PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Lateral control at Stall
View Single Post
Old 2nd December 2020 | 22:27
  #5 (permalink)  
Genghis the Engineer
Moderator
30 Countries Visited
25 Anniversary
Veteran: Reserves
 
Joined: Feb 2000
: CPL
Posts: 14,480
Likes: 178
From: UK
ShyTorque, I blame the awful duo of the PA28 and C172, two easy, docile touring aeroplanes that suit the financial model of civilian flying schools very well. Unfortunately they are also far far too benign and forgiving to be good training aeroplanes, and have trained generations of pilots with insufficient respect for what happens if you abuse an aeroplane, particularly at high AoA. There was an issue a few years ago where EASA and FAA went, quite rightly, on a hunt to eliminate "powering out of the stall" from civilian schools where this had originated from a combination of a very dodgy interpretation of requirements in the PPL and CPL skill test / checkride requirements to minimise height loss in the stall recovery, and training aeroplanes sufficiently docile as to let them get away with this.

And it had been going on long enough that students who learned that way had become instructors in their own right - I think it's been stamped out now, but you don't need to think hard about the consequences of somebody trying to do that in a T67M260, or even a Bulldog or PA38, to realise how problematic that had become.

G
Genghis the Engineer is offline  
Reply