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Sylvain wrote:

Mike Ash wrote:
Ah hah, that makes sense. Given that the stick shaker had activated,
they should have known it was a regular stall and performed a regular
recovery. A tail stall would have happened abruptly with no stick
shaker. Is that about right? Makes sense if so.

The thing though, at least according to the FAA video on tail stall thing
(it's on video.google.com, search for 'Tailplane Icing') it seems that
tail stall also manifests itself by odd pitch feedback on the yoke... I am
really wondering if there is any clear cut way to identify tailplane stall
from main wing stall as easily as you make it sound...

Well, I was just summarizing what I was replying to, to see if I had got
it correct.

In any case, it seems that, if there is not a clear-cut way to
distinguish between the two types of stalls, some way needs to be
created or else these aircraft are too dangerous. (Either that or it
needs to be made impossible to stall them at all.)

Maybe this is just my small aircraft experience misinforming me, and
stalls are rare enough that the potential for a screwup when they happen
is not something to be excessively worried about?

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