1972,
Thanks for the encouragement - hope you get to grips with them quickly.
No, my FI didn't specifically stress aiming to lose 100 feet or less - in fact when he demonstrated the stall recovery he lost about 200 feet himself, although that was perhaps due to the fact that he didn't recover from the stall immediately, but held the aircraft in the stall for a few seconds so that I could feel what the stall was like and observe the high nose-up pitch and altitude loss. I expect that I'll be doing a lot more stalls (that was only an introduction really), and perhaps then the emphasis will shift to minimising height loss.
I found doing stalls fine (I had expected them to be more dramatic), and the recovery procedure quite natural, but then I've only done very simple stalls in straight and level flight. Having read this thread, I should be aiming to lose less height and I've got a lot still to learn. Hopefully I'll be able to do some more stalls soon, so that I'll be able to put what I've learned here into practice.
Angus
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