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Y'All,
I very much agree with Vaughn Simons approach to stall recognition. I
found that I could greatly decrease a student's apprehension about the
'stall' by introducing them to the low power-on oscillating stall series
in a
C-150.

From 'clean' level cruise we would reduce power to 1500 rpm and continue
holding altitude at that power
into the stall which usually shows with one wing or the other dropping.
This is corrected not with the yoke
but by using the rudder to raise the wing. We would work the rudder as
needed to raise the wing and break the stall until it required lowering
the nose. The series could be repeated over and over within a 100'
altitude margin.


I agree with this 100%. Every pilot should be very good at using rudders to
raise a dropped wing in a stall. I also think the stall should be "barely"
broken and the plane recovered this way -- as opposed to a subtantial drop
in the nose to recover.

Danny Deger