(Principles of flight: straight and level, climbing and descending)
Three everyday phases of flight, and all three are just the four forces in different states of balance. Once you can resolve the forces along and across the flightpath, you can predict what power and attitude any phase needs, and why. The single most useful idea to carry through all of it is: power plus attitude equals performance.
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