How does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?

I was just wondering how a plane can turn completely around the runway.How does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?I am also with Skipper on this one.

If somebody tried turning my nose-gear 180 Degrees it would snap off.



You can put all the thumbs down you want my nosewheel does not turn 180 degrees and neither do most aircraft!How does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?
It depends on the width of the runway, and the minimum "turning radius", or space, that an aircraft requires to turn about face on a runway. The minimum turning radius is established because the nose wheel, or a tail wheel has a limitation on how far it can be swivelled over in order to turn the aircraft. Working for an airline, I have received reports when ramp personnel while towing, or on push back, have turned too tight, exceeded the turning limitation on the nose wheel, and damage to the nose wheel occurred.



There are two main methods of turning an aircraft, that can be used on asphalt runways, or other hard surface runways. One is through the aircraft nose wheel steering, and the other method is applying braking pressure on one main wheel, and increasing the power on the opposite engine (i.e. left brake pressure, right engine increase in power). This method requires a developed skill, and practice.



On gravel runways, using a designated nose wheel steering function is the recommended practice. Using brake and opposite engine power is not a recommended practice, as the increase of power on one engine can draw up sand and other small particles of rock and gravel, resulting in foreign object damage with possible damage to an engine or the aircraft fuselage. As a matter of policy, many airlines forbid this practice.How does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?The nosewheel on most aircraft can swivel over 180 degrees allowing the aircraft to turn on it's own axis. And tailwheel aircraft have the ability to ''unlock'' the tailwheel allowing it to swivel 360 degrees.

All each has to do is lock one mainwheel brake and feed in some power and the aircraft turns as sharply as the pilot wishes.



EDIT

LIST of AIRCRAFT w/180 Degree or better nosewheels.

Zeneith Ch-601

Gumman light aircraft

LongEze

Grummans (AA1, AA5, AG5)

Diamonds (DA1, DA4).

Lake Amphibians

the earliest "straight 35" Bonanzas

all Wipeline amphip floats

Cirrus

Columbia

T28s



And a fair number of aircraft have nose gear that can be manually uncoupled, usually only for towing purposes. But they can be used to turn the aircraft in an awkard situation. All one has to do is flip off a lock.How does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?
As one person said, using asymmetric thrust is NOT recommended by the jet-run hand book. Use equal thrust at all times. Whether or not you can actually make this turn is based on your system knowledge of the aircraft, and information about the width of the runway found in your Jep charts. Now, assuming as someone else said, that the aircraft turning radius will actually allow you to make this turn, what you do is to steer at a shallow angle towards the side of the runway. In the case of the 757 which I taxi, the Captain's seat is actually out in front of the nose gear....so you steer towards the side of the runway and when your seat is actually over the grass slightly, then you turn the steering tiller all the way to the opposite steering stop and apply equal thrust on both engines as needed. If you saw it from the outside, you would see that your nose wheel and left main wheel reached the edge of the runway at the same time....and without going off of the edge of the runway, you then steer as tight a turn as you can....and you should make it just fine.



It's actually amazing how tight of a turn a 757 can make. But it's hard on the tires. If you turn at too fast of a speed with the nose turned hard over, you could scrub the tire off of the rim. If you pivot on a bald spot you could blow a tire....and ALWAYS roll forward several feet before stopping and setting the brake because otherwise you could leave the tires with turning forces still affecting it and it will be horribly twisted and in danger of again...blowing out. So always roll forward straight ahead several feet to relieve twisting forces from the tires.How does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?Use nose wheel steering to turn the nose wheel in the direction you want to go, making sure that you do not taxi off into the dirt. Apply power and away you go.How does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?
1) rudders

2) turning the yoke

3) only use one engine I.E. turning left only power the left engine, right only power the right engine

put them all together bam there you goHow does a plane turn 180 degrees on the runway?
Rudder Peddles can turn the nose wheel.