Flying Basics, straight and level:
Pitch attitude controls altitude
thrust controls airspeed
This for prop, jet, rocket any type of propulsion in fixed wing aircraft, but only on the front, right side of the thrust versus speed curve.
Left side of the curve- opposite. This because of negative speed stability, where a given power setting doesn't have one but two correct speeds, and the aircraft would always fly away from the desired speed on the left side..
Last edited by opherben; 12th Jun 2011 at 10:54.