Crossed Controls Stall?
....fat-fingered and hit Send by accident. To clarify:
In a skidding, cross-controlled turn, particularly in a low-wing, the
root of the inside wing is in the shadow of the fuselage and is not
generating lift. The inboard wing is thus closer to a stall.
IF the plane stalls in that condition, the low wing stalls and drops
first, and you've already got 30 degrees of bank in, you'll be at 50,
60 or 90 degrees before you even have time to react, and you're losing
altitude.
If the high wing stalls and drops, on the other hand, it's going to
drop through wings-level before that wing becomes low, giving you more
of your precious remaining seconds to recover.
That's all you need to know. If you're inside, low wings stalls
turning final, you could very easily die before you recognize the
problem.
The rest is just hangar talk, and it's particularly dangerous because
you don't want to spend the last five seconds of your life reviewing
all the physics theories you've heard.
Chris G
Commercial Pilot, CFI
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