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Old 19th May 2012, 15:00
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FullWings
 
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What I do teach is how to recognize the situations where a departure from controlled flight is a real danger using a variety (of) scenarios. The bottom line is I want to instill an instinctive reaction of stick forward and rudder as required to arrest any yaw for any possible inadvertent stall.
That pretty much sums it all up for me.

I come at this more from the gliding end than the power one but it is still just as true. There have been many long-winded treatises written about stalling/spinning and the training (or not) involved with both. Some years ago, a well-known gliding instructor and aerodynamicist wrote a seminal short article called: "Stop pulling the stick back!", which said most of what you needed to know in the title...
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