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Old 15th Aug 2019, 15:41
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Kemble Pitts
 
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Let's be fair to LAA here, you don't need a POH to take your aeroplane up to 5000 ft and see how it stalls clean. dirty, dirty/turning. You need to be taught to fly properly and you'll then understand that stalling is not scary and its a good idea to know how your aeroplane behaves.

When giving people 'biennials' I always get them to stall straight and turning. Most of them gibber when I show them turning stalls (some for stalls of any sort), some actually sweat, and they are often too nervous to really do it themselves with me next to them. I've often had to complete the 'back stick' pull to get the thing to stall as they just can't bring themselves to do it. Maybe that shows a good degree of self preservation but I'd rather they experienced the full stall and practised the correct recovery and made it automatic.

Bottom line is most (GA) pilots are scared of stalling, possibly because most instructors are too. I do my best to overcome this during the biennial '1 hour'.
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