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title: Community Aviation Blog | Roll, Yaw & Pitch
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# ![](https://blog.communityaviation.com/hubfs/Group.svg) Roll, Yaw & Pitch

![](https://blog.communityaviation.com/hubfs/Rich%20Stowell/Effects%20of%20the%20Controls/Hero%20Graphic%20-%20Old%20School%20Effects%20of%20Controls.png) 

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##### [Effects of the Controls How were you taught to perceive the effects of the flight controls? I got my private pilot certificate in 1984. Thinking back, I don’t recall specific instruction on what roll, yaw, and pitch should look like.](https://blog.communityaviation.com/learning-to-aviate/effects-of-controls)

[Nine Principles](https://blog.communityaviation.com/tag/nine-principles) [Roll, Yaw & Pitch](https://blog.communityaviation.com/tag/roll-yaw-pitch) [Motion](https://blog.communityaviation.com/tag/motion)  5 minute read ·  Dec 30

##### Topics

- [Motion](https://blog.communityaviation.com/tag/motion)
- [Nine Principles](https://blog.communityaviation.com/tag/nine-principles)
- [Roll, Yaw & Pitch](https://blog.communityaviation.com/tag/roll-yaw-pitch)

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###### [![](https://blog.communityaviation.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-04-17%20at%206.24.36%20AM.png) Think, See, Fly in 3D Rich Stowell · Apr 17](https://blog.communityaviation.com/think-see-fly-in-3d)

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