Have you ever noticed how some airplanes have one wheel in the front and two in the back? And others have two big wheels at the front and one all the way back on the tail. The first is called a tricycle landing gear. The second is called a tailwheel, Read more…
What is cruise? Cruise is what we call it when you’ve climbed to the right altitude and are heading towards where you want to go, in more or less a straight line. If your airplane has an autopilot, this is when you would turn it on. Prepping for what’s next Read more…
Do normal pilots wear parachutes? Short answer, no! Long answer, as follows. As much as you might think a parachute would come in handy in an emergency, it’s kind of a one in a million chance of ever needing one. We could compare it to wearing a helmet in a Read more…
The joystick or control yoke, is one of the most important components of an airplane. It is essentially how you steer and control the movement of an aircraft. I’ll explain how it works, but first you need to understand the three directions of movement of an airplane. Pitch. This is Read more…
The first place many people start on their journey to becoming a pilot, is to take a series of classroom lessons called Ground School. Ground School is 40 hours of theoretical knowledge you will need to study in order to understand how to fly. Although the Ground School is very Read more…