Stalls??

On Feb 13, 1:50*pm, "Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote:

Your comment about not knowing the plane has me curious. In fact, most
of your post has me confused as regards stalls.
Cheers
Ol S&B

I'm mostly an inde CFI so I don't have the benefit of knowing the
planes I'm going to be instructing in. Although the Cessna & Piper
brands normally stall about the same, the higher performance singles
often have individual personalities. For instance I can jump in one
plane and do stalls that are very tame and jump into another with a
serial number only a few off and end up inverted (I know this from
experience ). So the first time you stall a customer's plane you
want to be very careful, especially if you are the first CFI that's
done a full stall in the plane since the last rigging.
I picked up a Mooney from a Mooney Service Center after some control
linkage work. They actually have test pilots fly their aircraft before
releasing them back to customers. I met with the test pilot because I
knew they did a lot of flap rigging and asked him how it stalled
afterwards. He said "Oh, I don't stall them, but it flew straight as I
dropped the flaps". He then put on the helmet and jumped on his crotch
rocket. Full stalls, to the point the nose pitches down, seems to be a
thing of the past in high performance planes now. Again, teaching at
the official prof courses, we are prohibited from doing them.

-Robert, CFII