Turn to Final - Keeping Ball Centered
The absolute best way to find out what will happen is to take an
instructor and go out and do steep turns until you stall it...
Obviously, with adequate altitude...
One of the things you will find is that it is down right hard to stall
the plane in a coordinated turn at a normal approach speed... You will
need to have the yoke back into your gut and ignore all the G's and
the complaining and shaking the airframe will be making... Now, that
isn't to say you can't stall it, but you will have to be blind and
deaf and have a numb butt to do it accidentally...
The other thing you will find is that it is easier to do it in an
uncoordinated turn, but it still takes determination and ignoring the
airframe shaking like a wet dog...
"So, how did Harry Dumbass manage to ignore this and kill himself and
his passengers by turning his fork tailed doctor killer into a lawn
dart?", you ask...
Ahh, I'm glad you asked that...
Ya see, Harry is both high because he is in close and about to over
run the centerline because he is in close... So, being a hotshot
pilot, he chops the throttle, rolls into a hard bank, and stands on
the bottom rudder... About halfway around he realizes his descent rate
has gone off the peg and he is now going to be way short - so he
solves that by pulling the nose up!
Close your eyes and picture it...
The bottom wing snap stalls without so much as a warning shudder
(because the horizontal stab is still flying) , they whip over
inverted, and it is all over but the screaming...
denny
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