How pilots stop airplanes from hydroplaning on wet runways?

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How pilots stop airplanes from hydroplaning on wet runways?

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What can you say on ELI5 that isn’t taken down for being concise and to the point?

Airplanes are designed to be controlled absent contact with the ground and contact with the ground does not obviate those controls such as rudder, flaps and ailerons. In short, it doesn’t matter as much in a plane if it does hydroplane because it has two system of control.

TLDR: They don’t

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