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T ax i a n d T ak e O ff You should hear V1 – ROTATE – POSITIVE RATE OF CLIMB
When hearing ROTATE, pull on your yoke to lift the airplane
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When hearing POSITIVE RATE OF CLIMB, retract the landing gears
While flying the aircraft manually, maintain a correct climb angle by keeping the pink bars aligned in the centre of the PFD. Here for example, you can see that my rate of climb is too high as the aircraft symbols Πare way too high the horizontal pink bar. This could lead to a dramatic reduction in speed and possibly stall. In this case, push on the yoke to reduce the rate if climb.
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AP pressed:
Passing 400 feet or so, engage AUTOPILOT by pressing • AP key
• NAV pressed:
Immediately engage lateral navigation mode by pressing Ž NAV key VNAV pressed:
Engage vertical navigation by pressing • VNAV key. Monitor that the modes are engaging correctly on the PFD.The aircraft is now flying automatically, except for the speeds that we still control manually increasing or decreasing the throttles.
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