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In article .com, wrote:
Is it smart to go out and practice stalls on a normal basis? For proficiency and for fun? Yes. No question about it. (I practise spins for fun. Yes, I am in an aerobatic plane (a glider no less) and I am wearing a parachute. It's important for me to be able to recognise the onset of a stall/spin in a glider as in the weak conditions we have here, to stay in a thermal you often have to fly at the ragged edge of a stall in as tight as turn as you dare). -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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Actually, as a CFI I think it is unsafe to *not* practice stalls on
your own. If you understand what is happening during a stall, and have been taught by an instructor who wasn't afraid of them (some are), then there is absolutely nothing dangerous about doing them. I've flown with private pilots who clearly have not practiced basic maneuvers since their last BFR, if then. They are scared of stalls, 'slow flight' to them is 1.8 Vs0, a 'steep turn' is 20 degrees of bank. To maintain my personal proficiency, I try to go up by myself at least once a month, and just do 90 minutes of 'basics'. I advise my students and BFR rides to do the same. Slow flight in particular is very useful in increasing your 'feel' for the airplane. Go up, do some approach and departure (power-off and power-on respectively) stalls. Do some steep turns, and don't let yourself off the hook until everything you do is at *least* PTS standard. The only reason people avoid practicing stalls is because they fear them. If you are properly trained, and perform them at a 'safe' altitude above the ground, there is *nothing* to be fearful of. If you fear stalls, then you need to have some work with a CFI whjo doesn't, and who understands them and can teach them to you. You can see how scaed many people are of stalls by watching your local pilots land; I can't tell you how many pilots I see add an extra 10 knots down the pipe 'just to be safe'. Works fine with a 172 on 5000 foot runway; but it really isn't good airmanship. Practicing the basics (including stalls) is a very good way to improve one's skills. I can't advise strongly enough that it is a *very* good idea to devote some time every month (depending on how often you fly) to just going out and doing the stuff you did in your first 10 lessons as a student. Cheers, Chris |
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jsmith wrote:
From a pilot: Why would you not practice stalls unless you are afraid of them? (If you are afraid of them, all the more reason to practice them.) If you don't practice them and are afraid of them, how will you react when you get into one "unexpectedly"? If you practice them, you will understand how you can get into them and respond appropriately in a timely manner. And at that point, I know how one gets into a stall, I can avoid the stall, and I don't need to practice them anymore. George Patterson "Naked" means you ain't got no clothes on; "nekkid" means you ain't got no clothes on - and are up to somethin'. |
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Good Landings are a result of expertise in slow flight and knowing
exactly where the stall begins...You pretty much need to have a good feel for stalls to be proficient at short field landing and routing full stall landings. There is very good reason that demonstration of approach and departure stalls are part of the BFR. They are critical maneuvers which are intimately connected to the two most "dangerous" times in flying. Yes, I do stalls all the time. Usually alone in the plane and never below 3000 feet. I also learned to do them under the hood and I would recommend that any IFR pilot get appropriate training in that maneuver. |
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"Dave Stadt" wrote in message . .. wrote in message oups.com... Ron: No fear of stalls here, I have done them myself and have even taken a few hours of acrobatics including loops, rolls and spins. I was just curious what the general outlook on doing them on purpose was from the general pilot community and from the flight instructors on here. Flight without an occasional stall or six, sucks. I have done them with abandon starting soon as my instructor years ago gave me the go ahead. Slow flight right on the edge, maybe falling off every once and a while, is the best practice. Do it in the wind, do it when it's rough, do it at night. Know it.... |
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Many years ago, long before I ever thought about being a flight
instructor, I met a commercial instrument rated pilot who flew for CAP and would not do stalls without an instructor. I thought this was ridiculous then. I still think it's ridiculous. Sstalls performed properly in an appropriate aiplane should present negligible additional risk for the proficient pilot. However, proficiency isn't what it used to be and I am beginning to see a risk to solo stalls that wasn't there before. Even a perfectly flown stall has the potential for spin entry (wing drop) if exactly the wrong gust is encountered at exactly the wrong time, and most of us can't fly a perfect stall every time - we are all human and make mistakes. For a proficient pilot, a spin entry is not a big deal in most airplanes. After all, it is only the entry, and most normal category light airplanes easily recover from the entry. It's only once the spin starts to wind up that it becomes an issue. Of course there are airplanes where that's not true - but most of us are not likely to fly one. The issue is - will you recognize the spin entry for what it is and react appropriately? If you have been trained in full stalls, spin entries, spins, and spin recoveries, the answer is probably yes - but these days, many people have not been. In the glider world, it's different. Most privately owned gliders (and even many of the rentals!) are single seat. It's not unusual to send a student with less than 20 hours total time off in a single seater to check himself out. Since you have to make the first landing count, doing some stalls to 'feel out' the handling of the glider is not optional. Because of this, spin recovery training for glider pilots is essentially universal. No, the FAA doesn't require it - but glider instructors tend to be rugged individualists who feel that they know better than the FAA what is necessary - and they tend ot be right. In the light airplane world, things are not so good. While the FAA mandates spin training for airplane CFI's, spins are not generally tested on the CFI ride. As a result, the training is often cursory - as little as three spins of one turn or less each. That's barely enough to start feeling comfortable with the recovery, and nowhere near enough to teach. On top of that, many of today's popular trainers can't be spun. Spin training for the private pilot is no longer the rule but the exception. So we have lots of pilot out there whose knowledge of spin entry and spin recovery is extremely limited. I'm not going to say that those people should not practice stalls solo - everyone has a right to choose his own level of risk. I will say that I sure wouldn't go up in an airplane with one who did, unless I had my own set of controls. I would also not permit solo stalls for a student who hadn't spun. When students practice stalls they somewhat routinely botch them, and that means they're putting themselves at risk of a spin with enough altitude to recover. I consider a spin a presolo maneuver and a prerequisite for solo stalls. As for myself, I don't practice stalls - but when checking myself out in a new airplane, I do prefer to stall it before I land it. Michael |
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wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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"Dudley Henriques" dhenriques@noware .net wrote in
ink.net: wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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