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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.