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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:10:53 -0400
From: Tom Winsor <altom@provide.net>
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If a wing drops it means you're uncoordinated.   One wings stalls slightly
before the other one.  The right rudder requirement that you mention is still
needed throughout the recovery of a stall because you are still in a
high-power/high angle of attack situation.

Many students pitch the nose up too violently and bleed off the airspeed too
quickly.  You end up in a very nose high attitude when the plane stalls and
consequently a violent stall break.  If you're not perfect on the coordination
you'll always have a wing drop on you.  Try just pitching up to an attitude that
you know that will lead to an eventual stall and wait for the airspeed to slowly
bleed off.  The stall break will be much more tame.

Invertdspin wrote:

> During depature stall practice I've had a couple of instructors think I was
> entering a spin.  A 1,500-hour pilot told me that  my power-on stalls
> involved a lot of wing drop.  Here is my question:  If I do a power-on stall
> and fly a continuous heading, how can I possibly prevent the above scenario?
> Flying a fixed heading requires the coordination to shift the rudder
> application to the right, resulting in a left rudder requirement in the
> event of a stall.  I was taught to do this from the beginning.  I can
> recover a full stall, full right-rudder(out of coordination) stall in 150
> feet of vertical space.  I actually think this is good practice.



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Thomas C. Winsor


