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Old 15th February 2007 | 10:15
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jamestkirk
 
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slightly off tac

I am just glad that we all are talking about stalling the aircraft.

This is slightly off the subject but related to the above statement.

I have taken PPL holders on check out rides and asked then to fully stall the aircraft. On more than one occasion they kept recovering on the stall warner.

On closer questioning they said that they have never fully stalled the aircraft and/or experienced a wing drop, which is pretty likely with 30 degrees of flap and 1500 rpm, therefore never recovered from one.

Sorry, I should have said most of this is in a C152. Someone was bound to retort with, 'you charlatan, if you do that in a xxxx, you could end up in the ground like a tent peg'.

Just wondering if anyone else has had the same experience.
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