Hey all
I am just wondering if part of the difference in techniques here is that different countries expect different things in the stall.
By that I mean that in the US and Canada where I flew during training you were expected to go to a full stall until it broke i.e full stall. From when I did my JAA training you went to the initial stall indication i.e recognition, buffet etc.
From my limited understanding of the matter using the aielerons to recover at the buffet is not as much of a problem as using them when the aircraft has fully stalled.
I also think that the different stages of the stall have to be used when you are talking about them i.e. entry, recognition, full stall, recovery. As talking about what you are doing without each section being explained can be misleading.
I have seen my students attempt to use aieleron instead of rudder when we are fully stalled and we seem to go upside down and start a helical pattern toward the ground just above stall speed. That requires use of rudders to stop it as well as in some aircraft a puch forward on the column to break the stall.
One of the teaching methods that we used if the student was not using rudder was to get them to sit on their hands and the instructor would then move the column and they would have to use their feet to control the aircraft through the full stall process.
I also think that some of the problem, and I am not having a JAA versus the rest of the world thing here, is that some of the JAA courses teach the students to fly a little trainer aircraft like a big jet and the two of them are completely different.
Aside from stalls I have seen some weird teachings on other items as well:
An example of this is when I was sitting in ground school in the UK and the instructor was trying to tell me that it was OK to use aieleron to recover from VMc. That may be fine in a big plane but in a small one that is going to make for a bad day.
So I may be wrong and I usually am but thought that this may explain some of the differences.
-273
Last edited by minus273; 4th May 2004 at 19:35.