Practice stalls on your own?

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Ok, so say you are post-solo and approved to perform stalls OR you
are a private pilot.

Is it smart to go out and practice stalls on a normal basis? For
proficiency and for fun?

Or are stalls something you should only being doing for training?

I would like to hear from both pilots and instructors on your
thinking of this topic.

Also what percentage of you out there do practice them on your own?

Thanks

You can consider yourself safe to perform solo stalls if you have had
proper training in stalls not only entered from normally anticipated
flight attitudes but also from abnormal entries such as accelerated
and crossed controlled entries.
Competent instructors will make sure you have had this training.
EXTREMELY competent instructors will exceed the book requirement in
stall training and make sure you have had basic spin entry and
recovery as well. With this training in your tool kit, you should be
perfectly safe in practicing stalls solo.

Dudley Henriques


I agree Dudley. My students get this kind of training. I would only
add that to stay safe, keep practicing and get at least an annual eval.
I know every two years is the requirement, but remember the requirments
are minimum standards.

Pilot/CFI/CFII

I'm a great fan of "practicing". I've always advocated to the pilots I've
trained, the adoption of what I call a "never ending training mode" that
treats every flight, no matter how trivial a flight, as a training flight
requiring a serious self appraisal, adjustment in technique, and/or
correction as an ongoing result.
This requires a professional approach to everyday flying that uses a highly
developed habit patterns where a pilot engages in a constant self evaluation
and correction pattern geared toward maximizing his/her performance on a
constant basis.
I like a habit pattern in a pilot that causes him/her to come off a
perfectly executed flight thinking about how he could have made it better.
:-)

Dudley Henriques