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Old 24th May 2017, 14:33
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Originally Posted by Vessbot
As in any airplane in any attitude, if you want to unload the wing (and move away from a stall) you have to move the stick toward the middle, in order to reduce the AOA.
I should have said "Just let go of the stick to get alpha down." similar to what you said. Now I remember what we used to say to F-18 pilots. My engineering answer doesn't work well for training aids, as in "pitch toward your velocity vector", fine to say on the ground as an engineer, but in flight, just "let go of the stick a second" is easier.
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