Smith, I wasn’t there so I don’t know for sure but I would imagine that although the instructor was concerned in particular about your power on stalls, he would have also been concerned about your general handling abilities. You may have seen some argument on these pages about US students requiring extra hours with an instructor when returning to the UK – well the reverse is true insomuch that either way you have to convince an instructor who doesn’t know you that you are safe to be set loose with his/her clubs aircraft.
The fact is that the instructor doesn’t want you to bend the aircraft or heaven forbid kill yourself. Be patient, extra instructor hours will benefit you and for sure the instructor and aircraft is cheaper in the USA than in the UK.
The advice given by BEagle is the best you are going to get
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-which is why we NEVER teach people to try to 'pick up a wing with rudder'! Just keep the a/c in balance at the stall; recovery technique is to maintain full power and move the control column centrally forward until the stall identification ceases. Then - and only then - level the wings and recover to normal flight.
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The only thing that I would add is that you should move the yoke gently forward. I did fly with somebody who was having the same problems as yourself and I did identify that he was not keeping the ball in the middle at the approach to the stall. Certainly it should be easy with practice to keep the aircraft level in the stall using only the rudder if you are not struggling to keep the aircraft level with the ailerons when the stall occurs(but don't try this without an experienced instructor on board). It is essential that you fly the aircraft with the ball in the middle all the time since an uncoordinated stall or turn at low speeds can have some odd if not predictable and potentially dangerous consequences!