Questions tagged [landing]
Landing is the final phase of flight, when an aircraft touches down on the runway or other surface.
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Is a braking rotation immediately after touching down a known maneuver?
In this video the airliner landing on grass rotates high up after touching down, looks like more than it would do during take off. Is it a known possible way to drop the speed or it was more for the ...
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Engine out over a mountain road. Do you land upwind or up hill?
You're flying solo in a late-model, fixed-gear Cessna 172 with half-full fuel tanks. You are at 1000 feet AGL, 100 knots indicated, directly above the middle of a 2000 foot long straight section of ...
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Can flaps be used to perform rotation and flare?
TL; DR using flaps to directly control sink/climb rate near ground = simpler and faster response = easy to fly airplane?
Rotating is the pitch up during takeoff that causes the aircraft to leave the ...
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Why does the flare mode of the A321neo engage 50 feet higher than the A321ceo?
When passing 100 ft RA, the THS is frozen and the normal flight mode changes to flare mode as the aircraft descends to land. The flare mode is essentially a direct stick-to-elevator law without auto ...
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Should one use mainly the rudder or the ailerons combined with rudder to go back to center line on short short final?
My pattern work is improving but there is one thing I consistently miss: I have a very hard time staying aligned with the runway on short final, say after passing the airport fences. When the nose ...
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How long it takes for Pilots to prepare for landing?
I'm wondering how many minutes prior to Final approach do pilots decide what type of approach they will carry on with at the arrival airport like (VISUAL/CATI,II,IIIA,IIIB) ?
Like how many minutes ...
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Is there any difference between “EMERGENCY LANDING” and “FORCED LANDING”?
Emergency landings and/or forced landings are stressful situations, but talking about meanings, are they the same, please?
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How are carrier landings graded?
I'm an aspiring naval aviator (preferably a Hornet or an F-35) and a DCS player. Here's a question for any former navy aviators or LSOs. What would get you a good or bad landing grade on the carrier? ...
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What are the equations to compute takeoff and landing distance?
I am flying a Piper 28-336 Dakota. Based on this paper I was able to reproduce the take-off distances from the POH and incorporate the calculations directly in Excel. It can be seen that the effects ...
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Is it possible to define a “good landing” in terms of pitch angle and vertical speed?
Is there a specific combination of pitch angle and vertical speed at touchdown that would be usually be considered a "good landing" in a B737NG?
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Any ideas on what caused my engine failure?
On my second solo flight I came back to do a few landings, and after the first landing I applied full power for takeoff to which the engine responded by just shutting off on me. Not sure if my mixture ...
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How common are go-arounds at Penghu Airport?
A friend mentioned being a passenger during a commercial aircraft landing at Taiwan's Penghu Airport (MZG, RCQC) where they had almost touched down but had to abort and keep going due to sudden wind ...
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What operation is this aircraft performing?
While reading Wikipedia about Ust-Kut Airport, I've run into the following picture:
I'd like to know which operation is depicted here?
This doesn't seems to be a take-off, as per my very limited ...
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Barrel Roll Airliner Landing [duplicate]
Can this barrel roll in an airliner be ferformed by a skilled pilot? Is this real?
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Why is it still mandatory to land a plane without autopilot? [duplicate]
I know that there are runways in the world that operate CAT III where the pilot can land with autopilot. But why do most airports with ILS not allow automatic landing?
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When does the ATC assign runways to aircraft arriving at an airport?
I want to know how far from the airport runways are assigned. Approximately how many nautical miles away or typically how many minutes before landing would the pilot know which runway they'd be ...
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Why might a too-wide runway be a problem?
In the September 2020 issue of EAA's Sport Aviation, Budd Davisson writes
Runway width becomes a problem for some taildraggers when it gets to be less than 35-40 feet because of the lack of ...
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Landing at 30,000 ft [duplicate]
Excluding how a runway would exist at 30,000 ft, could landing a plane at that altitude be done? What would it take to do so?
Very Basic Wind rose for Mount Everest
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Is it normal to use only one hand on the yoke while landing?
In this video taken from this question, the video shows the pilot using one hand on the yoke and one hand on something else (perhaps the throttle? I'm not a pilot). Is it normal to do landings with ...
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Is it possible to Fly Aircraft on Mars?
I have been fascinated with the thought of flying all kind of aircraft on Mars. To begin, I don't know much about the fundamental things or requistes for flying. Is it possible with the the things we ...
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How challenging is it to land a plane on a tabletop runway?
Yesterday(August 7 2020), an Air India Express plane skidded of the runway(Dubai - Kozhikode, IN) and fell almost 30 feet below from the tabletop runway and broke into two pieces. It was also heavily ...
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Are there all terrain landing gears for planes?
Is there a landing gear set up that will allow a single engine plane (also, allowing for tundra tires than what is not available for current water skids) to land on rough grass and water?
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Are manned balloons allowed to land anywhere?
From time to time, quite spectacular videos turn up from hot air balloons landing in unusual or even quite tight spots, such as a soccer field in Vlijmen, a road in Nijkerk, or even a small playground ...
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Shouldn't the instructor in this scenario try to avoid a deadstick landing? [closed]
In the Netflix drama "The Crown" (season 1, episode 4) Prince Philip has flight lessons with Group Captain Townsend (below is an image of that scene, I was unable to identify the plane).
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How does the location of the undercarriage affect 'Nosing Over'?
"The location of the undercarriage and the height from the ground of the aircraft’s centre of gravity have a very important
role in the design of aircraft. In the case of a “tricycle ...
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Are crosswind landings easier with larger airplanes?
I don't spot an answer to this question, so thought to re-post it here. Larger airplanes are heavier and would ostensibly be pushed less by the wind compared to a small airplane? Do larger airplanes ...
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Ventral masts- what are they?
I have kids working on a model of a Boulton Paul Defiant, a WWII-era fighter plane. When we found images of this plane, it shows two rods sticking vertically down from the belly of the plane. Some of ...
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What would happen if a hot air ballooon was punctured in mid-air?
I am writing a script for a film where a hot air balloon is punctured and it falls to the ground. There are two teenagers in the balloon when it is in the air. What I would like to know is how fast ...
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Am I expected to stay on glide slope for landing in a light aircraft?
When I land the airplane (Cessna 172, 182, 152) I notice that I come in pretty far above glide slope (four white lights on the PAPI). I pick an aiming spot on the runway (like the second center line ...
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What altitude restrictions are there in Class C airspace?
So if I'm flying into a Class C airspace, I call approach and I establish radio contact and tell them I want to land, then I enter the airspace. If I'm still talking to approach and haven't been ...
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Will a quad fan arrangement on an aircraft help with pitching moments during VTOL flight transition?
The phenomena of ducted fan assemblies inducing pitching moments whilst in transition from vertical to horizontal flight paths is a problem I have seen mentioned by many designers and engineers of ...
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Could an airliner abort a landing after using the brakes system while landing?
Everyone knows that doing a go-around is a normal procedure, although the go-around happens usually before applying the brakes system (spoilers, ground/air brakes, and/or thrust reversers), but, could ...
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Is flap down the same as flap extended to 25degrees? [closed]
Is Flap down command is same as setting the flap angle to 25degrees. Recently I am reading the information related to Flap and got confused with different terminology. Trying to get relation between ...
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Why does spoiler extension during touchdown cause a pitch up moment?
There are reports that incorrect flight technique associated with spoilers extension during touchdown were contributing factors to pitch increase after landing, causing tail strikes in jet transport ...
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Where do I find charts like this for Europe or Global [closed]
I am playing Xplane11 and I am trying to find charts like this
But for Europe or USA and shows every ILS approach, detalied maps etc. For europe I have found one site such as http://www.uvairlines....
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How can I land a PA-44 (Seminole)?
I’m trying to get my ME endorsement now, and I find I can’t land very well. My instructor told me to forget everything I know about the Cessna, and that this aircraft should be landed with power. He ...
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Has an F-16 ever done a landing without the speedbrakes extended?
Has there ever been a landing made by an F-16 without the speedbrakes extended?
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Why can't you operate packs on HIGH during take-off, approach and landing on a 737-800?
It's in the FCOM Limitations Chapter and I think that these phases are critical phases of flight and I don't want to reduce my engine performance by purposely creating a high demand for bleed air from ...
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Is optimal landing flare related to ground effect?
Based on other questions it appears that a "flare" is always part of a healthy airplane landing.
This question asked when a flare should be started, and I found it interesting that the accepted ...
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How close to the envelope and the ideal was US1549 on ditching in the Hudson?
I assume that for "water landing" an airplane should be configured for the lowest possible stall speed, and then flown to that speed before impact to minimize the energy to dissipate on impact.
What ...
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Why does An-225 (Mriya) perform a low-pass on its landings?
Today was a big event for aviation fans where I live (Warsaw, Poland, EPWA). We have had a visit of Antonov 225 (Mriya).
Today, but also as I saw in other videos, it often (always?) performs a low-...
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Why does the DC-9's antiskid system have to be manually disarmed during landing rollout following a ground-shift-mechanism malfunction on takeoff?
An aircraft's ground-shift mechanism (usually a sensor wired to the nosegear strut that looks to see whether the strut is compressed or not) tells the aircraft whether it's on the ground or in the air....
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Vikki - formerly Sean
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How do I use the takeoff and landing distance charts in the C172 POH?
Can anyone explain how to calculate takeoff and landing distances using the chart for C172s, and please give me an example?
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Does an airplane has to take off from beginning of the runway or it can take off from displaced threshold?
I mean, if the airports declared that there is a displaced threshold of runway ; and airplanes use this length for landing but how about for takeoff?
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What does “Ground loops are costly. Fly them until they stop” mean?
In one of the earliest scenes of William A. Wellman's 1942 film Thunder Birds, a sign can be seen in a room of a USAAF base (some relax or briefing room, apparently), which says:
Ground loops are ...
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What does the flashing green-light signal (return for landing) actually mean to NORDO aircraft?
Studying for the PSTAR I see that a flashing green signal while in the circuit means "return for landing" but this is not actually defined anywhere. What does that mean?
NORDO = "is an aircraft ...
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Why isn't landing in the water a good option in an emergency? [duplicate]
Some people say that landing on water should be considered as a last resort because it is dangerous. But why exactly is it dangerous to land an airplane in the water? Wouldn't it be safer since ...
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How does a remote pilot land a fixed-wing UAV?
How does a remote pilot land a big fixed wing UAV, whose takeoff weight could be several tons and have to land at a airport with runways? I saw in the TV, these big UAV normally has on-board cameras ...
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How likely is it that there is someone knowledgeable about piloting in a flight control room?
I saw a reasonably looking video about a non-pilot trying to land a plane with the help of a flight control tower (in a simulator):
(it is in French).
I believe that ...
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Do aircraft have accelerometers?
Do modern aircraft employ accelerometers or other similar equipment to measure g-forces on the aircraft? I could imagine this being used as an inspection/service indicator, particularly after hard ...
