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Old 22nd Apr 2018, 16:30
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tescoapp
 
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There is no difference between dealing with a stall be it a RC aircraft, glider, microlight, SEP,MEP, turboprop or Jet be it BAe 146 or a swept wing 747. (we won't get into super stalls with T tails)

All of the above will unstall without changing the power setting by reducing the AoA.

If a pilot is trained from the outset that Stalling has absolutely nothing to do with airspeed and is only a function of angle of attack then stall recovery is very simple logic.

If they think stalling is to do with airspeed then logically they want to apply power thinking they are going to increase it and stop descending.

I might add the airspeed theory was the first one for RAF pilots in WW1 and the procedure if the plane stalled was to put the power high and pull back on the stick as hard as you could. This was universally fatal. Then someone allowed the nose to drop either by accident or on purpose. They survived and then tried it again and survived. They went and told the powers that be what they had discovered and got Court Marshalled for disobeying flying instructions. By WW2 they had dumped the airspeed nonsense.
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