Slow Flight

In our flight training, there is a maneuver we call "Slow Flight" wherein the airplane, known for its speed, travels through the air below its required cruising air speed limitations. To discuss this in technical terms would not only be boring, but it will be disinteresting and alien to the common ear.

However, I could explain this so-called Slow Flight maneuver in simpler terms.

Normally, the airplane, while flying maintains a straight and level "attitude" (meaning it is travelling horizontally through the air), with a corresponding "power" setting which pushes the plane forward. When you change the attitude or the power setting of the airplane, naturally it cannot maintain its straight path. Either it will ascend or descend, depending on where it's nose is pointing.

But in slow flight, adjusting your pitch attitude in the right position (which is pitching up), even if the power setting is below the required settings, the airplane can still maintain a straight and level flight.

Come to think of it... with the right "attitude", coupled with the right "power" setting, you can still perform feats beyond your limitations. Walking head high (like the high pitch up of the airplane) eventhough you're walking slow will still get you there.

As they always say... ATTITUDE + POWER = PERFORMANCE