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Old 1st May 2002, 23:43
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Tinstaafl
 
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My training & experience is that it's wrong to try to 'pick up the wing' with rudder for a stall recovery.

The intent should be to stop yaw ie control the heading, not "raise the wing".

If HDG can't be controlled then a spin recovery technique is more appropriate.

As for being frightened by the process, then maybe the student was introduced to it too severely? My approach is to start with the most benign stall I can set up then, as my student's confidence increases, I progress to more 'interesting' varients.

The key is to progress at the student's comfort rate, not your own. If that takes more than one flight then that's OK. As instructors we all have some mental idea of what we think 'should' be a normal rate of progress. This fails to appreciate that every student is different.

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