacle hazards?
Maintain aircraft control while preserving awareness of terrain, obstacles, and traffic; use ATC information and available terrain or traffic systems appropriately; choose a recovery and escape path with adequate clearance; and avoid a recovery input that creates a new collision hazard.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
What do enhanced taxiway centerline markings warn a pilot is approaching?
A runway holding-position marking.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
What is the difference between runway guard lights and a stop bar?
Runway guard lights flash yellow at the holding position. A stop bar is a row of red lights and means stop while illuminated. Neither replaces an ATC clearance.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
After reducing angle of attack and arresting the descent in a power-on-stall recovery, the pilot retracts configuration out of the AFM/POH sequence below VX or VY and does not return to the evaluator's assigned altitude, heading, and airspeed. What is the proper correction?
Follow the AFM/POH configuration sequence, accelerate to VX or VY as appropriate, and return to the altitude, heading, and airspeed specified by the evaluator.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
What should an instructor assess when a beginner can recite facts but cannot explain or apply them?
The learner has demonstrated memorization, not necessarily understanding. The instructor should probe relationships, ask for explanations, and use realistic problems that require the learner to apply knowledge.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
What is the FAA-recommended antidote for the invulnerability hazardous attitude?
It could happen to me.
Advice of the Day
Maintain a consistent flight training schedule. Long breaks in any kind of training, but especially aviation, will cause a dramatic loss of progress.
System of the Day
Cabin Heating and Cooling Systems: Cabin Heating and cooling systems provide conditioned air for comfortable operations during various weather conditions
Maneuver of the Day
Aircraft Holding Procedures: Learn instrument holding procedures, including direct, parallel, and teardrop entries, leg timing, wind correction, holding clearances, speeds, and pilot responsibilities.
Emergency of the Day
Engine Failure: The total loss of power requires immediate actions which depend upon speed (life) and altitude (life insurance)
Mishap of the Day
ERA14LA450: The NTSB determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in a takeoff with the airplane's center of gravity aft of its limit and led the airplane to exceed its critical angle of attack and experience an aerodynamic stall during the initial climb.
