What is a flair (aviation)?

Answer 1

a flare, is basically setting the aircraft is a nose-high attitude to land. Its rounding out the aircrafts at the bottom of the approach, just before you touch down. Its stops the decent, and allows for a (usually) gentle landing. It employ's a slow-flight technique, and it also involves ground effect. Its a complicated answer with a lot of factors involved.

Answer 2

the flare is the point of the landing process, at which the aircraft is about 50 feet over runway and is past the runway threshold. the pilot will give the plane a nose up attitude and slow descent to about 100 ft per minute. the nose of the plane flares up. also a nose heavy landing could cause the nose gear to break. also fighter jets have flare decoy dispenser. pretty much just a ball of heat and light that distracts the incoming missile from the fighter to the flare.

Answer 3

a "flare" is a maneuver that pilots execute to bring the plane out of it's descent and land the plane (hopefully, gently) with the main gear touching the runway first, then the nose gear, this is to help settle the aircraft on the runway by bleeding off airspeed instead of descending in a nose down attitude (which will make you crash obviously.) next time you go to an airport take notice how the aircraft settles on the runway even though it may look like they are climbing because of the nose up attitude.

hope this helps

Answer 4

You are talking about a "flare"... although it is the same word as the "light sticks" that are burnt in the absence of light or electricity, you are most likely talking about the maneuver that a pilot makes to ensure that the rear "main" gear of the airplane makes contact with the runway first... the flare is usually started about one wingspan above the runway in a GA airplane and about 50 ft. in larger planes... This helps bleed of some excess airspeed and induces the conditions for a perfect landing which is touching down exactly at stall speed or stalling the plane an inch off the runway as an old instructor once told me...Anyway... to recap, its what you see when an airplane is coming in to land and has the nose raised to make the rear landing gear touch down first...

Answer 5

jA flair is a maneuver that is used to slow an aircraft dramatically before it lands..Jets and planes normally dont flair unless there is an emerency. But the space shuttle performs a flair every time it lands. The shuttle on approach picks its nose up to about 50 degreeze for a very short time.A flair is a way to use your aircrafts entire bottom as an air brake.... get it?

Answer 6

As it appears you may have misspelled your term, I'm not sure if you mean "flare" or "FLIR." If it's flare, then your question is already answered. If you mean FLIR, then you are talking about equipment used mostly on military aircraft.
FLIR stands for Forward Looking InfraRed. It is a display which uses heat to give the pilot visibility in while flying in darkness. It allows the aircraft to fly in darkness without any exterior lighting.

Answer 7

One item not mentioned above is that when you flare the airplane at landing, it is meant to slow the aircraft down to land at the stall speed.
Ground effect helps to lower the stall speed but you do not want to land the aircraft too fast as it will cause undo wear on landing gear and you still have lift generating due to speed.
The idea is to stall when the wheels touch.

Practise.

Answer 8

If you mean 'flair', it's that with which pilots act, especially fighter pilots. It's a self-confidence and self-assuredness they develop over time from developing skill in one of the best jobs in the world.

If you mean 'flare', it's the landing maneuver the other folks mentioned.

Answer 9

Phase 3(of3)of landing,the increase in angle of attack,just prior to touch-down,ideally,touching-down at stall speed.And,FYI:it's spelled"flare"(happy flying!!!)

Answer 10

Flair is a big bullet which frees light, andlets the lost survivor sot it, so bypassing aircrafts can save him