Stalls and Thoughts

wrote:
How much of a new students time is spent
flying in slow flight at the low end of the performance envelope?
Isn't that where all the nasty things can happen?

I spent a fair amount of time, probably close to an hour or two in
slow flight. Maybe a little longer.

I don't think it's the case that slow flight is where all the nasty
things can happen. A stall can happen at any speed in any flight
attitude, and may be worse at higher speeds in certain attitudes than
low speed, upright, straight and level.
This is true. Stalls at 1g are seldom the issue. Accelerated stall is
the stall that will kill you. Pilots are well advised to go WELL beyond
understanding stalls with the airplane at 1g. A good look into the realm
of stall over 1g and in ALL flight attitudes, especially cross
controlled is time well spent.

--
Dudley Henriques

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:09:24 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote:

wrote:
How much of a new students time is spent
flying in slow flight at the low end of the performance envelope?
Isn't that where all the nasty things can happen?

I spent a fair amount of time, probably close to an hour or two in
slow flight. Maybe a little longer.

I don't think it's the case that slow flight is where all the nasty
things can happen. A stall can happen at any speed in any flight
attitude, and may be worse at higher speeds in certain attitudes than
low speed, upright, straight and level.
This is true. Stalls at 1g are seldom the issue. Accelerated stall is
the stall that will kill you. Pilots are well advised to go WELL beyond
understanding stalls with the airplane at 1g. A good look into the realm
of stall over 1g and in ALL flight attitudes, especially cross
controlled is time well spent.

Those are fun in the Deb. They can give you a whole new outlook (or
attitude).:-)) They were still pretty much a non event in the
Cherokee 180 at least with practice. The Deb left no doubt as to
whether the turn was coordinated or not when it stalled and which
way. :-))
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com