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This is the principle that gyroscopes demonstrate by remaining stationary in their plane of rotation while spinning.
What is rigidity in space?
The angle of attack of a given airfoil is the relationship between these two things.
What are the chord line and the relative wind?
This is the proper order of the strokes of the engine cycle.
What is intake, compression, power, and exhaust?
This anti-icing and deicing device allows preheated air to enter into the carburetor instead of cold filtered air.
What is carburetor heat?
This system provides information for the representations of the attitude indicator, heading indicator, and turn coordinator when flying an aircraft with a glass cockpit.
What is the attitude and heading reference system?
This flight instrument is a horizontally mounted gyroscope, driven by the vacuum system, and shows degrees of both pitch and bank.
What is the attitude indicator?
The 3 axes of rotation all meet together at this particular point.
What is the center of gravity?
These self contained power units provide electrical current to the spark plugs.
What are magnetos?
Using this anti-icing and deicing fix, a pilot can allow fluid to escape from laser drilled holes in the leading edges of the wings and stabilizers.
What is a weeping wing?
The fuel that we test from our aircraft before each flight should be this color.
What is blue?
In a turn, the ball of the inclinometer moves to the inside of the turn, indicating that the rate of turn is too slow for the angle of bank. You are in this type of turn.
What is a slip?
What is design maneuvering speed (Va)?
This pilot control moves a needle in the carburetor which controls how much fuel is allowed to enter into the discharge nozzle.
What is the mixture control?
Any accumulation of frost or ice can change the shape of the wing, add weight to the aircraft, and raise the speed at which this dangerous aerodynamic issue can happen.
What is a stall?
This device uses exhaust gases to spin an air compressor which delivers pressurized air to the engine at high altitudes.
This system is powered by the rotation of the engine's crankshaft and provides the suction necessary to drive two gyroscopic instruments.
What is the vacuum system?
The dihedral of the wings helps to add to this kind of aircraft stability.
What is lateral stability?
This type of fuel system is found on low wing aircraft or aircraft with a fuel injected induction system.
What is a fuel pump system?
Using pitot heat can put a big strain on this particular aircraft system.
What is the electrical system?
This screen in a glass cockpit shows the primary instruments of the 6-pack, navigational instructions, and sometimes various terrain or traffic warnings.
What is the primary flight display (PFD)?
The Turn Coordinator gives us these two pieces of information.
What are rate of turn and quality of turn?
The capability of an aircraft to respond to a pilot's input, especially with regard to its flight path and attitude is known as this.
What is controllability?
Some aircraft have these devices which can be opened and closed by the pilot as needed in order to help regulate the engine temperatures by adjusting how much hot air can be expelled from the engine compartment.
In an aircraft with a constant-speed propeller, this is the first indication that icing may be present within the induction system.
What is a drop in manifold pressure?
This system replaces many different pilot controls and simplifies everything into one or two levers by using a computer to optimize and automate all of the engine controls.
What is the full authority digital engine control (FADEC)?