7 - Stalls and Slow Flight

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Certainly for stalls we need really good weather, because we have to do them at 4000 feet, and the last few lesson have been cancelled with cloudbases as low as 400 feet!</div> <div> .</div> <div> After several cancelled lessons thanks to bad weather, I *Finally* got to do Stalls Part 1 and Slow Flight today (yay!) in really nice cloudless conditions (I had to ask Alistair what all the blue stuff was!) Although the manoeuvre itself was easy enough (and certainly no cause for the apprehension I'd felt towards it), I was alarmed at just how much height can be lost *WITHOUT NOTICING* particularly in the Katana, which has a "benign" stall without much nose/wing drop. The first time I tried it, I thought I was still trying to make the plane stall, when my FI pointed out we'd already lost 200 feet and shouldn't I do something towards recovering!  I guess that's the whole point of the exercise -- you certainly don't want to be doing that anywhere near the ground.</div> <bR> <div> We also practiced slow flying - 60kts and full flaps, which is what we'll need on final approach in the circuit. Tomorrow we'll be stalling in that configuration, and Alistair assures me that the stall is less benign than the clean version.</div> <bR> <div> I was doing the RT calls for the first time, and I have to admit I made a complete fluff up of them! I'd had several sessions on VATSIM, doing circuits at Biggin Hill in FS and doing the calls, and I was reasonably confident with them, I could do them in the car as well, but stick me in front of an actual radio and it was "Golf Muke Bravo.... er.." (and that was after rehearsing exactly what I was going to saw ith Alistair!) Oh well.</div> <bR> <div> Oh, for good measure, I passed the Human Performance exam too -- 90%. Tomorrow we're (hopefully) doing Stalls Part 2 and PFLs. Then the curcuit looms...</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>