Originally Posted by
Centaurus
A colleague of mine kindly sent this message today:
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"I managed to check out the reference to stall recovery and wing drop in my Flight Instructor Manual (Publication 45). My one is dated September 1975.
Exercise 9 (Stalling) has 2 references and I’ll quote them here:
Recovery when a wing drops
Use standard recovery i.e., simultaneous use of power and forward movement of the control column. In addition rudder must be used to prevent the nose of the aeroplane yawing into the direction of the lowered wing. The ailerons should be held neutral until control is regained, when the wings should be levelled. In aeroplanes where the ailerons remain effective beyond the critical angle, they may be used to regain or maintain lateral level in association with rudder.
Common Faults
When a wing drops at the stall the student instinctively tries to correct this with aileron. The use of ailerons at the point of the stall must be carefully explained to the student. Even if the use of ailerons at the stall is permitted in the type of aeroplane in use, the student must understand that in some types their use will aggravate the situation.
Clearly there is no mention of "picking up the wing with rudder" in DCA Publication 45 published in 1975. So where did this expression originate? Maybe around a local aero club bar in those far back days - picked up in turn from a beery wartime pilot and soon spread like the Corona Virus..
I found my copy which is a bit later than that (it has CAA logo and says DA 2342(rev5/88) - I assume revision 1988?). It has the exact same wording. I obviously mis-remembered reading this in pub 45. Apologies for the misdirection.
As you say - somewhere this phrase got picked up and has become common.
I wonder if perhaps it started from a student mis-hearing their instructor?
What gets said and what gets heard in a cockpit (or briefing room) can sometimes be quite different - much the same as what I recalled reading once in pub45 years ago and what it actually says...
