Originally Posted by BEagle
TurboJ, I respectfully contend that the FIC instructor was an utter ar$e! If you do not control the a/c attitude and balance when applying full power, then stall recovery may well be delayed. Delaying application of full power will certainly increase the height loss during recovery.
I agree with you that a recovery with power reduces the altitude loss but if we teach students to apply full power when the stick is still forward the situation may become dangerous. A friend of mine died with a C152 because they stalled and applying full power the aircraft spinned.
For this reason I want that my students learn to:
1) reduce AOA and only after that
2) apply full power
Usually in the first recovery the student will lose a lot of altitude. But after 3 or 4 recoveries he/she take confidence with the sequence, full power is really close to nose down, and the altitude loss will decrease.
Ciao!!!
Rosanna