How do pilots make turns while taxiing?

Question

are they using foot pedals or something else?

Answer 1

The rudder pedals do most of the work on small planes. Some have steerable nose wheels and tail wheels hooked to the rudder pedals. Castering wheels, nose or tail require differential braking with a burst of throttle in some cases. The original Ercoupe 415C used the "steering wheel" just like a car. It had no rudder pedals.

Large aircraft use a tiller which is a small steering wheel on the left of the pilot. It steers the nose wheel hydraulically.

Answer 2

Light aircraft depend on the foot pedals to turn the aircraft while taxiing.  (A few may have a steerable nose wheel).

Larger aircraft rely on the tiller, which is a small wheel, to the side of the yoke that turns the aircraft while on the ground.

Also, I have heard of larger planes turning by using differential thrust or differential braking as well, but the tiller is more commonly used.

Answer 3

On light aircraft the foot pedals are used. On most larger aircraft there is a control k**b in the cockpit that is controlled by hand.

Answer 4

ya

Answer 5

Rudder pedals that cause the nose-wheel and tail rudder to turn respectively~

Answer 6

To answer your question I would have to know what type of aircraft you would like to know about.

The brakes are used for slowing, stopping, holding, or steering the airplane.  And in some cases the brakes are used for all the steering such as a tail dragger.

Light airplanes generally are provided with nose wheel steering capabilities through a simple system of mechanical linkage connected to the rudder pedals. Most common applications utilize push-pull rods to connect the pedals to fittings located on the pivotal portion of the nose wheel strut.

The rudder pedals are the primary directional controls while taxiing. with the pedals may be accomplished through the forces of airflow or propeller slipstream acting on the rudder surface, or through a mechanical linkage to the steerable nose wheel or tail wheel.

Large aircraft, with a need for more positive control, utilize a separate power source for nosewheel steering. Even though nose wheel steering system units of large aircraft differ in their construction features, basically all of them work in approximately the same manner and require: (1) a cockpit control, such as a wheel, handle, lever, or switch to allow for starting and stopping the swiveling movement of the nose wheel and to control the action of the system; (2) mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic connections for transmitting cockpit control movements to a steering control unit on the nose wheel (3) a control unit, which is usually a metering or control valve; (4) a source of power, which is, in most instances, the airplane's hydraulic system.

Additional information can be found in the following FAA manuals:

FAA- H8083-3

AC 65-15

AC-65-9A

AC 65-2D

Answer 7

To go one further,

Older Tail Wheel Airplanes, there was no nose wheel or rudder peddal controled steering. Steering was done by using differential braking and differtianal thrust.