We went thru recovery from unusual attitudes. That was really alot of fun! I am NOT immune from .......disorientation! After the usual notices about feeling naseous, and quitting the exercise, My eyes were closed, and my head down as low as I could get. I felt the aircraft enter a decending left turn, followed by a climbing right, what seemed like 10 seconds of negative "Gs" (probably only 3 or 4) and then alot of Pos "Gs" some tail wiggling, and he said "OK your airplane". I felt like we were flying straight and level...... I opened my eyes and raised my head. ...................... Surprise!! We were banked 30 deg over to the right, and in a climbing attitude of approx 20 degrees, power was at 1500, and we were sinking. Recovery (via outside views only) I got the nose down first, to regain airspeed, then levelled the wings, and returned to 4000ft. we did it again a few more times, ending up in a level left turn, decending right turn, and a wings level, nose up attitude, no horizon in sight out the front, due to the haze. I recovered nicely from each. {and...No lunch lost} We then tried some stalls, and could not get the 152 it break. It just hung there in space. Engine idling at 800 rpm... I watched the airspeed indicator reading getting very close to Zero knots. Talk about slow flight???? From about the 30 kt indication on down, I kept saying to the Instr. " here it comes..... here it comes.... any second now....... It was quite unbeleiveable! No buffeting.. controls back to their stops. I flew that way for about a minute or more. Looked down at the wheels, and there was no apparent movement over the ground. Will have to call that one the "Cessna Kite flight"
I remember holding a 172 in a stall like that one, it kinda reminded me of a leaf fluttering in the wind!
For me, it was like the instant you sense, you're going to touch down. the plane stops that vibration or maybe buffeting, and the last second or two is just sooooo smoooth! Then..... the wheels touch...
Glad to hear I'm not the only one this is happening to. I always try to maintain perfect coordination of the airplane, and I think that makes it more difficult to stall completely (please correct me if I'm wrong). I've had a number of power on stalls where the plane just seems to hang there until I finally give up.
Hi Tripp, Yes, in a Power on stall, the aircraft seems to hang, and hang, and........... But when you exceed the critical AOA, (which for a time, is still meeting the relative wind without exceeding critical angles, ie; the "Hang" ) during the power on stall, it'll fall right out. This was a Power Off stall Engine idling, @ 200 RPM below ground idle speed of 1000 RPM. Airspeed, near Zero.....(like when Taxiing....) That's what made it weird. Usually, my 152's engine is spinning at 1000 RPM, and airspeed is somewhere around 40 kts, when I stall. Coordination, good or bad, has nothing to do with ability to stall. That's strictly a function of AOA. See: http://flighttraining.aopa.org/members/student_pilot/presolo/articles/1586.cfm Coordination, does though, come in awfully handy, during that time immediately after a stall, when you are trying to recover. You may want to try power on stalls, at 1/2 power, as was suggested to me in an earlier post. The idea is to recognize and recover with minimal loss of altitude. Not to perfect, the angle of climb at which it occurs. Charlie
