In article
,
xyzzy wrote:

The way you recognize a tail stall is that pitch control becomes
abnormal when flaps are extended. Plus knowing that you're in icing
conditions.

This still sounds like a total crapshoot to me. You can lose pitch
control during a regular stall, and icing can precipitate a regular
stall as well. Obviously in this case the signs were interpreted
incorrectly. Surely it's not a case of "heads we live, tails we die"?
There must be some way to tell which kind of stall is happening besides
these indications which clearly weren't correct in this case, isn't
there?

I guess there doesn't *have* to be, but it's kind of scary if there
isn't.

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