I don't need the book, I have tried all speeds, nothing seems to work
Interesting (i.e. depressing, if not worrying) comment from a pilot of a relatively sophisticated craft such as the Cherokee Six.
To me it betrays a serious deficiency in understanding of what is actually happening aerodynamically. The mantra slow=bad, fast=good, is taught so routinely during initial training, that students (later PPLs and more) often never get their heads around the idea that slow can=good in certain circumstances. E.g. landing on a 400m runway.
One technique I use to to try to enhance students' intellectual understanding of what is happening to the airflow, lift, etc., by asking them visualise the air as a coloured, weighty fluid, and to try to see, feel and hear what it is doing in every regime of flight, what is happening to the angle of attack, and to describe it to me in physical (non formulaic) terms. I spend plenty of time getting them to fly various manouevers in the slow flight regime. When they see it doesn't fall out of the air, they get more comfortable with very precise speed control in the landing sequence.
Re the rudder: fruit for much discussion! I defy most successful PPL candidates to explain why it's needed at all... What are your specific thoughts on that forgotten control, pilotbear?
