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To: GBA

Stalling? Add power, drop the nose, add power, drop the nose.

How in hell could someone get a commercial pilot license and not be trained to the point of instinct to react properly to a stall condition?


16 posted on 02/19/2009 6:03:30 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: 6SJ7
Stalling? Add power, drop the nose, add power, drop the nose. How in hell could someone get a commercial pilot license and not be trained to the point of instinct to react properly to a stall condition?

Did you watch the video posted above? If it was a tail stall, the reaction has to be opposite of a normal wing stall. If it was a tail stall, pulling power and pulling the yoke is absolutely the right thing to do.

The horizontal stabilizer is a wing that produces downward lift. If it stalls, the downward lift to the rear of the aircraft goes away, leading to a nose-over, and the tail stall is worse with higher power.

22 posted on 02/19/2009 6:21:25 AM PST by Big Giant Head (I should change my tagline to "Big Giant penguin on my Head")
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