"Todd Pattist" wrote in message
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According to my textbooks that's not true. Maximum lift is just before
the
stall. Once in the stalled condition itself, at or beyond the separation
point of the flow of air over the airfoil, lift is lost and "the airplane
ceases to fly." (From The Ground Up, Aviation Publishers, Ottawa, page 35
and Flight Training Manual, Transport Canada, page 75)

You completely misunderstand stall and your misunderstanding
is perpetuated by the complained-about programming. Maximum
lift is just before stall and just after stall the lift is
just about equal to that maximum.

Not relating my understanding but giving close to a direct quote from the
two training manuals I've been told to use for my ground school and flight
training, plus my online ground school materials itself. The phrase "the
airplane ceases to fly" IS an exact quote, that's why the quotation marks.
Those training materials are consistent with the statements that you have
taken exception to that were presented in the TV program in question. You
may be correct and they wrong, but the burden is on you.

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and as you said in another message, the airplane is indeed
falling rather than flying. Thus "at the stall" would be the point at
which
the wing stops producing (adequate) lift, just as he said.

Saying it produces less lift after stall is correct. Saying
it stops producing lift is not correct and is highly
misleading.


So the whole debate is about whether the instructor in question should have
used the words "adequate lift" instead of just "lift." So how many angels
was it you said could dance on that pinhead?