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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote in
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Blueskies wrote:
Every flight in a light GA single should end in a full
stall...right
as the wheels roll on to the runway...Unless folks know how to
handle
the plane in a stall, they will not learn to land correctly (I
know
this will start the flames!)
I had just started with a Part 135 cargo outfit and was doing the
initial training in a C-402. The check airman asked me for a
stall.
I gave him a stall. I thought he and the other new hire were
going
to
****.

"Didn't you understand I wanted a stall? Give me another."

So I did. Just like before, the plane got pretty mushy and then
it
broke cleanly. Once again, I thought they were going to ****.
They
were visibly uncomfortable and I had no clue why.

Finally the check airman said, "When I ask for a stall, I expect
you
to recover before it actually breaks."

"Well, why didn't you just say you wanted an 'approach to a
stall'",
I
asked. "What's the problem with doing a full stall in the 402?"

"We hever do full stalls in a twin", he said. The other guy
agreed.
I can't see any reason why you couldn't either. Did they pass you
BTW?


Bertie

In my multi-engine check ride (in a Baron B55), when I did the
requested
stall, the left wing dropped quite suddenly, and for a nano-second I
thought that we would end-up in a spin. It's been a while, but I
seem
to remember that we were not that high either. In fact, the
evaluator
complimented me on the recovery, adding that if I had not recovered
it
right at the start, we would not have had time to do so. That was
quite
a scary moment. Even scarier, in all the practices I had done, I
had
never experienced such behavior.


Well, a real good reason for getting familiar in more docile
airplanes,
eh?


Bertie

Yep, luckily spin training was part of the curriculum when I was
getting
my PPL and commercial licenses.

Part of your school's curriculum, obviously! Unless you;re very very old
and got a BE23 back in time.


In fact, spin practices in the school
Beech Sundowner where a lot of fun, some of my best memories from the
training.


Yeah, I never really liked doing them all that much, especially when
someone else is doing them, but they really are essential learning.



Bertie