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Old 22nd Dec 2015, 11:49
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You have explained what to look for, how to recover, and......they do it! Brilliant, they are now fully trained to recognise and escape from any stall {Tick}.

BUT, Will that cadet pilot be able to instinctively do the right thing six months later, on a dark and dirty night when they are not expecting to stall and have not been primed to react correctly? Over to you, Training Captains.


Excellently out. 100%. And it's not just stall training = tick. But there have not been too many occasions, recently, where the same fault in piloting skill has crashed an a/c. It really does need a fundamental review; as does the basic AB design of anything to do with the stalled condition. That includes how the a/c became stalled in the first place; what the pilot saw and felt, and what they did about it. Somewhere everything is not quite right. Improvements need to be made, but where and to what?
In the past if it was possible to connect a hydraulic unit the wrong way round and it caused a crash the root cause was researched and the threads or diameter of connectors changed. "it must not happen again." was the cry. A simple fix saved many lives, and this philosophy has carried forward. Is that way of thinking still prevalent with this repeated fault?
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