Fond du Lac County Airport · Runway 36

Jumbo Flight School

Captain ·

Your airplane

Paint
Trim
Tail number

Wings

Family logbook

    Sky
    Weather
    Sound
    Flight helper
    Log Jammin' Radio
    Flight line
    Nose up is
    Motion

    The radio

    Radio
    To talk
    Max talks
    The controls
    • ←→ roll the wings
    • ↓ nose up, ↑ nose down
    • WS throttle up and down
    • AD rudder, and steering on the ground
    • F flaps down a notch, V up a notch
    • G landing gear
    • B or Space brakes
    • Space, Enter or X fire the tag gun, in the gun range and in combat training
    • C camera, P pause, M sound
    • T hold to talk on the radio, let go to send
    • I the real weather, right now, at the nearest airport
    • J next station on Log Jammin' Radio, K stereo on and off, - = volume
    • L the flight line and the path ahead, on and off
    • N the map: near you, or the whole region
    • A game controller works too: left stick flies, triggers are the throttle.
    • On a phone or tablet: hold it sideways like a steering wheel. Tip it to turn, tilt it toward you to climb. The throttle is under your right thumb.
    Pilot words
    Knot. One nautical mile an hour. Pilots and sailors measure speed in knots. Rotate. The moment on the takeoff roll when the pilot pulls back and the nose comes up. Flaps. Panels on the back of the wing. Down, they let the airplane fly slower for takeoff and landing. F puts them down a notch, V brings them up a notch. With the radio on you can also call for them, the way a captain does: “Max, flaps one.” Stall. The wing is tilted up too far, or moving too slowly, and stops lifting. The fix is nose down and more power. PAPI. Four lights beside the runway. Two red and two white means you are on the right slope. More red is too low. Flare. Lifting the nose just before the wheels touch, so the landing is soft. Feet per minute. How fast you are going up or down. A soft landing is under 200. Traffic pattern. The rectangle airplanes fly around a runway: upwind, crosswind, downwind, base, final.
    Back to the boardThe flight school shirtsThe wooden JumboRunway 36 points north. Oshkosh is up the lake, Sheboygan is over the hills to the east, Rosendale is out west, drawn street by street.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.