BPF
Your format for teaching stalls is excellent as posted above as well as teaching to identify an impending stall and stopping it developing into a full stall.
Sadly and this is where I am concerned with teaching to recovery at incipient is the fact that in accident situations the aircraft goes beyond incipient.
The pilot is so distracted as in very poor vis turn to final that he fails to watch airspeed and increases bank to get the centreline.
In that situation the pilot may miss indications of an impending stall and find that the first he realises is the fact that the aircraft has fully stalled.
Hence while being taught to identify early indications is very important so is recovery from a full stall with minimal height loss.
The same goes for a full spin! It is important that a pilot knows when an aircraft is in a spin and in a spiral dive as recovery methods are very different yet a pilot untrained in recovery from either cannot be expected to identify or recover from either or even identify an aircraft changing from a spin into a spiral dive (the recent PC12 crash)
It is when the pilot looses the plot that he looses the aircraft hence why beyond incipient is so important yet not given enough importance nowadays
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 4th August 2012 at 23:51.