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Music quitting's this is Rob chief flight instructor for vents for comm and after this lesson hopefully you won't say what a drag now to keep the video at a reasonable length I'm going to go through this kind of quickly so Falls and rewind as you need to and if you still have questions my contact information will appear at the very end let's start with a little vocabulary words altitude well that's how high you are of course if you're in Denver you're higher than most of the rest of us, but that's another story entirely there's more detail to altitude that we'll get into later but for now height above the earth is good enough for starters when you climb you gain altitude you go higher losing altitude flying lower heading back toward the earth that's all referred to as descending level flight is what you're doing when you're maintaining a constant altitude you're neither climbing nor descending accelerate well does it mean so go faster in this case the gain airspeed and landing gear well those are the planes wheels now the main topic of this lesson is the four main forces of flight when we talk about making an airplane fly there are four main forces we need to be aware of and they each act upon the plane in a different direction in the previous lesson we covered lift that's the upward force a wing generates as it moves forward through a stream of air we also talked about thrust which is the pushing power that the plane's engine generates that's two out of the four main forces of flight lift pulls the plane upward and for us two pushes it forward so now let's talk about their opposites first the opposite of lift which is weight that pool for plane down towards around just like it does apples pianos anvils your cell phone whatever now you can also call that gravity, but we tend to call it weight because that allows us to quantify it to put it in terms of a number, and we're going to talk about that more in the next lesson but lifting weight counteract each other and that's very important to keep in mind the heavier your plane is the more lift it needs to take flight when you have more lift than weight the plane climbs it goes higher when you have less lift the weight causes the plane to descend to fly lower we talked also in the last lesson about how to manage and regulate the amount of lift your wings produce and at a certain point tilting the wings up higher will only work until the point where the air flow stalls the amount of whip drops off and your airplane essentially turns into an oddly shaped brick we talked briefly about thrust in the last lesson — that's the pushing power that your airplanes engine is producing that could be in the form of a propeller and pushing air backward like a fan or a jet engine which compresses the air lights it on fire and blasted out a hole in the back, or it could be a turboprop which is kind of like those I'm not kidding its I've always found it kind of odd but whatever so regardless of the mechanism thrust...