Originally Posted by
Arm out the window
That's particularly concerning, seeing as it's such a fundamental thing. What are the reasons for it, would you say? A few possibles that spring to mind are:
- instructors not confident enough
- instructors inexperienced and poorly trained
- not enough emphasis on it in syllabuses
- box ticking rather than robust teaching
- a few canned scenarios taught but not related to some likely real world gotchas
Not suggesting these are the causes, just throwing a few out there. Certainly if any instructor doesn't understand stalling and how to at least teach it to a decent basic level then I'd hate to send my child out with him or her for training.
Arm----
All of the above. And a couple more.
There is a reason why low speed loss of control is close to the top of the list of "most probable causes", and as Lookleft points out, it is not limited to GA/Rec.A.
Again, I have to point to the FAA for doing something effective, with its emphasis on control on low speed flight. Very few AU pilots I know would pass an FAA PPL flight test, on this sequence alone.
Tootle pip!!
PS: The above remarks are NOT LIMITED to PPLs.