Post-maintenance flight tests are essential for verifying aircraft safety and functionality after maintenance, especially significant work or avionics upgrades, often mandated by FAA regulations like ...

Any time you change a flight control’s mass, it negatively affects the speed at which the flight control can flutter. The mass of a flight control can change due to drain holes getting plugged as well ...

From our very first flight lessons we were taught to check for “full and free correct movement” of flight controls. Every preflight, whether it is for a normal flight or a post-maintenance test flight ...