Usage examples (9)

• With the loss of control and non-functional control surfaces, the aircraft began to oscillate up and down in what is known as a phugoid cycle, a flight mode typical of...
• So this 777's autothrottles did the exact wrong thing and made the phugoid worse?
• You don't know it, but you've entered the first stage of a rare phugoid that will take you on a wild roller-coaster ride.
• By 2: 39, the Freddie Kruger autothrottles you think you turned off sense the speed too slow, so firewall to MAX, force the nose up, and start the phugoid rollercoaster...