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  2. Aircraft flight control system - Wikipedia

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    Cockpit controls and instrument panel of a Cessna 182D Skylane. Generally, the primary cockpit flight controls are arranged as follows: [2] A control yoke (also known as a control column), centre stick or side-stick (the latter two also colloquially known as a control or joystick), governs the aircraft's roll and pitch by moving the ailerons (or activating wing warping on some very early ...

  3. Flight instruments - Wikipedia

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    The cockpit of a Slingsby T-67 Firefly two-seat light airplane.The flight instruments are visible on the left of the instrument panel. Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, heading and much more other crucial information in flight.

  4. Cessna 172 - Wikipedia

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    The Cessna 172 Skyhawk is an American four-seat, single-engine, high wing, fixed-wing aircraft made by the Cessna Aircraft Company. [ 2 ] First flown in 1955, [ 2 ] more 172s have been built than any other aircraft. [ 3 ] It was developed from the 1948 Cessna 170 but with tricycle landing gear rather than conventional landing gear.

  5. Flight control modes - Wikipedia

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    A flight control mode or flight control law is a computer software algorithm that transforms the movement of the yoke or joystick, made by an aircraft pilot, into movements of the aircraft control surfaces. The control surface movements depend on which of several modes the flight computer is in. In aircraft in which the flight control system is ...

  6. Flight management system - Wikipedia

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    FMS (Flight Management System) Honeywell on Boeing 767–300 A flight management system (FMS) is a fundamental component of a modern airliner's avionics.An FMS is a specialized computer system that automates a wide variety of in-flight tasks, reducing the workload on the flight crew to the point that modern civilian aircraft no longer carry flight engineers or navigators.

  7. Annunciator panel - Wikipedia

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    Annunciator panel. An annunciator panel, also known in some aircraft as the Centralized Warning Panel (CWP) or Caution Advisory Panel (CAP), is a group of lights used as a central indicator of status of equipment or systems in an aircraft, industrial process, building or other installation. Usually, the annunciator panel includes a main warning ...

  8. Spin (aerodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Spin (aerodynamics) Spin — an aggravated stall and autorotation. In flight dynamics a spin is a special category of stall resulting in autorotation (uncommanded roll) about the aircraft's longitudinal axis and a shallow, rotating, downward path approximately centred on a vertical axis. [1] Spins can be entered intentionally or unintentionally ...

  9. Cessna T-41 Mescalero - Wikipedia

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    Introduction date. 1964. Developed from. Cessna 172 Cessna 175 Skylark. The Cessna T-41 Mescalero is a military version of the popular Cessna 172, operated by the United States Air Force and Army, as well as the armed forces of various other countries as a pilot-training aircraft. [ 1 ][ 2 ]