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Old 6th May 2011, 05:27
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rh200
 
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Not sure how relavent it is, and whether its possible in a large jet, but an interesting thing happened to me in relation to stalls. Many moons ago, like a lot of young people when doing flight tests, I was always in a rush to get out of the stall in the tests or in practise, usually making the whole thing messy in the process.

One day I was at a small country town being tried out on their aircraft by their CFI, and he noticed my "sloppyness" in the stall recovery, which he took as being "frightened of the stall". He basically got me to hold it in the stall and not recover, whilst holding the wings level with rudder. We did this for a not insignifigant amount of time. I could imagine some scenario where if we hit the ground the vertical speed was large and the horizontal low.
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