Is carb heat an electrical system?
Is carb heat an electrical system?
No. Carburetor heat uses exhaust air to heat air going into the carburetor. No electrics are involved.
What is Dutch roll?
What is Dutch roll?
Dutch roll is an aircraft stability issue involving oscillations of rolling and yawing motions. It occurs when the aircraft's nose deviates from its path, causing rolling in the opposite direction due to the vertical fin's side force. This generates a yawing moment, resulting in a cycle of yawing and rolling motions. Dutch roll can be problematic for passenger comfort and pilot control. Measures like tail fin design, yaw dampers, and control inputs are used to counteract it and maintain stability.
What is adverse yaw?
What is adverse yaw?
When rolling the aircraft the up-going wing will experience more drag than the down-going wing. This will result in a yawing moment that directly opposes the desired direction of turn. (i.e.: rolling left will cause a right yaw.)
If you are at the locator, on glide-scope, on localiser, but your altimeter is reading 500ft high what could be the cause of this?
If you are at the locator, on glide-scope, on localiser, but your altimeter is reading 500ft high what could be the cause of this?
False glide slope.
How does an IRS work?
How does an IRS work?
An IRS is an Inertial Reference System which consists of accelerometers, gyroscopes (laser) and a position computer.
The computer calculates the aircrafts position by direction and velocity sensed by the accelerometers from the initial latitude and longitude input.
An IRS enables the aircraft to fly great circle tracks and to navigate accurately across vast expanses where no ground based navigation aids are available.
What pressure does a pitot tube measure?
What pressure does a pitot tube measure?
The total pressure (static and dynamic pressure).
Why don’t you want to fly your Seneca into a thunderstorm?
Why don’t you want to fly your Seneca into a thunderstorm?
Due to the structural damage that may occur in thunderstorms, due to hail, severe turbulence and severe windshear.
Besides that, lightning strikes may cause damage to electrical systems and severe icing may occur.
Are jet streams there all year round?
Are jet streams there all year round?
Yes.
There are permanent jet streams in the...
At high altitudes, what speed do aircrafts climb on?
At high altitudes, what speed do aircrafts climb on?
Mach number
On a tapered wing, where would the stall occur first?
On a tapered wing, where would the stall occur first?
At the tip as downwash and spanwise flow effect the angle of attack at each section, but because of the tapered wing the effective angle of attack near the tips is greater than that near the center.