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Old 3rd May 2016, 17:35
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Shaft109
 
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Yes - agreed the Immediate action of pitch down is far more important.

As an experiment after this accident I took a G115 up to clear airspace Nr Clitheroe and set up a climb at 4000' in the T/O configuration at 68Kts. After carb heat I throttled back and tried to maintain the climb attitude to see exactly what happens.

Suffice to say I counted literally to 3 and the aircraft stalled immediately with hardly any 'conventional' warnings and entered a hard wing drop to the left- although I didn't allow it to start spinning.

The main lesson was how it differed from other stalls that I'd tried - it just stopped flying basically - the aggressiveness was surprising. At 300' you'd have no chance.

That was my main lesson that I still remember.
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