Words for: Slow Flight & Stalls
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Actively flying the airplane by using the controls to change how it is pointed, where it is going, how high it is, or how fast it is moving.
The act of controlling an airplane's flight path through deliberate changes in pitch, bank, yaw, and power to achieve a desired attitude, direction, altitude, or airspeed.
Seen in basic flight training when practicing turns, climbs, descents, slow flight, and other controlled airplane movements.
From the French manoeuvrer, meaning 'to work by hand' (from Latin manu operari). The original sense of skillfully handling something by hand carries over directly to skillfully handling an airplane through its controls.
Safe and precise maneuvering is fundamental to pilot training, certification, and everyday flight operations, directly affecting aircraft control, energy management, and collision avoidance.
Maneuvering does not only mean a dramatic or difficult move. In FAA training, it can mean any deliberate airplane control, including a normal turn, climb, or descent.
The student practiced maneuvering the airplane through a series of shallow and medium banked turns.
During the lesson the instructor demonstrated slow-flight maneuvering to show how the airplane behaves near stall speed.