Welcome to Epic Flight Academy’s Private Pilot Ground School! In this Aerodynamics lesson, Certified Flight Instructor Mike Thompson explains how aircraft stability is affected by design features such as center of gravity, dihedral, keel effect, and tail-down force. You’ll learn about longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability and how these characteristics keep an aircraft balanced and controllable during flight. This lesson helps student pilots understand how an airplane’s design directly influences its performance and stability under different flight conditions. #PrivatePilotGroundSchool #EpicFlightAcademy #PilotTraining #AviationEducation #Aerodynamics #LearnToFly 📘 Video Chapters 0:00 – Introduction with Instructor Mike Thompson 0:28 – Longitudinal, Lateral, and Directional Stability 0:37 – What Is Longitudinal Stability? 1:55 – Center of Gravity and Center of Pressure 2:42 – Moment 3:15 – Tail-Down Force 4:39 – Lateral Stability 5:48 – Dihedral 8:32 – The Pendulum Effect 9:38 – Keel Effect 10:48 – Directional (Vertical) Stability 11:51 – Review 🎓 Start Your Pilot Training Journey: Learn more about Epic Flight Academy’s Private Pilot Ground School Course: This course is taught by Epic Flight Academy's own Mike Thompson. Mike Thompson is the author of "Telling Is Not Teaching", which promotes the idea that the “new school” of teaching that embraces electronic technology cannot sacrifice the “old school” of human relationships because the human brain stills learns in largely the same way that it has for millennia. "Telling Is Not Teaching": To begin YOUR pilot training, visit our website: Enjoying our content? Like this video and SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel so we can continue to produce more Epic content! Follow us on social media to stay up to date on EVERYTHING happening at Epic Flight Academy! Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: LinkedIn: Website: