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Old 8th Aug 2009, 14:49
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protectthehornet
 
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One of the saddest things:

When I taught flying, I demanded my students read, "Stick and Rudder". Simply put, when you get into trouble in an airplane...push forward on the stick and you will be OK.

So...sure, if you did this six inches above the ground on landing, it might not work great.

Sure, if you are trying to maintain altitude, or fighting windshear...might not work.

BUT...a stall...a regular stall, is simply more fully controlled with the ''push forward'' advice.

There is no free lunch in flying. IF you are stalling at 1500 feet agl, you might not recover. But there is no wisdom in making the stall worse by pulling on the controls.

Flying on the shaker, or whatever term you would like to use, is a mistake in training in my view. Again, I'm not talking about windshear recovery.

GET out of the stall first...then worry about your altitude (which you should have been worried about before all of this happened).

Stall recovery and Windshear Recovery should be seperated in training.
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