Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
Plenty of us have performed, or taught, stalls in the landing configuration.
Just because the most common exercise with students is "recovery from the first symptom of the stall" doesn't mean that one can't, or shouldn't, actually stall it sometimes.
G
Totally agree. But the OP question was specifically about the biannual checkride. In that context, I would expect the exercise to be about the approach to stall, not about the stall itself.
One tiny thing about stalling in the landing configuration though is that quite a few aircraft have lower G loading limits with flaps down (typically only 2G). If you stall in the landing configuration, get into a wingdip and then mess up the initial recovery, you may end up getting pretty near, or even over that limit. Not saying it can't be done. Just saying it's something to consider when you do this exercise.