Aviation English: 'coordinate', 'regimes' and 'attack'

[Liqichao]

hello,
here is the sentence: The pilot must coordinate angle of attack and thrust in all speed regimes if the airplane is to be held level flight.

I am totally stupid for this sentence!

would you please explain more about 'coordinate', 'regimes' and 'attack' here?

thank you for your answers

[Molly]

Maybe these will be useful to you, L.

aerofiles.com/glossary.html
keypublishing.com/glossary

[Yankee]

Hi Liqichao

You need to look at "angle of attack" as one unit with a specific meaning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_attack

"Speed regime" is also a specialized term. As I understand it, "speed regime" refers roughly to the combination of things needed to achieve a certain type of speed.

As I understand your sentence, it means the pilot has to control various different aspects of flight all at the same time, and has to ensure that these different aspects work together in such a way that the plane remains level.
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[Diverhank]

The sentence can be rewritten as: "To hold the airplane in level flight, the pilot must adjust angle of attack and thrust appropriate for the flying speed." Does that help?

For an airplane to be in level flight, the airplane thrust has to be equal to airplane drag and the lift to be equal to the airplane weight. You adjust the angle of attack to change lift. You adjust thrust to overcome the drag.