One of the more common ways to give an aircraft benign stall characteristics is to limit how much up elevator is available. Aircraft are very sensitive to this setting, and a mis-rigged elevator is all it takes to make an old fashioned stall.
Improbable, you say? I remember many decades ago when I was a solo student shooting touch and goes in a C-150 that had just had maintenance. The elevator hit the up stop prematurely during the full flap flare. A burst of power got the nose up and landing was uneventful. Cause was an upside down elevator bellcrank! Admittedly the opposite polarity problem but indicative of what can still easily happen.
We are not driving aerial cars. They are airplanes, and the sooner students learn that they can bite when abused or in unusual situations, the better. Knowledge is power.
Last edited by Machinbird; 17th Jul 2010 at 02:46.