Stalls
Clean Stalls – power off are an entry into stall recoveries. They can occur in real life flying, usually when we forget to add power after levelling off from a descent.
Dirty Stalls – are more likely to occur in real life, and most likely close to the ground. We should give our students realistic scenarios when training. Set them up at altitude in various landing phases such as a simulated high flare, a bounce or a balloon and with different flap settings.
For power-on stall training, set students up in take-off scenarios such as a too rapid rotation at lift-off for normal, short and soft field take-off with flaps up or take-ff flap. Set up a situation of pitching the aircraft too high during an obstacle clearance take-off with flap up or take-off flap. A bounce or balloon may result in increased power and an approaching stall or even a stall. Make set up as realistically as possible.
Use your imagination to come up with other realistic scenarios to make the training as effective as you can.
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Spiral Dives
Teach spiral dives as they are most likely to occur. They are usually taught by allowing the nose to drop during a steep turn. Most often they actually occur during a loss of horizon situation- inadvertently entering cloud, during a sudden heavy rain or snow, or during a misty night flight. I set the flight…
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Slow Flight
Slow flight recognition and recovery is an exercise that students must master before getting much farther in training and certainly before getting to solo. All the symptoms of slow flight are symptoms of an impending stall. Reignition and recovery of slow flight will avoid a stall. Soft and short field take-off, if performed correctly, will…
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Range and Endurance
Range should be taught as a planning exercise. The POH should be used to calculate range. Emphasize the use of mixture as part of range. Endurance can be calculated using the POH but endurance is not usually planned in advance. The practical method should be taught as it also considers the current weather, density altitude…
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Climbs, Descents and Turns
Climbs and descents take time to practice. Give students at least 1,000 feet to initiate and practice. Pay attention to rudder use, especially during the climb. Make sure right rudder is initiated at the same time as power is added, and make sure right rudder is maintained during the climb. Give them time to stabilize…
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Building Block Lessons The attitudes and movements lesson is the building block for all our flight training. Take your time with it. There is a tendency to rush on to straight and level flight and beyond. With a new student, there is a lot going on: the pre-flight briefing, the weight and balance and the…
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Forced Approaches
Why aren’t Forced Approached always successful? The student usually does well until final approach. It doesn’t matter what technique or pattern is used to get to the final approach. When rolling out on final for the forced approach, the focus must be on the landing aim point. Just like a final approach for a normal…
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Learning Factors
Intensity Intensity must be used sparingly. If used too often, it loses its effect. It should not be too intense or it may frighten a student. In a briefing room, it may be as simple as using a red marker to emphasize something important or to put eyes in the 2 Os in LOOK. Effect…
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Learning Factor – Relationship Moving from the simple to the complex. There is only one stand alone exercise in the private pilot curriculum – Attitudes and Movements. Everything is built from this. Straight and Level flight is a cruise attitude. You can now add to it trim, rudder use and speed changes. Climbs, Descents and…
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Protected: Attitude + Power = Performance and Slow Flight
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