Roger Long wrote:

Actually, that is exactly what I am practicing. When I look at how much
work and intent is required to stall a 172 I can't imagine doing it
accidentally. What I can easily see happening is letting speed get too low
while close to the ground and suddenly discovering that I have to tiptoe out
of the situation without dropping the nose while possibly maintaining some
directional control due to surrounding terrain.

Ah. Different strokes, then. It's pretty easy to stall a Maule at low power settings
if you don't pay attention, but you'd have to be asleep to not notice. They tend to
buck a bit before they stall. You *can* get a pretty high descent rate at about 1.3
times the stall speed with full flaps, but the plane isn't mushing, and it handles
pretty well.

George Patterson
If you don't tell lies, you never have to remember what you said.