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.... BUT why would you ever want to _fly_ so close
to stall? It's really dangerous to be just 10k above stall speed
in any part of the circuit and that speed is not good for anything
in real flight (terrible lift:drag and poor control response)... So
what's the point?

Quite a few years back I flew with CAP where we did endless training of
ground ref manouvers at slow flight. One of the greatest concerns of the IPs
was to lose a search plane because the pilot got distracted when
investigating an item of interest while he was low and slow.