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Learn To Fly

In an airplane, your left hand is typically flying the airplane and your right hand is dealing with the throttle. Your feet handle steering and braking on the ground and the rudder in the air.
The first lesson is make the plane out for takeoff. How to take off is to steer with your feet, casually threw the control yoke to the right and panic as the plane continued straight ahead forward. These old habits are hard on the lose. pushes the foot down hard and the plane screeched to a halt. Oh, have to mention that unlike a car, a plane has 2 sets of brakes. There is a separate brake on each pedal that are operated by pushing at the top of the pedal with your foot (foot brakes). The left brake controls the left wheel and the right brake controls the right wheel. Being able to lock one wheel allows an airplane to pirouette around a single wheel.

The easiest part of flying is flying. A plane is designed to fly. Hit the throttle and keep the plane in the center of the runway and it will basically fly itself off.

The most difficult thing to learn is the landing. You are trying to do exactly opposite of what the plane was designed to do. Create a good landing seems a heavy burden for the two positions which low and high. The logical thing to do if coming in too high for a landing is to push the control yoke forward. Logical...no? What happened? Realize that the control yoke is for speed control and the throttle is for altitude. When a pilot pushes forward on the control yoke, the speed increases, the air going over the wings speeds up, increasing lift and they have to burn off that excess speed and lift to touch down. The trick to a good landing is to have your speed set well before landing. Then, use the throttle to increase or decrease the rank of descent.

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