Originally Posted by
mad_jock
Why they have both had the nasty designed out of them.
The C152 mushes and the PA28 does something which isn't really a stall as such because you will never get the AOA across the whole wing past the critcal angle.
Both of them in a training sense will never really teach you what a true stall is.
Both are pretty boring aircraft to be honest designed for the mass market and to mostly stop idiots from killing themselves.
Which they do very well - near-zero fatal accident rate in both types. The tapered wing PA28 comes out slightly better than the C152, but there's very little in it.
As a tourer, I really do like the PA28. But, as you say, both are very well designed to be safe and boring.
G