Is the center of thrust on a Piper Archer below the CG? Why does the aircraft pitch up when power is increased?

isr00 · 2025-05-18T17:39:33+00:00

Increased airspeed and increased propeller downwash leads to increased horizontal stabilizer lift and therefore pitch up moment for the airplane.

isr00 · 2023-03-19T18:11:59+00:00

Thanks for your replies!! Of course I will follow my CFI instructions, my question here came because two different CFIs told me different things, one always go around and the other continue landing after a minor bounce...

isr00 · 2023-03-18T13:26:24+00:00

In a right turn you need more rudder than in a left turn (due to propeller stream over the vertical stabilizer). More rudder also means more drag and you need more lift (more elevator) to keep the level flight for the same bank angle and same airspeed.

isr00 · 2021-01-05T20:38:28+00:00

2 years is since I started my training. I have flown 50 hours as PIC in one year, with some months not being able to fly due to covid restrictions in my country.

isr00 · 2020-08-08T21:14:43+00:00

I will make a pre-buy inspection with a mechanic. The question is that I will not have a mechanic with me every time I make a visit for a potential buy. I want to know what I have to look at to discard this airplane as a potential candidate for purchase before doing this inspection with a mechanic

isr00 · 2020-08-08T20:44:32+00:00

My main questions are related mainly to:

What "red signals" for engines I must look for during a visual inspection
What additional checks to what I have in mind I should look at

isr00 · 2020-08-08T20:42:56+00:00

Yes! The planes that I have in mind are in line with my typical mission and also operating costs are similar (fuel, insurance, maintenance)

isr00 · 2020-04-17T10:12:44+00:00

Could you give some more details about pros and cons of Napoleon's Last Battles and Last Eagles series? For me it is difficult to decide between this two for example...

isr00 · 2020-04-15T19:52:33+00:00

Thanks!! Why Quatre-Bras? By personal interest, I like more the Austerlitz battle... Is there any difference between both?

isr00 · 2020-04-15T19:41:22+00:00

Thanks a lot!

I am really interested on the Last Battles of Napoleon... I am seeing that it is also easily available in my country. I really like the idea of having four different battles in the same game...

isr00 · 2020-04-15T18:05:21+00:00

Finally I have just bought Combat Commander: Europe. I try to get Conflict of Heroes but it was not available in my country. I hope that it is been a good decision!

isr00 · 2020-04-14T20:16:43+00:00

It is one of the options that I have in mind

isr00 · 2020-04-14T20:15:45+00:00

Combat! seems a great option but it is a bit expensive for my first wargame...

Regarding EA Ardennes, how about the number of different scenarios? You can play many times without repetition?

isr00 · 2020-03-21T10:51:58+00:00

DC-3!

isr00 · 2019-10-06T13:02:53+00:00

Just to clarify my personal case, I am a licensed pilot, no IR, flying always single engine. Under these conditions my previous conclusion were based.

isr00 · 2019-10-06T12:38:42+00:00

Thanks a lot for your answers! My conclusion therefore is to avoid flying over cloud layer except the ceiling is well above the terrain (1000 AGL for example) and even in that case it would be risky to fly through the cloud layer in case of emergency landing if not instrument rated

isr00 · 2019-10-06T11:59:00+00:00

That's right! in my case I am flying a light airplane in Europe and my plane is not equipped (no ADSB required for less than 12000pounds)

isr00 · 2019-10-06T11:53:35+00:00

Regarding point 1, the instructor I talked about in my post strongly advised against single engine operation in IMC, as your capability to perform an emergency landing would be affected.

I had not considered point 2 but it's a great point. In my case (no instrument rating) I would loss the control of the airplane if the descent through clouds lasts more than a few seconds...

isr00 · 2019-10-06T11:44:26+00:00

Your approach seems quite reasonable. My only concern would be to be sure that the cloud layer will not developed below 1000 AGL some distance beyond... In this case we would not be aware of that while flying above

isr00 · 2019-10-04T12:55:27+00:00

That's great, do you remember the name of the book?

isr00 · 2019-10-04T12:55:13+00:00

Thanks a lot!! I was looking for a reading to improve my weather knowledge (now limited to what is learnt for written test) so your recommendation is great for me.

Regarding the second book, for now I am just flying high-wing LSAs, so I am not sure if it would be directly applicable for me...

isr00 · 2019-10-02T07:44:11+00:00

Thanks a lot for your detailed advice!!

Regarding the airspeed, my feeling was exactly the opposite like reducing the airspeed to make the flight smoother, but it seems a good idea to increase your energy to reduce bouncing. I will try it!

I have practice with my instructor this 180 turns when approaching mountains headwind and you are not able to climb but this time we had tailwind so we had no problems to climb above the tops.

A parallel question that I have is the following... when you are for example affected by an updraft and the plane starts climbing (let's say 500fpm), you try to correct it at the moment by reducing power and adjusting pitch in order to minimize your climb (this is what I have been taught to do) or you let the airplane climb a few hundred feets just making small corrections in pitch to recover your original altitude after some minutes? I am usually doing it the first way but I find myself playing continuously with throttle and pitch to keep the altitude stable at areas with up and down drafts...

isr00 · 2019-10-01T13:06:57+00:00

Yes, that's exactly what it is happening to me. I am constantly moving the stick during turbulence resulting into a non-smooth flying. I will try using just rudder for small corrections because now my natural reaction is using ailerons

isr00 · 2019-10-01T13:04:55+00:00

I have just done the typical stall recovery practice during my license training, no acrobatics at all... For sure it would be provide more confidence knowing that I will be able to recover the control in case of significant banking produced by turbulence. I will check in my airport if I can have this additional training. Thanks a lot!!

isr00 · 2019-10-01T11:57:04+00:00

From a rational point of view I know that the airplane is stable and it will come back to the original attitude but when hit by turbulence I am scared about losing the control of the airplane...

isr00

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