Post trauma suggestions?
This is embarrassing. I am a female Flight instructor with about 4500 hours, accumulated over about 15 years of flying. I race bikes, kayak, and have hitchhiked solo throught Russia. I consider myself brave,and not a whiner normally but I have a hurdle over which I cannot jump. In 1992 I was giving a lesson (about emergency procedures, no less) when the C152 committed suicide, the victim of a solidly plugged fuel filter. We were over hilly terrain, and at about 3500 AGL. I performed all emer. procedures and pre-crash procedures perfectly and both student and I emerged unscathed. The A/C, of course, was totalled. The FAA and NTSB exonerated me, and praised my performance. I began flying again with the chief pilot the next day, and have been flying since. HOWEVER...the sound of the stall warning horn squeaking on and off all the way down (which is what happens when the engine dies and you maintain a nice slow rate of descent)remains burned in my brain to this day. With every passing day, stall training with my students becomes more difficult for me. I have disengaged the stall horn, tried coaching myself, bullying myself, everything down to aromatherapy. Why, after nearly ten years, cannot I get over this fear of stalls, when I NEVER had it before? Any suggestions? Thanks... <img src="frown.gif" border="0">