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Old 1st February 2008 | 07:02
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apollo85
 
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Danger Oh reallllly!

- homeguard
What student or pilot is going to inadvertently place the aircraft inverted leading into a spin as described ! I assure you it will never happen
Im not sure how much instructing you have done in your time...but here is some food for thought.

Again not knowing your experience or "type" of student you are teaching has a lot to do with the events you will face as an instructor. I worked at a sausage factory which cranked out 100 indian piltos a year (no racism intended!), but each culture and age, be it asian, indian, anglo etc etc bring different abilities and situational awarness... how about this one.

issue 1:
I was doing a company check on a PPL guy who had 200 hours! i try to say as little as possible on the first cct as i like to see what they bring to the table- You do a practice EFATO - at 200 ft they lower the nose (preety happy about this at that stage) the student then put their head inside the cockpit and decide to do abbout 40 bloody checks.... (you dont say a thing coz you wanna see how they manage it - be it wrong or right!) they then say "going around" - at this point we are 100 ft off the ground and they have lost concentration and are slowly pitching the nose up ad the stall warning is going (i am prepared to take over at any second - still witing for him to realise!) i say "where were you planning to land????" - the student proceeds to tell me he is going to land back on the runway!!!) - i am in complete SHOCK at this stage at his answer, this was followed almost suddenly by a violent pull at the yoke as he ACTUALLY tried to land back at the runway!! NO JOKE! AND YOU CANT SEE HOW A STUDENT COULD EVER GET YOU INTO A SPIN! add it up. 100 ft off the ground, 5-10kts off the stall and the student tries to pull a 60 deg steep turn back to the runway! - YOU WANNA HOPE YOUR STRONGER AND FASTER AND THEY WILL ACTUALLY LISTEN TO YOU WHEN YOU SAY TAKING OVER! GOOD LUCK!

issue 2: take your student out in a c182 completely loaded to the brim (use water tanks if you dont have pax) - the idea being to show them why we dont use full flap in a 182 when at MTOW - Now when you do a go around at MTOW with full flap the 182 has a viloent pitch up which if you are not on straight away i can promise this will advertanly lead to a stall, followed yb a spin, very low to the ground! - again easy to recognise if you see it coming - but had you not known it would do this your in for a v. big suprise!!!

anyway - instrctors add your stories and comments spo homegaurd can understand the 4 million ways a student can get you in trouble so he is a little more careful when taking a student out!

oh one more - on take off - you dont see a bird and your student happens to and panics, they of course jam back the yoke in a climbing steep uncoordinated turn - again i hope you've got fast reflexes!
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