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Answer: Pilots keep the airplane centered on the runway using a combination of nose-wheel steering and rudder.
The stabilizers' job is to provide stability for the aircraft, to keep it flying straight. The vertical stabilizer keeps the nose of the plane from swinging from side to side, while the horizontal stabilizer prevents an up-and-down motion of the nose.
Almost all modern large aircraft are fitted with a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS), which is designed to try to prevent mid-air collisions. The system, based on the signals from aircraft transponders, alerts pilots if a potential collision with another aircraft is imminent.
Flight plans need to account for the curvature of the earth when they are created. Since the earth is three-dimensional, it would be impossible not to fly in an arc. Another reason that planes would choose to fly in a trajectory that resembles an arc is to account for the amount of traffic that will be in the air.
Most flights are intended to spend as little time as possible over water, since storms are more common over the ocean than on land. An aircraft would not be safe to fly over the Pacific Ocean due to the stormy weather and frequent lightning strikes that occur there.
Australia is extremely far from the nearest location in the United States. This means that an airplane will spend a longer amount of time flying over water. Hazardous weather conditions and larger weather systems can occur over bodies of water. These include thunderstorms, which are extremely hazardous to flights.
Not only can we see other aircraft from the cockpit, sometimes we're required to let ATC know that we can see other aircraft, and will visually avoid crashing into them, before ATC can clear us to do something - like landing.
Depending on the aviation rules a pilot is flying under they will use their eyesight to 'See & Avoid' other aircraft when flying under Visual Flight Rules, or when flying under Instrument Flight Rules they will be guided by an air traffic controller to ensure traffic separation when unable to see.
Approach and landing is the second most risky phase of flight regarding the risk of Loss of Control in Flight accidents.
During a belly landing, there is normally extensive damage to the airplane. Belly landings carry the risk that the aircraft may flip over, disintegrate, or catch fire if it lands too fast or too hard.
The plane does not spin out of control because: It takes the path of least resistance: on a dry runway, rolling friction is about two orders of magnitude less than sliding friction, so if the brakes are not applied there is a natural tendency to autocorrect.
At night pilots will turn their gaze from outside to inside and use the artificial horizon. The artificial horizon is normally a simply globe split into two hemispheres. Using this instrument, the pilot can determine whether the aircraft is in a climb, a dive, or rolling.
Answer: No, runways are not flat. They are crowned to help drain water off the sides during rain, and often one end of a runway is higher or lower than the other. When preparing takeoff performance calculations, pilots include the slope of the runway.
Aircrafts don't really have headlights per se; but, There are red and green LEDs outside of the aircraft and on the ground, which help the pilots land at night and make their aircraft visible to another aircrafts in the night sky.
Pilots use the same bathroom as the passengers, much to the delight of the younger (and sometimes older) people on board! They also eat and drink during flights - usually being served beverages and their meals in the cockpit by the cabin crew.
Answer: No, the pilots and air traffic controllers know when airplanes will pass each other. There are strict separation standards to ensure that a safe margin is maintained. While a passing airplane may look close, it is actually distant. Remember that airplanes can be separated vertically as well as laterally.
Specifically, the two pilots must both be “qualified” pilots, the FAA spokesperson said. This is because if one pilot becomes incapacitated, “the other qualified pilot takes over,” as “both are trained to do all the required tasks to safely fly the plane.”
When an airplane is departing, Air Traffic Controllers can place aircraft much closer together than they do at cruise altitude. This allows controllers to maximize their rate of departures for efficiency.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires two pilots at all times for most aircraft that exceed 12,500 pounds. Other factors, such as flight length may also demand more than one pilot. One of the biggest reasons two pilots are required for commercial flights and private jets is safety.
Not able to descend to a safe altitude in an emergency
The leading reason for aircraft avoiding the region is the high average height of the terrain. This is over 14,000 feet. Aircraft, of course, cruise much higher than this.
It is the rotation of the Earth that is causing the longer flight times, but not because it's moving towards or away from the flying aircraft. It is instead due to its influence on wind patterns – the so-called high-altitude jet streams.
Thanks to the low visibility and undeveloped infrastructure, flying over Antarctica is extremely difficult. Specifically, because of the strong magnetic fields that surround the polar regions, navigating there, no matter how well-equipped the airplane is in terms of instrumentation, can be particularly challenging.