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Old 13th May 2011, 11:57
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Yep. You use rudder and elevator because those are the only two flying surfaces that are almost certainly not stalled.

You don't use ailerons to correct the wing dip during the stall because your wings are stalled. Using the ailerons may worsen the situation. Although "modern" designs are so that the inboard portion of the wings stall first, and the outboard section last. So to an extent, in those designs, ailerons will remain active up to and into the stall.

You do use ailerons after you've broken the stall though. First roll to the nearest horizon, then pitch up to recover from the dive.

Don't pull up and roll at the same time though. This leads to the "wing root bending" effect, where the wing root on the upgoing wing is stressed because of both the pitch up and the rolling moment. In extreme cases this may lead to excess g stresses which don't register on a g meter or elsewhere, and thus hidden defects.

Probably not relevant when you do a proper recovery from a simple 1G/S&L stall in a well-behaved aircraft, but good training for aerobatics and/or stall recovery in nasty types.
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