Bad flight charachteristics in demo

[Schatzi]

Originally posted by scottydawg
Dang, I'll have to check that out.  I don't mind flat spins, makes you harder to hit.

Stall recovery is a very important skill and can be easily practiced .


Things that help you regain control:

- Nose down!
- rudder opposite spin
- Chop throttle (sometimes "playing" with throttle carefully might be required)
- retract flaps if they are down (while they add lift at slow speed, they keep you from regaining steady airstream on your wing)
- as little aileron input as possible - none is best (same prob as flaps)


Things that might help, but only use if you cant recover otherwise:

- turn off engine (i cant tell you why, but it sometimes helps)
- drop gear for a second or two (the drag seems to stabilize the plane)

[TexMurphy]

In fact intentional stalls can sometimes be very usefull.

For instance when your e-fighting someone and you push your plane as high up as you can to store away the E you can, if you know where the envelope is, use a controlled stall to help swing your nose around to get into the decending part of your manouver.

Thats something you cant ever do with the stall limmiter...

Tex

[airspro]

Triming your elev down helps also , alot in a Mustang , we learned the hard way