I'm a relatively low hours PPL and found during my training the stall exercises difficult from a fear aspect. I did the recoveries required fine in my test but I still get very concerned when I'm flying with an experienced pilot/instructor who tells me they are going to show me how the aircraft reacts when it stalls. Since getting my PPL I've chatted with a few pilots of varying experience who all recommended doing some spin recovery training to try and overcome my fears/concerns and think I would benefit from this advanced training.
The problem with recovering at incipient are two fold.
On the fear front the biggest fear is a fear of the unknow recovering at incipient leaves a big dollop of unknown and this is where the poster of this thread IMO has a problem.
"What if I do not recover at incipient, mess up on my own or even worse enter a spin"
A good session with an aerobatic instructor in an aerobatic aircraft will allow the student to experience chucking it about and abusing the aircraft so he can see for himself what can happen and get used to it!
When pilots stall unintentionally it will happen at a time when their full concentration is taken elsewhere and hence the incipient bit will be totally lost! The First thing the pilot will know is he is in a full bloodied stall.
Hence while recovery at incipient is VITAL so is experiencing and being comfortable with full stalls and spins.
The last point to make is a identifying a spiral dive and a spin.
So many confuse the two and both require very different recovery methods where does incipient come in that equation?
I see a good comparison in driving a car! The student is taught to drive safely etc etc etc and told if you loose it the car may over steer or understeer but they are never shown or allowed to experience these things.
First time it happens for real the poor sod understeers straight into a brick wall.
On a skid pan they can understeer, oversteer and slide to their hearts content eventually becoming so confident they can play the steering at will to control both.
As an ex racing driver those skills learnt back then have saved me on a number of occasions in ordinary road driving since.
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