Title: Slow Flight | The Frugal Pilot
Headings: Slow Flight
Slow Flight
Knowledge Test

Content: Adjust pitch attitude to control airspeed. Apply trim as needed to maintain slow flight with the least back pressure on the yoke or stick. From this point of slow flight you can practice — gently — various flight maneuvers such as climbs, descents, and turns. Your instructor also will show you how to maintain slow flight with incrementally more flaps (if your plane is equipped with flaps). Practicing slow flight makes sense. You’re not only learning how controls respond at low speeds, you’re also getting to practice a simulated landing at a safe altitude. If you goof you have a 1,500-plus ft. margin for error. Knowledge Test
When performing any practice maneuvers, make clearing turns before you start. That means turning your aircraft left for a 90-degree turn, then right for 90 degrees, checking around you to see what other traffic is nearby.