Need some advice for new pilot in training

Slow to 1.2 Vs, pitch up and add T.O. power, the plane won't
gain to much altitude before the power on stall.


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"Christopher Parker" wrote in message
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|I am having a similar issue with the stall training and I
have seen my
| instructor perform the same technique you mentioned with
the power on stall,
| but he has not explained how he achieves it. Now I know
how he does it, but
| I still have a question. How do you prevent excessive
gain in altitude if
| you do not pitch high?
|
|
|
| "cjcampbell" wrote in
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|
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| Bubba wrote:
| Hello everyone,
|
| I'm sure you probably read at least 50 "newbie"
messages a week and I
| apologize in advance for this one. But as the subject
reads, I'm a new
| pilot in training. I've only been flying for about a
month now, but I
| only fly once a week, so really, I've only been up
four times now. I
| feel comfortable with my instructor and confident in
his knowledge and
| experience, but I have to admit, learning to fly is
much more difficult
| than it sounds/looks.
|
| So far, I feel confident in my ability to pre-flight
the aircraft, taxi
| on the taxi-ways, and take offs. I feel pretty good
about those three
| things. In other words, I can get myself in the air
and establish a
| steady altitude and fly (which I really enjoy).
However, my instructor
| is now showing me "stalls." These scare the living
hell out of me!!
| We've done power-off stalls for two sessions now and I
know what they
| feel like and can recover from them ok, but I really,
really don't like
| these.
|
| Also, last session, my instructor introduced me to
landings. Now, my
| log book only has about four hours of flight time in
it, so you can only
| imagine how this went. I'm really surprised the
Skyhawks landing gear
| held up to my abuse. Plus, for my first attempt, I
was trying to land
| with an unbelievable cross-wind. The wind was blowing
from right to
| left and from what I can tell, my instructor had the
right rudder pedal
| pressed all the way down. Again, this was scary as
hell. I'm still
| amazed we didn't crash.
|
| So I guess my question would be this: Can any of you
guys offer some
| advice on how to get through stall training and
landings because right
| now my confidence is shot.
|
| Thanks in advance,
| Terry
|
| Stalls: do them until they are fun. :-) Actually, you
are not the first
| student who did not like stalls. Check over on
rec.aviation.student and
| you will find that out real quick. In fact, you will
want to sign up
| over there because this is just the beginning of
questions that you
| will have that the folks over there will help with.
|
| Okay, you are uncomfortable with stalls at first. I
didn't like them,
| either. Most people don't. One way I help my students to
become more
| comfortable with them is I make the students hold on the
yoke by the
| center stem only. This keeps the student from turning
the yoke and
| banking the plane. Then, instead of recovering
immediately, I have the
| student just hold the airplane in a stall and keep the
nose straight
| and the wings level using rudder only. Do this with
power off stalls
| only, of course. I make a game out of it: how long can
you keep the
| wing from dipping? Pretty soon the student realizes that
the airplane
| is not going to do anything that he doesn't allow it to
do.
|
| Power on stalls are pretty easy to recover from. Most
students pitch
| too high and get too abrupt a recovery. As long as your
airspeed keeps
| coming back you will eventually stall. Once you do
stall, just relax
| the back pressure a little; too many people think they
have to push the
| yoke forward. You don't, just relax a little and the
nose will come
| down enough to break the stall. You will find that you
can move in and
| out of a power on stall just bobbing the nose up and
down a little. Try
| to see how little movement you can do it with.
|
| Now, you might think that messing around like this you
might get into a
| spin. Well, what of it? You have your instructor along
and he is
| supposed to know how to recover from mistakes like that.
Even so, it is
| unlikely because what I have you doing is just hovering
on the edge of
| a stall. Hanging on to the center of the yoke is also
going to keep you
| from making inappropriate aileron inputs.
|
| Usually when a student is having trouble with landing he
has not
| prepared well enough with slow flight and ground
reference maneuvers.
| Granted, the student begins landing almost from the
first lesson, but
| serious study of landings should begin only after the
basic work has
| been mastered. I usually hold off on landing practice
until just before
| solo, but that is still about half the pre-solo work you
have to do --
| crosswind landings, recovering from landing errors,
no-flap landings,
| etc.
|
| Look for these common errors: not looking far enough
down the runway,
| pulling up the nose too soon ("fear of runway"), and
poor airspeed
| control. Never practice more than three landings in a
row before having
| your instructor demonstrate another one. It helps to
keep from
| developing bad landing habits.
|
| Don't worry about the Skyhawk's landing gear. For
certification they
| drop the plane from something like 20 feet and if the
gear doesn't
| break, it passes. I can almost guarantee that you will
hurt yourself
| before you hurt the gear, with the exception of the nose
gear. If you
| must make a bad landing, at least don't drop it on the
nose gear. It
| just is not built to take it. Neither is the propeller,
engine, or
| firewall, all of which can be easily damaged by landing
on the nose
| gear. So don't do it.
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