Common examples of aircraft include airplanes, helicopters, airships (including blimps), gliders, paramotors, and hot air balloons. The human activity that surrounds aircraft is called aviation.
Term Definition
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Roll Motion on an aircraft along its nose-to-tail axis.
Rudder A vertical control surface in the tail of an airplane, which controls the side-to-side movement (YAW) of an aircraft.
Runway A rectangular area of the ground set aside for aircraft to land and take-off.
Do pilots drive planes?
Technically a pilot does not drive a plane, they are either taxiing it or they are flying it. Informally however, the term 'driving' often gets used instead, presumably because it conveys the idea that flying a high performance jet is much like driving a race car, chaotic and wild rather than steady like with a 747.
What do you call driving a plane?
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls.
Can a pilot be called a driver?
tepatria said: A driver can pilot a car, but we usually reserve the term pilot for people who fly airplanes and those who steer boats. True, though strangely co-pilot (or copilot) is a term used in rally driving. Possibly because the copilot more specifically pilots rather than drives.
Do pilots only fly planes?
Generally pilots can fly only one kind of aircraft. There is no limit on how many planes he wants to learn to fly. Now for the long answer. A pilot, in really, can fly mininum of 2 planes.
What is the hardest part of flying a plane?
Takeoff and landing are widely considered the most dangerous parts of a flight.
Is it hard to fly a small plane?
As others have already stated, flying a plane is pretty easy. Put a small Cessnae 172 at one end of the runway, giv it full throttle and some slight backpressure on the stick when you are at speed and the thing will pretty much hop into the air on its own. Landing is more difficult, but you'll practice that a lot.