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Cars & Transportation: Aircraft: “Question: How long might it take to earn a private pilot's license? And what sort of aircraft are you permitted to fly once you have one?” plus 3 more

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Cars & Transportation: Aircraft: “Question: How long might it take to earn a private pilot's license? And what sort of aircraft are you permitted to fly once you have one?” plus 3 more

Question: How long might it take to earn a private pilot's license? And what sort of aircraft are you permitted to fly once you have one?

Posted: 23 Nov 2016 10:00 AM PST

If you go all out. You can get it in a month or two.
Obviously you are permitted to fly the planes you have trained on.
The more training you have the bigger the plane you can fly.
Similar to a Truck driver License. You first learn to drive a car.
How fast you move up depends on your learning BUDGET and commitment.

Just having a License does not GUARANTEE anyone will hire you.

Is it worth it? Depends on your objectives. Some fly for fun. Some hire themselves out and take random flights to wherever it is the customer wants to go. A Charter Flight.

Many small Airports have companies that offer this service. You might get hired as a Pilot . Pay is irregular.

If you want this as a Paying regular job it is also possible. NO GUARANTEES,
The more training you have and specifically for the more larger planes the better your salary per flight.

Do you plan on moving to someplace with lots of plane traffic or just stay local?

It is an expensive Hobby. Some will take passengers for a "Fun" adventure for a fee to cover the Pilot cost for plane rental and Fuel.
The Pilot needs time in the Air to move up. They pay to use the plane. THEY CAN get help paying the costs from their passengers.

Question: What are the functions of the anti-torque rotor of a helicopter?

Posted: 23 Nov 2016 07:08 AM PST

every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
This is Newton's third law of motion. You can see it in firing guns that recoil, rockets lifting off the earth, and many many more things.
a helicopters main rotor spins.
this spinning, produces an equal and opposite force pushing back.
if there were no tail rotor, then a helicopters fuselage would just spin wildly under the main rotor because of this equal and opposite force.
in order to counteract this, helicopters have a tail rotor.

so imagine this.
there is a helicopter. it spins its main rotor in a clockwise direction (when viewed top down). the equal and opposite force wants to turn the fuselage in an counter-clockwise direction. to sop this force from spinning the fuselage, you attach a rotor on the tail of the helicopter. this rotor pushes the tail in a clockwise direction to cancel out the force from the main rotor.

Question: Surface area of an aircraft fuselage?

Posted: 23 Nov 2016 06:26 AM PST

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