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Old 22nd May 2016, 12:32
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Picking up a stalled wing with full rudder no aileron.

Chatting to a bunch of PPL's at an aero club bar the other day when the subject came around to stall recovery technique taught by their various instructors.

Each one said their instructor had told them to never use ailerons to level the wings if one wing happened to drop at the point of stall but instead to apply full rudder to cause the dropped wing to skid in the direction of rudder and so pick up lift which automatically levelled the wings without using aileron.

Where does this strange theory come from? An old war story perhaps? I would have thought that full rudder to "pick up" a dropped wing at the stall would have the potential to lead into an incipient spin in the direction of full rudder?
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