"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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"birdog" wrote in
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Here again I am appalled at the comments. Disclosu Old, old
ex-pilot - learned to fly in the '40's.

Did no one ever hear of walking the rudders down? It's a coordination
exercise. Power on, you pull the nose up to about 60 degrees from
horizontal and walk the rudders all the way down, preventing the plane
from falling off to eithor side. After years of flying, I still did
'em just to test my own reaction times. When learning, it was also
great practice in spin recovery, too.

Man, am I outdated! A 40 hour freshly licensed pilot with a fear of
stalls was unknown in my day.


Yep. also called a falling leaf. I taugth them as did the guys I learned
from .


Bertie

The falling leaf is fun, and a great exercise in picking up a dropping wing.
I like to do them along a road to maintain heading.

Happy landings,