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Wing drop recovery at the stall - killing an old myth.

An instructor at Moorabbin mentioned that the standard wing drop at the stall recovery technique taught at GFS was that the student locks the ailerons central at the point of stall then picks up the dropped wing by applying rudder with sufficient force and duration to skid the aircraft into level flight. Only when the wings are levelled in this manner is the student taught to relax and use ailerons in the conventional sense.
This myth is still perpetuated from decades ago where the instructor course teaching was to "pick up a dropped wing with rudder." It is surprising that a well established flying school that prides itself on graduating pilots good enough to join Qantas, permits such a curious method of stall recovery from a wing drop. Certainly all the flying training books currently on the market and in past times have never recommended this technique of forced skidding at low speed. The technique published in most reputable flying training manuals requires the pilot to use sufficient rudder to prevent the wing drop from increasing while simultaneously applying forward stick to break the stall and applying aileron at the same instant to level the wings. The same technique applies to just about every aircraft type.
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