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Private Pilot Question of the Day
How does a stabilator differ from a conventional elevator installation?
The entire horizontal tail surface pivots as one control surface instead of using a separate elevator hinged to a fixed stabilizer.
Commercial Pilot Question of the Day
After beginning a diversion, what must the pilot continue to monitor?
Position, terrain and airspace, weather, fuel, airport suitability, time, and aircraft status.
Instrument Rating Question of the Day
What is atmospheric convection?
Vertical heat transport by rising warmer or less-dense air and sinking cooler or denser air.
Sport Pilot Question of the Day
A properly deferred navigation display leaves fewer position references. The pilot also faces fatigue, unfamiliar airspace, and lowering visibility. Each factor seemed manageable alone. How should the departure decision be made?
Assess their interacting effects on workload, errors, remaining resources and escape options, then reduce the combined risk or delay/cancel.
Flight Instructor Question of the Day
What should the explanation phase accomplish before flight?
Prepare the learner intellectually and psychologically by explaining objectives, standards, content, exact actions, expected results, evaluation measures, and safety procedures and by resolving questions before practice begins.
Flight Instructor Instrument Question of the Day
What two properties are shared by psychological defense mechanisms?
They operate unconsciously and involve self-deception or distortion of reality. Once the behavior becomes a conscious tactic, it is no longer an unconscious adjustment mechanism.
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Question of the Day
How is a runway number normally derived from the runway centerline direction?
Round the magnetic azimuth to the nearest 10 degrees and omit the final zero, using 36 for north.
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
Trimming The Aircraft: Aircraft trim reduces sustained control force for a selected flight condition, lowering workload without replacing active use of the primary flight controls.
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.
