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    Primary cockpit controls include the control yoke or stick to control roll and pitch, rudder pedals to control yaw, and throttle controls to adjust engine power. The control yoke or stick design can vary between aircraft, controlling different axes of movement. Secondary controls allow for finer control and include trim wheels to relieve constant pressure on primary controls as well as flaps, slats, and spoilers to alter wing shape for takeoff and landing.

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    Cockpit Controls

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    Primary cockpit controls include the control yoke or stick to control roll and pitch, rudder pedals to control yaw, and throttle controls to adjust engine power. The control yoke or stick design can vary between aircraft, controlling different axes of movement. Secondary controls allow for finer control and include trim wheels to relieve constant pressure on primary controls as well as flaps, slats, and spoilers to alter wing shape for takeoff and landing.

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    Primary cockpit controls include the control yoke or stick to control roll and pitch, rudder pedals to control yaw, and throttle controls to adjust engine power. The control yoke or stick design can vary between aircraft, controlling different axes of movement. Secondary controls allow for finer control and include trim wheels to relieve constant pressure on primary controls as well as flaps, slats, and spoilers to alter wing shape for takeoff and landing.

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    Primary cockpit controls include the control yoke or stick to control roll and pitch, rudder pedals to control yaw, and throttle controls to adjust engine power. The control yoke or stick design can vary between aircraft, controlling different axes of movement. Secondary controls allow for finer control and include trim wheels to relieve constant pressure on primary controls as well as flaps, slats, and spoilers to alter wing shape for takeoff and landing.

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    Cockpit controls

    Primary controls
    Generally, the primary cockpit flight controls are arranged as follows:
    a control yoke (also known as a control column), centre stick or side-stick (the latter
    two also colloquially known as a control or joystick), governs the
    aircraft's roll and pitch by moving the ailerons (or activating wing warping on some very
    early aircraft designs) when turned or deflected left and right, and moves
    the elevators when moved backwards or forwards
    rudder pedals, or the earlier, pre-1919 "rudder bar", to control yaw, which move
    the rudder; left foot forward will move the rudder left for instance.
    throttle controls to control engine speed or thrust for powered aircraft.
    The control yokes also vary greatly amongst aircraft. There are yokes where roll is
    controlled by rotating the yoke clockwise/counterclockwise (like steering a car) and
    pitch is controlled by tilting the control column towards you or away from you, but in
    others the pitch is controlled by sliding the yoke into and out of the instrument panel
    (like most Cessnas, such as the 152 and 172), and in some the roll is controlled by
    sliding the whole yoke to the left and right (like the Cessna 162). Centre sticks also
    vary between aircraft. Some are directly connected to the control surfaces using cables
    others (fly-by-wire airplanes) have a computer in between which then controls the
    electrical actuators.
    Even when an aircraft uses variant flight control surfaces such as a V-tail
    ruddervator, flaperons, or elevons, to avoid pilot confusion the aircraft's flight control
    system will still be designed so that the stick or yoke controls pitch and roll
    conventionally, as will the rudder pedals for yaw.[2] The basic pattern for modern flight
    controls was pioneered by French aviation figure Robert Esnault-Pelterie, with fellow
    French aviator Louis Blriot popularizing Esnault-Pelterie's control format initially on
    Louis' Blriot VIII monoplane in April 1908, and standardizing the format on the July
    1909 Channel-crossing Blriot XI. Flight control has long been taught in such fashion
    for many decades, as popularized in ab initio instructional books such as the 1944
    work Stick and Rudder.
    In some aircraft, the control surfaces are not manipulated with a linkage. In ultralight
    aircraft and motorized hang gliders, for example, there is no mechanism at all. Instead,
    the pilot just grabs the lifting surface by hand (using a rigid frame that hangs from its
    underside) and moves itSecondary controls

    In addition to the primary flight controls for roll, pitch, and yaw, there are often
    secondary controls available to give the pilot finer control over flight or to ease the
    workload. The most commonly available control is a wheel or other device to
    control elevator trim, so that the pilot does not have to maintain constant backward or

    forward pressure to hold a specific pitch attitude[4] (other types of trim,


    for rudder and ailerons, are common on larger aircraft but may also appear on smaller
    ones). Many aircraft have wing flaps, controlled by a switch or a mechanical lever or in
    some cases are fully automatic by computer control, which alter the shape of the wing
    for improved control at the slower speeds used for takeoff and landing. Other
    secondary flight control systems may be available, including slats, spoilers, air
    brakes and variable-sweep wings.

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