Originally Posted by
Shaft109
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.
You have to get the stock forward IMMDITELY the engine quits on EFTO.
The aeroplane has low inertia (it's slow), and it's nose high. An immediate stall is a heartbeat away. That's why we train for it. Pavlov's Dogs.... There isn't time to think about it. Just DO it. It worked for me (I've always wondered if it would) and I suspect it would for most. Very sad it didn't in this case.