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It's difficult to get a "full stall" in the landing in most
lightplanes without banging the tail on the runway; the fuselage
geometry won't allow it.

IMHO, this is why many taildraggers like or benefit from touching down
tailwheel first.

Airplanes like the Zenair 701/801 have been
designed to fix that.

And with the nose high at touchdown, the AOA is
lower than with the nose at that attitude approaching a power-off
stall in the air, since the airplane is likely already sinking
somewhat at altitude, and its flightpath increases the AOA at that
deck angle.

IAITT, I agree but am not sure, I suspect poor wording.

I get the horn blaring at ten feet BEFORE touchdown. Now
we're at a reasonable speed. No float in this situation.

It appears that instructors are increasingly afraid of the
airplanes they teach in. Pretty soon they'll be afraid to teach 30°
banked turns at cruise speed. I think it's a result of the overall
dumbing-down of society, where we are told WHAT to think, not HOW to
think. The media tells us which political leaders to vote for. They
tell us what to think (and what to believe) about various hot-potato
issues. The problem with that, besides making us lazy thinkers, is
that they are trying to redesign society along their own agendas.
Everyone knows that the media is infiltrated by a wide assortment of
social engineers.

I agree. IMHO, Some more benevalent than others, some ignorant, some/most
just lazy, some downright malevolent.

The flight instructors just parrot stuff from the books and
from their instructors, with some urban legends thrown in. They don't
KNOW from experience; they just REPEAT something they were told. So
they end up scared of stalls and spins and slow flight and little
puffy clouds and five-knot crosswinds.

Far too many are ~231 hr. wonders. IMHO the little bit higher rates charged
by more qualified (and often greyer) instructors is very good value. Mine
made me comfortable (and most enjoy playing and exploring) with the top left
of the envelope.

Dan

Where is your home airport?

Happy landings,