Most present day training aircraft are designed to ensure stalls are benign - more like gentle nodding of the nose and certainly nothing more than a practically imperceptible movement of the wings. The problem facing instructors on these types is they are forced to fake a wing drop at the point of stall in order to tick the required Part 61 box, both during training and on tests with an Examiner.
So how do you fake a wing drop in aircraft that are benign stallers by certification and design? Unfortunately the fact is there are cowboy flying instructors who happily hack-flick-zoom and rack these poor aircraft into a steep climbing turn, go to full power and kick in full rudder.
All that does is skid the aircraft horribly as it gyrates on one wing while the instructor shouts "SEE - THERE'S a WINGDROP"...while the frighted ab- initio student thinks WTF and goes away having learned nothing.
The instructor ticks the relevant box while the CASA audit officer is satisfied that particular "competency" is also ticked off. No one seems to care that these sort of harsh and totally unnecessary manoeuvres have the propensity to put undue strain on the airframe and associated engine mounts.
Shouldn't these violent manoeuvres be written up in the maintenance release just like hard landings should be, so an LAME could check for hidden damage? Answer? Fat chance of that ever happening as unscheduled inspections cost money.
Last edited by sheppey; 22nd Feb 2020 at 08:59.